All hail your new president

Today the ADFL executive committee (for which I am in New York) met in its marathon first day meeting session: 9am - 6pm followed by dinner. It is always a wonderfully invigorating, if long, day. Great to sit with a bunch of smart and committed colleagues and brainstorm about our profession. Electees to the committee serve a term of three years and there are three people in each cohort so we are nine plus the two MLA staffers who actually make it all work and happen. In one's final year, a member of the cohort is selected to serve as president. And for 2011 that will be me. I warned them that I am scatty and things have been falling through the cracks with me these days, but they assured me that they had faith in me (i.e. no one else wanted to do it...)

a bit of a funny

Another email gem.

Dear so and so,

The full title for these courses is “Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies”, or CLCS, and this was a new major offered by the Department of Languages and Literature (College of Humanities) since 2005. CLCS replaced an unfortunate course suffix “C. Lit”, used between 2005-2009. Where possible, please align these course title/headings.

could i join Daniel in the land of paper free work

On the way to New York for ADFL meeting. I've flown so much in the last year that I have achieved gold status. That means I get to go through the priority screening line at security. Doesn't look like I'll get an upgrade though. Just talked to Daniel who is effusive about a training he just did that has his office completely devoid of extraneous paper. Actually all paper. I am going to google the guy and read up. I could probably use something along these lines. It is absurd how much time I spend looking and relooking for things.

Ring by ring, Zoe's reign of dispepsia spreads across our lives and carpets. (RCS)

Halloween Part 2

Catherine, Tessa and Keziah.

Halloween part 1

So into the spirit. To this charming wig I added a tie dyed shirt and called it good.Craig in his Johnny Depp pirate wig and Brendan as a government stimulus package. In the background, Moses eating some 7 layer bean dip.
Rockin' out.