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Month September 2003

Freelance writing and the historian…

Nice, encouraging piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education today, by a historian turned freelance writer turned professor. As I’m trying to figure out what comes post-dissertation, I’m trying hard not to see things as black and white (i.e. “Choice A will rule out your ability to do B or C for the rest of [...]

Chapter 1 in draft form…

E-mailed a draft of my first dissertation chapter off to my advisors earlier today, and now I’m fighting off a low, gut-level fear that it’s no good, that I’ve wasted the past two weeks of writing. Of course, I know that’s not true, not one bit, but I feel it nonetheless. Interestingly, this feeling is [...]

Eating it…

If you’re in the NY area and aren’t on their mailing list, I’d highly suggest that you check out Eating It, a weekly comedy showcase at the Luna Lounge on Monday nights. Not much else to write, mostly because I wouldn’t be nearly as funny as the roster I saw tonight…

Mazel Tov, Ken and Lauren

Funniest thing of the weekend: Digger and I signed the Ketubah (the Jewish marriage contract) as witnesses, in Hebrew and English. I spend way too much time practicing my signature in Hebrew, so I’d make sure I wrote it well. So the time comes, I step up to sign this simply gorgeous piece of art, [...]

The last one of the season…

Heading out of town for the weekend for the last wedding of the summer – this time, it’s my friends Ken and Lauren. I’ve known Ken since freshman year at Hopkins, and he, Dave, Digger, Liz and I used to hang out late at night lamenting the single life and the plight of the “nice [...]

Two years ago…

…I was sleeping when my housemate Livia knocked on my door and told me to turn on the TV. I remember seeing one of the towers already in flame, then the airplane hit the second. After that, I can’t distinguish what I saw life from the newscasts later. It’s all a blur of images and [...]

The Wired Historian

I so want to teach this class…c’mon somebody, hire me so I can teach this class.

Finished “Devil in the White City”

Well, I actually finished it Sunday. Started Saturday night, finished Sunday night. I’d forgotten how good it feels to just sit down and get sucked into the world of a book, letting it pull you along. I need to read more. As for the book itself, it was a great read, in the vein of [...]

Home decorating…

Favorite bit written so far today: Due to this real-time editing, the very placement of the VCR in the viewing room wasn’t obvious. Because the VCR was usually located by the television set and remote controls were still years away, this often meant sitting within arm’s reach of the television, not the most comfortable way [...]

Great Brooklyn Moment…

So, Jenny and I are walking back after a massive walk (more on that, with pictures, in another post), and we stop off to pick up the Sunday Times and some milk at the corner newsstand. Now, also on that corner is an italian ice stand called Uncle Louie G’s (say it out loud, it’s [...]