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Been a few months since I threw down a comfort inventory. More than a
\nyear<\/a>, in
\nfact.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Somebody’s birthday
    \n\t
    \n\tp-r-e-s-e-n-t<\/a> arrived this afternoon in a U.P.S. truck. I doubt it will
    \n\tbe a surprise, considering she had on a humongous smile and made the baby
    \n\tsign for "What can Brown do for Is.?" <\/li>\n
  2. I have been draftertating. I started in the hardest place–the
    \n\tsection I understand the least. I write on it for a couple of hours each
    \n\tday. And then I have worrying spells<\/i> during which I fret that it’s
    \n\tmostly shit (say…65%). But I press on and write some more. <\/li>\n
  3. Ph. landed a bona fide<\/i> job today. He interviewed on Monday
    \n\tand got the call today. Orientation in just a couple of days. <\/li>\n
  4. This is week seven of the eight-week term for the course I am teaching
    \n\tonline this summer. <\/li>\n
  5. D. picked up a can of Static Guard for me when she was running a few
    \n\terrands this afternoon. Ever since the move, each time I sit down at
    \n\tthe computer, I pass along a static shock. Fzzt! Can’t be good for the
    \n\tdelicate components. And I hear that the dissertation phase of a PhD
    \n\tprogram is an especially lousy time to have computer failures. Maybe if I
    \n\tcould just sit still I wouldn’t have this problem.<\/li>\n
  6. I
    \n\thave a web cam connected to my laptop. It reports to me that I look
    \n\tlike this tonight. And I had an email from the parent of a player who was on
    \n\tthe basketball team I coached in K.C. a few years ago. He’d
    \n\t
    \n\tGoogled me<\/a>. Checked out the Flickr spread with Is. and the rest of
    \n\tus. Know what he told me? It appears<\/i> I haven’t aged since I
    \n\tmoved to Syracuse. Oh, but I have. Most definitely, I have.<\/li>\n
  7. In preparation for a Friday afternoon meeting of my program’s job seekers, I have roughed together a job
    \n\tletter. It is unlikely that I’ll apply to any jobs this year, though,
    \n\tconsidering that we’re not going to scoot off to a new city for Ph.’s senior
    \n\tyear of high school. <\/li>\n
  8. Speaking of Ph.’s senior year, they’re building new outdoor athletic
    \n\tfacilities at his high school this summer. Last night we took a call
    \n\tfrom his coach who asked whether it would be possible for us to attend a
    \n\tdistrict "Facilities Committee Meeting" at the board office this afternoon. 3:30 p.m.
    \n\t"Yeah, sure." The whole point of the meeting: one of the nabors to the
    \n\tproject once saw someone on an ATV stop and take a leak in the woods
    \n\tadjacent to the new sports complex. As a result of this act, he wants
    \n\ta six-thousand dollar fence extension added to protect the suburban wildlife
    \n\tfrom this sort of hooligan behavior. When asked whether anyone in our
    \n\trow had any comment to make, I had none. Neither did Ph.<\/li>\n
  9. Ph. netted a pair of goals in his soccer match on Monday evening.
    \n\tThey won 6-0 even though they started the match with just six players.
    \n\tNot such an even match, I guess you could say.<\/li>\n
  10. Is. has a toy that plays a MIDI version of
    \n\t
    \n\tthis tune<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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