This is very hard to write, much less post. But you’re probably wondering why there haven’t been any posts here lately, so I thought I should explain why. You may remember that I mentioned an illness in the family several months ago. The family member in question was my father, and there for a while, […]
I’ve arrived at the hotel where I’ll be staying for tomorrow’s job interview at Further School (as opposed to Nearer School, where I interview next week). I don’t want to say more about where I currently am, since the details of job searches are sensitive information, but I will say that the weather’s absolutely beautiful, […]
…with the interview, Dorothea!
Because it’s been ages since I posted anything from the commonplace-book… Four A.M. The hour between night and day. The hour between toss and turn. The hour of thirty-year-olds. The hour swept clean for rooster’s crowing. The hour when the earth takes back its warm embrace. The hour of cool drafts from extinguished stars. The […]
I came home from a midday expedition downtown expressly to listen to the last Met radio broadcast of the season; this weekend it’s La Clemenza di Tito, and we’re now at the intermission. How fabulously dark the end of Act 1 is. The audience digs Anne-Sofie von Otter, and so do I. There are other […]
I have two job interviews in two states a couple of time zones apart, both coming up in the next two weeks. It’s amazing how news of this kind arrives in multiples. I’d be wondering why my (metaphorical) stock mysteriously went up overnight, except I know that the logical explanation is that I’ve been sending […]
I meant to blog this amazing New Yorker story about the Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters, conservation, digital imaging, and supercomputers, but, preoccupied by other things, I forgot. Fortunately, Ramage spotted it too. Also from Ramage: GoogleMontage, a site that creates instant photo-montages by automatically combining images from Google when you feed it some search […]