I’ve been very sick, people. I knew that I would have just enough energy to finish out the semester, and then I would just collapse the moment the last lecture ended. And that’s exactly what happened. I worked on overload this semester, and almost never even whined about it, but there is a limit to everybody’s energy. As a good, responsible blogger, I wrote several pre-scheduled posts on Friday night because I knew I’d be incapacitated for several days after that.
Now I’m conscious again but still recovering. Today and tomorrow, I will have “beauty days” (meaning that I will lie in bed feeling beautiful) in order to recover completely. In the meanwhile, do tell me what I missed while I’ve been out of it. Have we already fallen off the “fiscal cliff”? If not, then why did I just get an email from the Human Resources telling us our taxes will go up because the Bush tax cuts will expire on January 1? Has that been decided in these 2 days that I have been sick?
Also, I now wish I hadn’t placed any Catalonian writers on my syllabus for next semester. If they don’t want to be part of our Spain, there is no reason for us to promote their culture. We will have our Juan Goytisolo and Juan Marse back, thank you very much, and they can have their Carme Riera.
And good news: while I was sick, I was intermittently reading an article about somebody called Fred Halliday who seems to be precisely the kind of Liberal that I had despaired of ever finding: the kind who has the courage to accept that communism has no hope of succeeding and who has an even greater courage to denounce religious fanaticism. If anybody knows anything about him, do tell me whether I should read his books. Of course, the moment I found this guy, I immediately discovered that he recently died. Jewish luck.
As I’m sure you have guessed from the all-over-the-place tone of this post, I’m still sick, so it’s back to bed for me. Feel free to say, ask, discuss, mention anything in the comment section.
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“In the meanwhile, do tell me what I missed while I’ve been out of it.”
Well you missed the monkey in a shirling winter coat who was found wandering around outside of a toronto IKEA store after being separated from the owner. You have to see this video!
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Everybody and his monkey wants to get to IKEA. 🙂
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So, Québec literature should be excluded in a lecture about Canadian literature?
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Every educator should have full discretion as to how to create a syllabus. 🙂
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On this point of view, I agree completely.
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Wish you a fast recovery.
Btw, traditional Jewish chicken soup for sick is a very good choice from science’s point of view too. Especially nice in a cold weather.
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Jewish penicillin, eh? 🙂 🙂
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Congratulations on making it to the end of semester! I ‘fell over’ middle of last week, with ten days of classes to go 😦
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Thank you! This was one long semester. . .
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What did you miss? Well… All across Canada today there are Idle No More Protests going on in front of Legislatures and other public venues. It was started to call out Stephen Harper on making sneaky changes in the federal budget bill which would negatively impact Indigenous communities and disregards signed Treaties between the Canadian government and First Nations. My favourite to come from it is a sign at a protest saying “Stephen Harper sucks moose balls”. 🙂
More info here:
http://www.firstperspective.ca/news/2562-first-nations-vow-to-rise-up-against-feds-lack-of-consultation-on-budget-bill
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The big news here was the settlement between DSK and Nafissatou Diallo. The amount has not been disclosed but is expected to be about $5m. The most expensive bj ever.
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I read that DSK will now have to take out a credit line to pay for this. The guy is such an embarrassment. But then Berlusconi is about to be back in power in Italy.
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One of my posts has been cited in the Human Security Report 2012, Chapter 1 footnote 110. For a complete non-entity such as myself, this is a big deal.
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I mean part 1 Chapter 2.
After 48 years of effort I have finally archived my life’s goal of becoming a footnote to history. 🙂
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“After 48 years of effort I have finally archived my life’s goal of becoming a footnote to history.”
– Ah, enough with self-deprecation, just enjoy it!
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Wow, congratulations!! This is really significant. The best kind of blogging is the one that helps change the world.
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I meant to write “achieved” , but “archived” will do.
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An American woman shares the story of her backyard abortion in the 60ies:
http://annesummers.com.au/2012/11/the-operation-that-made-me-a-criminal/
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