…and I haven’t posted. I’ve been devoting most of my free time to completing the Henry Luce research. Now that that’s done, I should be around more often, although I do need to get cracking on my Herbert Croly seminar paper for this term. (I chose to write on Croly because I’m intrigued by what Sandel had to say about him in Democracy’s Discontent, but otherwise haven’t really defined the topic as of yet. That’s the task for this weekend.)
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Back to School.
Hey y’all. As I suspected, I’ve been quite busy over here in the end-of-summer, back-to-school crunch. As it is, I’ve completed most of the Luce work, and now need to begin preparing for the upcoming semester – particularly as I’ll be overseeing two (US Hist to Civil War) sections this fall. Right now, it looks like my class schedule will also include a Civil War and Reconstruction colloquium with Eric Foner and a 20th century Intellectual History seminar with Casey Blake…but that may still be subject to change. Also met the new arrivals at a get-to-know-you happy hour and they all seem like a pleasant, well-adjusted bunch. Still haven’t picked out a new Trapper Keeper and lunch box yet…should I go N’Sync, Spongebob, or Lisa Frank?
Dreaming of Me.
Ok, in the past four days, I’ve had dreams involving dozens of old friends, four exes, both my old high schools, three former offices, a very long crew practice, the house I grew up in, and my middle school city rec soccer team. Either my brain is running one of its semi-annual Scandisks, or it’s trying to tell me something. Perhaps it’s a back-to-school kinda thing. Strange.
In a Work Hole.
Hey y’all. Updates have been intermittent this past week due to my catching up with all the work I was supposed to be doing while I was in Hawaii, meaning very long days fashioning history powerpoint slides for a textbook company. Now that that task’s finished, I need to get back to my primary research work, reading through and organizing the papers of Henry Luce and his contemporaries for a professor. At any rate, it’s going to be busy around here right up until the start of term, so I apologize if the updates get more sparse than usual. In happier news, regarding the burning of my feet (mentioned here last week), today was the first day since said burning that it didn’t hurt to put on my shoes…although Berkeley stepping on said shoe immediately thereafter was not a happy experience.
Hello again.
I’m back from a week-long sojourn on the lovely garden isle of Kauai. (I would’ve mentioned the trip here, but some members of my family didn’t know I was coming, so I didn’t want to spoil the surprise.) Much snorkeling, hiking, and other outdoorsy fun was had, and I now feel quite recharged for the semester to come. Alas, I managed to hideously (sun)burn my feet on a Catamaran cruise we took. (Think hot dogs in the microwave too long…swollen, bubbling…well, you get the idea.) Fortunately, I have so much research work to do this week that I can spend much of it propped up at the PC. At any rate, forgive me if I blog a few things today that may seem stale…I have quite a bit of catching up to do.
Check your head.
For reasons I will discuss upon my return, GitM is on hiatus until August 10. (Don’t worry, it’s nothing serious.) See you then.
The Rocket’s Red Glare.
Happy Independence Day to all the fellow Americans out there, by the way (even those oppressed in DC…thanks, Genehack.) After spending yesterday in nearby New Haven catching up and playing music with some old friends, my 4th plans probably aren’t going to extend very far beyond Internet Scrabble and a late-night poker game. At any rate, be safe out there, kids.
Because I hate to miss a meme…
even if this particular blog meme is now being called into question by its creator, here’s my stab at everyone’s current favorite Google party game:
Kevin is:
* ready for the storm – in his survival suit.
* a great addition to an already star-studded cast.
* one strong guy!
* currently the manager of North American office for Accordions worldwide.
* free, although still facing a huge amount of restrictions.
* a true individual bringing the vocals and melodic harmonies of Crowded House and surrounding them with the style and musical panache of Ry Cooder at his very best.
* considered a spokesperson for the college demographic.
* your other closest friend living in Los Angeles.
* deeply troubled by Maine’s slow population growth and even decline in
some counties.
* the metal power man.
* the youngest member of his village council
and an active voice for manatee conservation in his village.
* a product of the drug-free movement.
* prone to crushes [and] boringly good-looking.
Well, you get the idea.
Under the weather.
Sorry, y’all. Been taking a few days off to beat the summertime blues, but I should be back in business from now herein.
New digs, new features.
The ghost has moved! (And the personal site is now at http://www.kevincmurphy.com…most of the links should work, but bear with me during the transition.) Geocities had finally gotten to be too erratic, so now I’m paying less for a much faster, friendlier, and more flexible server with Cornerhost. And, what with the new digs and all, I’ve decided to experiment with Movable Type. So, GitM now has such goodies as permalinks, category archives, comment boards, and other interactive-type stuff other blogs have benefited from for years. If the experiment doesn’t work, I might still go back to old-school html…we’ll see. So far, ah lahk it a lawt.