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Entries from May 2007

Torpor

May 28th, 2007 No Comments

I’ve been approaching my last days in Madison with an air that can only be described as “torpor.”Moving — especially given my lack of access to a vehicle and ludicrous reluctance to ask anyone for help even though I know they wouldn’t mind — seems to be sucking out what little motivation I have.Half [...]

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May 15th, 2007 No Comments

In the spirit of trying to post more regularly even though I don’t have exciting things to talk about every day:
Noticed the following on the flyleaf of a library book (”Small Island” by Andrea Levy — not great but not bad):
“….in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant’s life.”
Unremarkable, you might [...]

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War on Terror, Reign of Terror

May 11th, 2007 No Comments

So, the reason I haven’t been doing this lately, apart from the usual reasons, is that blogger now requires you to sign up for an account with Google to sign in. I finally did it, just now, and it took about ten seconds, but that proved to be enough of a barrier to keep me [...]

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