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Jun 12 03: on the road, again
Tomorrow we pile into a car and go to Ithaca for the weekend. Again. We were there last weekend as well. Last time, it was…well, it was basically because Heather made me. This is the Heather with whom I stayed a while in Sydney last November. She was in Ithaca for Cornell reunion weekend and demanded I meet her for a drink. And (as anyone who knows Heather will attest) when Heather makes up her mind it’s very hard to contradict her wishes. Although somehow César managed to do it. Because he’s, you know, César.
This weekend we’re going up for the wedding of Kathleen and John, two of the people I love most in the world. And it’s about damn time too.
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In heavy rotation on the car stereo tomorrow will be Annie Lennox: Bare, which was released yesterday and is already firmly embedded in my head. Recommended.two
I tend to avoid political debates. I’m more of a “let’s talk about something that doesn’t make us angry” kind of guy: at the first sign of conflict my brain tends to go directly into Hide Under the Couch mode. As a result, I tend just to lurk in the discussions that spiral off of Patrick Nielsen-Hayden’s brainy and thought-provoking blog Electrolite. But the caliber of debate and analysis and rational thought and good humor that goes on there makes me wish I were secure enough in my own opinions to do so. Recommended.His wife Theresa’s blog is also quite fine, for very different reasons, but I’ll leave that review for some near-future posting, I think. Wouldn’t want to seem too toadyish.