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I parked our second vehicle in the garage for the winter. (So what<\/i> if
\nit’s a two-wheeler, and the foyer is where it’s propped.)  On Wednesday, I
\nasked my students from the Northeast how late into the year it seems sensible to
\nride a bicycle to campus.  Turns out they’re mostly not<\/i>
\nbike-riders.  Except the one from Rhode Island.  He said it’s
\nconsidered risky to ride when the temp dips below 25 F. Today, the wind feels like
\n35 F.  No sense in taking a chance.<\/p>\n

Forgot my book of codes at home this morning and so when the 8:30 a.m. bunch
\nshowed up at the computer cluster, we were locked out.  Crisis averted, I
\nmanaged to track down someone who had the six digit magic pass in her digi-memory–a
\nfancy-pants palm pilot. Probably could use one of those.  Of course, I
\ncould have called D. back at home except that I also forgot my cell phone, and I
\nstill can’t remember our new home phone number after the 315 part.  Mind’s
\nbeen busy with other stuff.<\/p>\n

In mobile technology woes, my laptop–the unforgivable Sony VGNS150–is off, via
\nshipping carton, to the repair tech.  Sometimes it turns on.  Other
\ntimes, no.  Shit breaks; I get that.  But the time I’ve wasted
\nuploading fixes and patches, IMing Sony analysts through two long
\nback-forth-going-nowhere sessions, and shouting numbers into hard-ah-hearing
\nphone bots: agonizing. Timing couldn’t be worse. <\/p>\n

My favorite eighth-grade hoopster didn’t make the cut.  Undersized, I
\nguess, and scrapping with giants.  But I sure was glad to have him on my
\nteam for the four games of four on four we won tonight in Flanagan
\nGymnasium.  Between my high-post living and Ph.’s backdoor cuts, it was a
\ncinch. Grubbing at the lay-up buffet.  <\/p>\n

Returned 37 essays and invention portfolios to 105ers this morning. 
\nPhew! Wrote elaborate responses to eighteen of them yesterday.  I would
\nhave rewarded myself with a blog entry and a Newcastle Brown.  But I only
\nmade it to the Brown. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow: nine essays to read on everything from imagistic argument
\n(continuing Handa) and public sphere-civic discourse (ala continuation of Lakoff’s Moral
\nPolitics<\/i>) plus one more chapter from Gramsci. And those projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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