voncookie | January 31, 2009
I’m announcing the creation of a new blog: The New Modernist. I’ve been hesitant to post here my ramblings about Modernism, by which I am thoroughly fascinated. So I bought my own domain and created a space for my thoughts on the period, and my desire for its resurrection (if that’s even the appropriate word). [...]
voncookie | January 28, 2009
1000 posts. One thousand. Mil. One thousand posts since December of 2005. What do I get for 1000 posts? My Google page ranking is 2/10 I’m nearing 10,000 hits since 2007 I have a few subscribers You can Google “voncookie” and get a whole ton of pages My Technorati ranking is still 1, but, who [...]
voncookie | January 27, 2009
Expect that you won’t feel like doing much of anything: working on the Diss, sending out more job apps, cooking, cleaning, showering… Expect that you will periodically dissolve into tears and ask “Why, God, Why?”, probably on a daily basis. Expect that your friends will be there to comfort you until, at the very least, [...]
voncookie | January 26, 2009
Teach at the university level Teach at the university level Teach at the university level and… I’m stumped.
voncookie | January 25, 2009
Consoling myself tonight over some uncorroborated bad news–and therefore not yet actually bad news, just potentially bad news, which is bad enough–I decided to put on a comfort movie or two. The first was The Ten Commandments, which allowed me to smile a bit due to the overwrought script: (regarding the tally of bricks for [...]
voncookie | January 23, 2009
I had a nice talk with someone today about equilibrium, about finding the “sweet spot” where you can hold both uncertainty and acceptance in one hand and proceed with calm through the day-to-day. This sweet spot has apparently eluded me this evening, as I have tried three times now to sleep to absolutely no avail. [...]
voncookie | January 22, 2009
1:40 a.m. Finished both statements and they read like a dream, IMHO. Of course, I may change my mind when I re-read them in the morning and do some significant edits. I still think the Peach Post-Doc is a long shot… but sometimes long shots do happen. I guess for now it is just wait [...]
voncookie | January 21, 2009
My fish, the royal Mr. Dog, has apparently gone on a hunger strike. He refuses to eat unless hit over the head with food, food that he deems worthy of his highness. I have been told that this could be the sign of a fish on the way out, ready for the Great Fishbowl in [...]
voncookie | January 21, 2009
I’m facing a very serious problem: my brain is not working. Because of the plague that I am experiencing right now, all brain function has ceased and I am A-number-one SCREWED. Logic-Brain says: rest, try again later. Panic-Brain says: ACK! Finish proposal NOW! Finish job talk NOW! Can’t think to do either! Red alert! RED [...]
voncookie | January 21, 2009
Welcome to the world under President Barack Obama!!! I spent yesterday morning in a haze of feverish tears, as I have fallen ill with the plague again, and was up nearly all night nursing my illness, but wanted nonetheless to watch Mr. Obama get sworn in. Of course, I nearly vomited when Chief Justice Roberts [...]
voncookie | January 19, 2009
I’m in the PHL airport right now, preparing to head home to Liberal Paradise, where I face an apartment in serious need of a facelift, and a neglected dissertation, not to mention job talks and post-doc apps and 8 million other things to do. I’ve had a very nice time in Hometown, NJ this go-round, [...]
voncookie | January 15, 2009
I walk into Beans today, set down my stuff at my usual table with the electrical outlet next to it. look to my right and happen to notice that there are three girls from my high school class sitting there drinking coffee with a few little kids hovering in orbit around them. But these were [...]
voncookie | January 13, 2009
OK, so I’m at my favorite coffee shop on the East Coast trying to work, and they have done the impossible–they have made me want to run screaming out of the store by playing at exorbitant volumes a CD compilation of Blues music. It is, I’m sure, quality Blues. However, *you* try reading *anything* serious [...]
voncookie | January 13, 2009
Ever since I got a) done with the MLA and b) back to NJ, I have admittedly been in a blogging coma. I can’t seem to shake the lethargy and start posting again. But for all my lethargy with the blog posts, I am finding myself caught in a work whirlwind, in which there is [...]
voncookie | January 12, 2009
I was going to be all stealth about this visit, but enough people have blown my cover that hell, I’ve got nothing to lose. I’m in Hometown, New Jersey. No sense trying to pretend I’m not here. I’m here to get some work done more than anything else, so please don’t take it personally if [...]
