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Soot<\/a>: The fine
\nblack particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete
\ncombustion<\/i> of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels.<\/p>\n

Six-family apartment building about one block away from home burned through and
\nthrough this afternoon while I was on the hill sitting, observing the diss
\ndefense of a friend and colleague in the CCR program.  The defense was a
\nsuccess(!); the apartments, ablaze.  On the walk home, in the settling of
\nsmoky odor, I strolled through the park. D. and Ph. shared all the fuzzy
\ndetails, but it was clear enough from the blocked street, the piles of rubbish
\non the sidewalk and the smell.  The odor expressed a version of the event,
\nstoried the afternoon in the neighborhood.  Soot as fading, residual
\ndocument.  And nobody was hurt, as far as we know.<\/p>\n

An interruption and a dilemma! Home from an excursion to Blockbuster video–Closer<\/i>
\nand The Incredibles<\/i>, which included a stop at the grocer for a package of
\nbuns and a six-pack of orange-flavored malt liquor.  But it turns out that
\nwe don’t have the Manwich that was supposed to switch the browned burger into
\nthe dinner-stuff.  So?  I suggested to D. that we could drop in a can
\nof soup.  That’s the<\/i> sure-fire recipe I remember from childhood:
\nany-flavor can o’ soup, ground beef, on bread.  Won’t see it on Iron
\nChef<\/i>, but in a pinch….<\/p>\n

No good, that idea.  Going with H. Helper instead.  A solution, at
\nleast.  I have quite a list of to-dos keeping me active through Monday
\nafternoon.  Among them: 1. read and comment on 14 drafts of research
\nprojects from 205ers, 2. read several sections of Barbara Rogoff’s
\nApprenticeship in Thinking<\/i> for 720, 3. draft 4-5 pages of 711 project, 4.
\nrevisit draft of project for 611, 5. write a few paragraphs of critique of
\nmethod(ology), taking J.’s work on alongside White, Certau, 6.  think about
\nN.I. Painter and Robert Connors for a minute, 7. revisions of a short essay for
\n720, 8. develop three-page bibliography proposal for 720.  Three solid days
\nshould get me close.  Ah, and we’ve got tickets to hear Cornell West talk
\nin Hendricks Chapel on campus tomorrow afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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