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Lest my wisecrack to C. the other day about my resolve to blog just once per
\nweek in the new year prove true, I really ought to get back into a groove with
\nthis business.  One at a time. Fifteen minutes at a time. I’ve run across a
\nfew momentarily interesting links, considered shoving them into this space. 
\nSeconds later, they’re lame.  But there’s always the stuff of life to
\nrescue me from blogthargy. At dinner tonight, for example, over reheated chicken
\nnoodle soup (home-cooked, no less, and stirred up to give an edge to D. in her
\nbattle against the villainous flegm-phunk), Ph. said something witty about
\nchin-ups in P.E.  Chin-ups, eh?  Yep, he said. Scored a 38. So I was
\nthinking chin bar, pull-ups…etc.  "Impressive." And then…"Overhand or
\nunderhand?"  Not even close.  The 21st-century "chin-ups," turns out,
\nsimply involve a measure from the floor to the chin while the back-arching
\nstudent maxes out in an
\nupward
\ndog<\/a> position.  I’m fending off the urge to invoke the presidential
\nfitness testing jokes, relate it to Bushyacation programs such as No Child Left
\nBehind.  Floor to chin, in centimeters.  Thirty-eight, eh? Guess
\nthat’s blogable. Less so: that I tried it myself and managed a limber 44 cm
\n(just getting onto the floor sets my shoulders to popping, flared my knees with
\npain, etc.). Even less so: those tasty flavored Triscuits and the talk about
\n"What sort of Triscuits are they?" Followed by, shrug. Followed by, "Box says,
\nDeli Style Rye." And so on.<\/p>\n

Really, though, I’ve been jamming on CCC
\nOnline<\/a><\/i>, working ahead on the archive, making the PDFs even more
\nportable, running an OCR over their imageforms, touching up the text files, and
\ncranking out keyword sets.  Also, doing a bit of course-developer oblige<\/i>,
\nanswering questions, sprucing up course materials, and so on. And resuming a
\nworkout regimen that spelled body-magic a few years ago. And ordering books for
\nmy final semester of coursework.  And (re)reading through a few articles
\nfor a miniseminar next week (Ede, Logan, Fulkerson, Fleming and Yancey). And
\nsneaking a few minutes of March Madness 2006<\/i> for the PS2.  And
\nreading Scott McCloud<\/a>.  And
\ntorture-eating, piece by colorful piece, through a two-pound baggieful of rock
\ncandy while worrying about my aging, weak, rotting enamel.  And scheduling
\ndentist appointments, etc.  More than I realized, turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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