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I drove to campus this evening. Library notice came via email today:
\nAnother patron has requested your copy of…<\/i>. I needed to collect the book
\nfrom the office. Right here; I’ve got your Writing Genres<\/i> right here.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Next, I had a whim to swoop up a brick of ice cream on the way home.
\nSweltering weather today in CNY. Drove over to the local P&C grocery store, parked
\nthe Element, and walked three aisles of the store before zeroing in on it<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And then I came home, thinking I might have a dish of ice cream and dust off
\nthe blog with an entry about the Pistons or about Google Analytics or about Y.,
\nthe dog. Instead, my inbox set me back with an email delivering tragic news: a
\nfriend was killed in a car accident in D.C.<\/strike> Tampa over the weekend. She was
\n
\na regular<\/a> at the camp I’m heading to this weekend, a friendly PhD student in
\nsociology, working in urban schools in the New Orleans area until last fall’s
\nhurricane. Simply a really really<\/i> terrific person; a quiet, good-humored
\ncolleague with whom I’d taught many a basketball lesson over the past few
\nsummers.<\/p>\n

Dammit.<\/p>\n

Added (6\/1): I didn’t have all of the details right: more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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