Adventures of Isabel

During our discussion about Eric Tagliacozzo’s Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, one of my classmates coined a new term: “Cool-guy academic.” Which is to say, the type of academic — preferably as nerdy as possible — who focuses on “cool guy” topics like smuggling, piracy, drugs, organized [...]

I have mostly been doing things that, while important, don’t make for very interesting reading.I got a new [old] bike yesterday, I sign a lease tomorrow, and will start moving to the East Bay after that. I finally made up my mind and made plans to go out to the East Coast for about a [...]

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 [...]