oh, hey, LJ, how're you doing?

[aryanhwy]

It's not that I haven't been writing, it's that I've been writing A LOT, just elsewhere. Most of it here, but some of it here and here, plus academic writing, and trying to put in my 400 words regularly. Plus another writing thing, which will get another post. I had once made the decision not to fragment, that I would write everything here, but this eventually turned out to be unfeasible; first the C&I blog split off, and then I had dedicated/project-specific blogs, and then I re-invented Diary of Dr. Logic as a space in which I could right relatively public facing pieces about philosophy, logic, and academia (so if you're interested in any of those, head on over!), as opposed to this space which is moderately personally facing; it's all public, but I didn't feel the need to actively advertise my blathering about my child to unknown academic peers.

So, what's new? I survived another academic year; one of my thesis supervisees got the highest thesis mark of all the philosophers (v. proud), another one is headed to Stanford for his master's. Today is the two year anniversary of officially accepting the position in Durham; I'm still amazed at my good luck. Last week I got back from two weeks in Australia (conferences! Meeting SCAdian friends in person! logic! beer! echidnas! and -- as you can read in the most recent Dr. Logic post, some experiences the writing up of which has garnered me 1500+ post views, and two write-ups in big name philosophy blogs (Feminist Philosophers and Daily Nous), which is a very weird sort of fame. What academic piece will I ever write that will ever be read as much as that post?

Monday Gwen "graduated" from nursery, complete with caps and gowns. While I find this aping of the adult ceremony rather gauche, I have to admit, it is amazingly cute:



As they called each child forward to receive a certificate, the head teacher announced one thing that the child would be remembered for. Many will be remembered for being kind, a good friend, imaginative, etc. Gwen's friend D. will be remembered for spelling out her name to anyone who asked what her name was; her friend T. will be remembered for once explaining at group time that all of his blood had been removed from his body and hence he could not be expected to participate; and Gwen will be remembered as the child who when asked what she wanted to have to drink for lunch, replied, "I'll have wine".

(I see I haven't recounted that anecdote here. One evening when I picked Gwen up, her teacher pulled me aside with that look/tone of "she's had an accident/been exceptionally naughty". "I asked Gwen whether she wanted to have milk or water with lunch..." [and I started thinking, did she ask for milk? did it make her ill? what happened?] "...and she thought, and said, 'I'd like wine!'" Ah, my girl. :) )

Australia deserves a post of its own. We'll see if it gets one.

Comments

Where's the C&I blog?:-}

[wyntersea.livejournal.com]

Haven't visited all the links so it might be up in there:-]

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

It's http://scriptura-et-pictura.blogspot.co.uk/

[kareina.livejournal.com]

I want to read the Australia post.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I'll try to write it, then!