Inessentials: The Blog

Since some of you have asked, here’s a Dickensian (in length, anyways) rundown of my event-filled three days.
Monday, 3:00am
I wake up with sharp stomach pain, an achy back, and indigestion. This is the fifth or sixth time this has happened in the last couple weeks. It usually takes me hours to go back to sleep. Sometimes [...]

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This is my all-time favorite argument (for now):
A does something good.
B says, “That’s why A is the Antichrist. Because the Antichrist will do good things. Then people will love him. Then, when it’s too late, we’ll find out he’s always been evil.”
It’s awesome not only for being totally fallacious, but it gives B an [...]

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By my count, there are 6 tenure-track positions in English language universities around the world that ask for someone with my specialization (early modern philosophy). There’s also a one-year replacement and two one-year post-docs. There are probably another 20-30 jobs or post-docs that are “open” (that is, they don’t specify a specialty, and thus get [...]

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Nicole and I are currently working on the perfect weekend.
Friday night
Sushi at Miya’s.
Where the Wild Things Are at Criterion.
Saturday
Egg sandwiches and TV in the morning.
Shopping at the outlet malls in the afternoon.
The Avett Brothers in NYC at night.
Sunday could be a tornado and this would still be a pretty great weekend.

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Buy our camera. Only four days left.

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I’ve launched a spin-off blog. Clearly with the large number of posts I put up here, I needed a second space.
Okay, maybe not, but I am trying to indulge my love for popular culture in all forms (especially television) by focusing on that in its own format. So go check it out, throw up some [...]

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It’s been a difficult week here at Yale. On Wednesday morning, news broke that a Yale graduate student, Annie Le, who works in a secured Yale building, was missing. Her purse, cell phone, and wallet were in her office. She was seen on a security camera entering the 10 Amistad Street building, but was not [...]

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Today I locked myself out of the house.
Locked out of the house, locked out of the car. I had Panther with me; we were on our way to her haircut appointment. In my arms I held two large books (Harry Potter 7 and an eighteenth-century treatise on God and evil), a notebook, and my coffee [...]

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Pictures of this summer’s trip to Switzerland, Italy, and beyond are now posted. Click on the links below to see more photos.

Switzerland

Milan, Italy

Florence, Italy

Cinque Terre, Italy

Nice, France and Monte-Carlo, Monaco

London, England

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Nicole and I will post more about our trip in the next couple weeks, but here’s a preview to tide you over.
This is a video of Vernazza, Italy in an area known as the Cinque Terre. We stayed here for a couple of nights and it is now one of our favorite places in the [...]

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