2008 12 01 tweets
Dozed a little on plane. Landed LAX at 4.45am. In Claremont by 6 am: diner breakfast, failed attempt at an hour's sleep. Dopey beyond belief
Replying to @kfitz
@xina: I am. And my head is just spinning. But I warned my 11 am class of my delirium, and they totally carried things. Excellent session.
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@cgbrooke: Happy birthday, .0137 in advance!
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@xina: I'll be keeping a good thought for you!
I vow to be really, really lazy today. That is all.
Why, oh why, must we have sinuses?
Wondered earlier whether the ability to breathe was necessary to the project of teaching. Turns out intermittent ability is enough.
Replying to @kfitz
@2xlp: in this case, Stoppard's Arcadia, which is differently amusing when read with a code id your dose.
Replying to @2xlp
yes! The impossibility of the project of historical criticism, the imminent heat death of the universe -it's right up your alley.
Replying to @kfitz
@mattbucher: "they" meaning the rest of her family, who have enough evidence to suggest that it can't possibly end well?
Replying to @mattbucher
Good grief. I'm glad to hear everyone's okay!
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@zephoria: Woo-hoo! Congratulations!
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@partsnpieces: Woo-hoo! Congratulations!
Grading like a fiend. Determined to be done with this semester and move onto other projects posthaste.
New blog post: New Toys http://tinyurl.com/6gc2du
Alternately trying really hard to distract myself from the task at hand, and trying to keep myself from getting distracted.
Flight from ONT delayed due to frost on plane. We have to wait for the sun to come up and melt it. I love SoCal.
I'm pretty sure they're lying to us; a Delta flight just started taxiing to the runway.
And an American flight just took off.
Just boarded my 6 am flight at 8.05. Have gone from 2 hrs btw flights to 10 mins. And that's assuming we actually take off now.
Replying to @kfitz
@xina: No dice. Ran from C44 to C40, arriving just as they closed the door. Happily next flight is in a little over an hour & I'll be on it.
New blog post: Firsts in Travel http://tinyurl.com/57fdhm
Replying to @briancroxall
Excellent!
Replying to @academicdave
Keep me posted on #MLAtweetup plans; I'm conducting interviews, but they have to let me out of the hotel room sometime.
Replying to @kfitz
@therefore: welcome back to town!
New blog post: DEVONthink http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/devonthink/
Woke up at 4 am, on the first day in months I could genuinely sleep in. Why? \(No, I'm really asking\. \*Why?\*\)
Turned in the last grade. Making a pot of coffee. Think I'll sit here and read. \(Why does that seem like such a radical concept?\)
New blog post: Transitions http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/transitions/
Dear heater: I recognize that it is 38F outside, and you are unused to this. But this situation is your raison d'être. Pls warm the fuck up.
Nervously watching giant green mass on radar image descending toward us. Good news: only going down to 45 tonight. Frost on wings unlikely.
New blog post: More Fun with Software http://tinyurl.com/a67v55
Wireless internet at home has slowed to a crawl in recent days. Beginning to wonder if my network-extending Airport Express is dying.
Replying to @academicdave
Thanks! @dancohen try http://tinyurl.com/8y38ln
Replying to @bighandsome
made it to town with far less drama than your journey. But will still require beverages.
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except that YouTube only increments view count if you watch the end of the video...
Dammit, UPS, deliver already! That package was supposed to be here yesterday, and my sister will be annoyed with me if her gift isn't here.
Replying to @therefore
I may wind up giving my sister printed pictures of what she might someday receive...
4pm mass, fantastic gumbo at my aunt's, the annual matching pajamas, and now drinks and christmas movies. Not bad even if it 70 degrees out.
I've finally figured out where my holiday blahs come from: zero time alone. Introverts unite \(and then go to your separate rooms\)!
That having been said: happy holidays, all, and may you get all the things you want, and several you didn't even know you wanted.
Got up at 3 am to make 630 am flight out of NOLA. Insane line to check in, but getting thru.
On the plane to SFO & the MLA. See you there.
http://twitpic.com/wu1m - The view from my hotel room. Front desk manager was seriously nice to us.
Replying to @kfitz
@academicdave: I'm going to miss having it this time of year; won't provide the instant xmas escape, and will cut into the January stretch.
Replying to @briancroxall
I'll try to be there!
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v1: funky glasses frames, leather jacket. v2: reading glasses, tweed. v3: fashion circa 1978. Real clue is reading material.
Spent much of today getting ready for Monday's panels. Tomorrow will be non-stop interviewing. ELO cash bar in a couple of hours.
Heading down Nob Hill toward the Hilton. See you in the bar.
Never really got to ELO meetup - ran into old friend I hadn't seen in two years & couldn't get away. Hope there's a second @mlatweetup.
Replying to @kfitz
@mkgold: too briefly, alas - but I hope there'll be another opportunity!
Replying to @academicdave, @mkgold and @briancroxall
knock 'em dead! #mla140
Hey cool! I just got followed by a novelist I teach. Hi, @nicolaz!
Brain is completely overheated from interviewing all day, and needs replacement coolant, preferably martinis.
Still haven't gotten to set foot in a panel -- but will be in three this afternoon.
This morning's first interviewee has shown up -- before the housekeeper is done, before the coffee arrives, before my colleagues...
A busy day of interviews, panels, conversations. Now in my last panel, Joni Mitchell.
Well, that was awful.
Replying to @mlatweetup
sorry to have missed the second iteration, too! My 5pm ran right into my 7pm panel. Grrrr.
Replying to @partsnpieces
oh my god - I hope you're okay!
Have decided the best way to wash the MLA from your brain is driving down the Coast Hwy with the top down. Better than I've felt in months.
Replying to @kfitz
@noradio: how funny! I hope he's doing well.