Lost
03/03/2011
My cat has been absent since Wednesday morning. Axé.
On Pacing
02/03/2011
I have always been told I was surely taking too much time with things, must have spent too much time, or must be planning to spend too much time. This is particularly true of teaching activities. If I created the handout I created, it must have taken too much time. If I read a new … More On Pacing
Z Question
01/03/2011
I believe I understand at last why blogger Hattie has said she worries about me. Here is some evidence. Friend: You are going on a research trip to Mexico City. It is not safe. Why do you not take a beach trip to Costa Rica, instead? Z: I have things to do in Mexico. For … More Z Question
On Special Students
28/02/2011
It is seven and I have just gotten home. I ate Ak-Mak and hummus, which I had stored for this occasion since, due to renovations in the kitchen, I cannot cook. I made a salad and I am drinking a glass of wine. I have just realized I am missing one of the films in … More On Special Students
Five Days Without Nora / Nora’s Will
27/02/2011
Axé.
Duncan on H.D.
27/02/2011
The H.D. Book is at its core a polemic–elevating the female and the nonconformist and the heterodox against the institutions of men. One of these institutions was literature. Axé.
Jorge Michel Grau
27/02/2011
Axé.
Papa Grows Funk
25/02/2011
Axé.
sabotage (n.)
23/02/2011
1910, from Fr. sabotage, from saboter “to sabotage, bungle,” lit. “walk noisily,” from sabot “wooden shoe” (13c.), altered (by association with O. Fr. bot “boot”) from M. Fr. savate “old shoe,” from an unidentified source that also produced similar words in O. Prov., Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Basque. In French, the sense of “deliberately … More sabotage (n.)
AX is for Accent
23/02/2011
I have come across a possible solution to all my accent mark problems. AX. Free, open source, works anywhere; it is working for me in three programs so far. Axé.
