Beware English professors who encounter this on their way to the office.

Velcro chihuahua.

Science dude who wants to separate science from the humanities (for uncompelling if not stock reasons) also teaches professional ethics, which is more than a tinge humanities.

Also, rather intrigued by this essay's use of "my" and its framing of collaboration.

Got a page of writing done and

Listening to The Smiths in the faculty office.

Got my first e-mail about Spring 2026 courses.

We're beginning the formalism/close reading section this week. There's an article to be written about how Brooks and Warren, and an entirely army of formalists in critical journals throughout the fifties, agreed that "this is a bad poem." poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

Arrived yesterday and already through the first chapter of what I think will be a very important book.

The subject of the theory class tomorrow.

Page proofs!

In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.