A bit of a jumble, but there you go
Jan. 30th, 2004 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI was nicely awoken at 8:26 this morning (yes, I know the exact time) by a phone call from The Guardian back on Prince Edward Island. It looks like the letter will be printed--excellent!
(And if, as per![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
london_calling's warnings, I've got some perfectly snarky responses ready to pull out for a follow-up. "So. We've got the same GDP per capita as Portugal, Slovenia, and Greece. They've had brutal dictatorships and nasty wars in their recent history. What's our excuse? Oh, and they're catching up. We aren't.")
In connection with adolescent ambassadors to Sweden, I've gotten involved in a minor comments dispute here. (On a side note, it can't be a good thing that a lot of nominally pro-Israeli writers increasingly remind me of Greater Serbian propagandists screaming about the West's innate anti-Serb bigotry and Serbia's millennial contributions to Western culture and the Muslim Threat (tm), et cetera ad infinitum. All that remains to be done is to call me "Mr. Junkburger.") Still, all good fun.
Incidentally, it turns out that it wasn't a vein bursting in my right eye, but rather conjunctivitis. At least the Health Centre has a quick turnaround time, so I'll have my appointment at ten to 2. The bloody dorm air is so dry that it was probably only a matter of time. A humidifier, or something, would be nice.
(BTW, Scott Martens has some excellent posts, including a brief history of Bakongo and a comparison of Islam and Judaism, on his blog.)
On the academic front, work proceeds nicely. I'll be doing a summary of the educational histories of a few Henrician statesmen--Thomas More and Nicholas Bacon will feature prominently--over the weekend for Wednesday the 4th. On the 7th, I'll be taking the LSAT, and on the 11th will be a presentation on Locke's influence on Laurence Sterne. This should be fun.
Finally, on the blogging perspective, I've a couple of books that I want to review, one post on the false spectre of an imminent Muslim majority in France and Europe that needs to come out, a historical survey of Laibach, and an idea (still germinating) to do surveys of pairs of countries (Romania and Moldova, South Korea and the North, et cetera) far from reunification on the German (or Vietnamese) model.
(And if, as per
london_calling's warnings, I've got some perfectly snarky responses ready to pull out for a follow-up. "So. We've got the same GDP per capita as Portugal, Slovenia, and Greece. They've had brutal dictatorships and nasty wars in their recent history. What's our excuse? Oh, and they're catching up. We aren't.")In connection with adolescent ambassadors to Sweden, I've gotten involved in a minor comments dispute here. (On a side note, it can't be a good thing that a lot of nominally pro-Israeli writers increasingly remind me of Greater Serbian propagandists screaming about the West's innate anti-Serb bigotry and Serbia's millennial contributions to Western culture and the Muslim Threat (tm), et cetera ad infinitum. All that remains to be done is to call me "Mr. Junkburger.") Still, all good fun.
Incidentally, it turns out that it wasn't a vein bursting in my right eye, but rather conjunctivitis. At least the Health Centre has a quick turnaround time, so I'll have my appointment at ten to 2. The bloody dorm air is so dry that it was probably only a matter of time. A humidifier, or something, would be nice.
(BTW, Scott Martens has some excellent posts, including a brief history of Bakongo and a comparison of Islam and Judaism, on his blog.)
On the academic front, work proceeds nicely. I'll be doing a summary of the educational histories of a few Henrician statesmen--Thomas More and Nicholas Bacon will feature prominently--over the weekend for Wednesday the 4th. On the 7th, I'll be taking the LSAT, and on the 11th will be a presentation on Locke's influence on Laurence Sterne. This should be fun.
Finally, on the blogging perspective, I've a couple of books that I want to review, one post on the false spectre of an imminent Muslim majority in France and Europe that needs to come out, a historical survey of Laibach, and an idea (still germinating) to do surveys of pairs of countries (Romania and Moldova, South Korea and the North, et cetera) far from reunification on the German (or Vietnamese) model.
