Really, I am a frivolous thing interested only in clothes and songs. So far, I am to be the stage presenter for the following bands: Oliver Mtukudzi & the Black Spirits Bodh’aktan Nimbaya Women Drummers of Guinea Sergent García Mika Karni & Kol Dodi Fatoumata Diawara Shoes I want: the Dansko Harlow, they look much … More Encore des activités
Research today consisted of receiving news that my abstract A was accepted to conference A. My word count for a different, difficult manuscript, now finished and ready to send, is 1466 in the last 24 hours. This was possible because I had been working on drafts of this text and conducting research for it since … More Doctors Without Borders
Mine will be in the undyed color which is much more elegant, but this is the picture available. They are a replica of 1970s style clogs. I paid for them in Swedish crowns — 867 kronor to be exact. I like using the old currencies. I have a receipt from Tjärhofsgatan 21, 116 28 Stockholm. … More Au printemps
I Last week I did no research, spent nine or ten days doing no research, because of work at the university level against certain features of the corporate model. There is a project to severely reduce the number of full professors on academic senate, eliminate the student members, reduce the size of the body generally, … More Rentrée
Down in the sweltering town again, I took off my coat and tie. I stopped at the market and bought a couple of loaves of French bread, a long greasy sausage, some cheese and some tinned sardines because, since Zell and I had only deck passage, we could not even purchase bread from the ship’s … More Langston Hughes sails from Haiti to Cuba, 1932
Axé.
→ Scrub deck, work out, grade three classes → Sand deck → Seal deck → Buy new deadbolt and install → Prepare classes → Chase down roofer → Details on last of study abroad proposals (Tuesday) → Drop off car (Monday 8 April) → Spanish version of abstract → Finish writing letters, including to Mihai … More Les activités
Axé.
My fall class is overenrolled and has a waiting list. Word on the street is that it is going to “kick ass.” The Spanish Professor helped me design it. Axé.
A planned, but not executed paper I have is on Nicolás Guillén. I wanted to write a paper on him that would not be about the themes of race and Blackness and mixture and Cuba and identity and society but that would, rather, focus on images and sound. People forget how complicated the rhythms and … More Nicolás Guillén
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