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I just wrapped up the last bit of grading for the spring semester. A restless
\nearly morning, read: what am I doing wide awake at 5 a.m.?<\/i>, allowed me
\njust the amount of quiet time I needed to encode the last few essays, to each a
\nletter.  Forms are due later today or tomorrow–one or the other, but I
\nmust have left paperwork in the office on campus.  Cause for a bicycle
\nride.<\/p>\n

I was slower than usual with grading this time around.  A combination of
\nfactors: sapped, more methodical.  Now there’ll be one week of down time
\nbefore starting in on the Summer I course in genre theory.  The stuff I’m
\nteaching doesn’t begin until June 6, which means the course I’m taking will be
\nsolidly underway when the steepened workload involving the reading of student work
\nhits in mid-late June.  That’s the plan.<\/p>\n

Other: I’ve been thinking about blogging lately, but, being sapped, I figure
\nnow’s as good a time as any to lollygag.  I installed a WordPress site for
\nexperimentation; re-designing it seems a bit tedious though.  I was
\ninterested in using the easily modifiable shell of a weblog for a Site of
\nSelf<\/i> I’m pulling together this summer.  What do they call these? 
\nProfessional sites?  Personal-professional sites?  Vita, teaching
\nphilosophy, syllabi, etc.<\/p>\n

Yet another: Should we move this summer?  Seems like a hassle to switch
\nto another place, but Landlord–who lives clamorously with his energetic dog on
\nthe paper that is our ceiling–has an apt.-mate moving in over the summer, the
\nneighbors, who share the driveway, were loud-banging a second<\/i> basketball
\nhoop together into the late-night hours, and Ph. will be at the high school in
\nthe fall–a high school beyond walking distance from where we now live. 
\nOh, and the hoop wouldn’t be a problem except that the south sideline is<\/i>
\nour relatively new and yet un-paid-for Honda Element.  So when the kids are
\nin the drive working on their cross-overs and sending long-careening rebounds
\ninto the door of the car…eeg.  And I really mean EEG!  That’s the
\nsound for deep down vexation.  No matter how hard I try, I can’t get over
\nthe angst I feel when I hear the basketball pounding the car.  Yeah yeah. 
\nMaterial things and whatever.  But no matter what I do to exorcise the
\nin-creeping aggravations of car-door-ball-shots, I am my dad’s son through and
\nthrough. I can’t block out the irritation I feel so deeply when the ball hits
\nthe car.  So maybe I’ll try moving the car more often (where?). 
\nBecause I’m in favor of kids playing basketball, I have to think of something. 
\nHelp me out, people.<\/p>\n

So moving.  Thinking about it.  For now, just thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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