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Not the preferred nomenclature
Sorry for the blog outage—that was my longest in a while, huh? Mainly I’ve been working on my dissertation, and that doesn’t give me much blogging material: partly I don’t want t… more →
tomemos
Not the preferred nomenclature
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tomemos wrote 6 months ago: Sorry for the blog outage—that was my longest in a while, huh? Mainly I’ve been working on … more →
Using ideas as my maps
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tomemos wrote 10 months ago: Attention, smart people: I think we should have some kind of symposium on the Todd Haynes film I … more →
Erised
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tomemos wrote 11 months ago: (Updated below/Updated again) In a Q&A at Carnegie Hall two days ago, J.K. Rowling revealed that … more →
You people are the real thing
tomemos wrote 1 year ago: Way to get mad, everybody: UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake and Erwin Chemerinsky have reached … more →
Mad as hell
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tomemos wrote 1 year ago: Update: Here’s an online petition from the UCI community to Drake. In what can only be descr … more →
You're different. So are we.
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tomemos wrote 1 year ago: Just before the wedding (which went great, by the way—more later, but see here and here in the mea … more →
All-but-Dissertation Tucker Dummychuck
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tomemos wrote 1 year ago: (Before I forget: a lot of people were confounded by the title of my last entry, so I want to clear … more →
Aristotle was not Belgian
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tomemos wrote 1 year ago: Update (5/21, 11:40 a.m.): Welcome to readers coming from Althouse’s blog! I appreciate the l … more →
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
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tomemos wrote 1 year ago: I will now list similarities between getting married and taking my qualifying exams, until I run out … more →
Better call the calling-off off
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tomemos wrote 1 year ago: File this under “Po-tay-to, Po-tah-to,” and also under “Requiring Little Comment … more →
Find us a dream that don't ask no questions
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tomemos wrote 1 year ago: Memo to graduate students: do not identify yourself as a “nerd” because you are a gradua … more →
Go Prose! Beat Poetry!
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tomemos wrote 2 years ago: True Tales of Tomemos Cleverness, Volume N: Tonight I was out playing Apples to Apples at a friend … more →
Checking it twice
tomemos wrote 2 years ago: Update: I guess I posted this without finishing it. It’s all there now. Thanks for your pati … more →
You keep stabbing yourself in the neck
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tomemos wrote 3 years ago: Finals time again… The English class I taught this quarter ended on Monday. I haven’t … more →
Oh you Masters of Arts
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tomemos wrote 3 years ago: I just finished my last World War I paper, and even though I still have half of my final exams to gr … more →
The guardians and protectors of the mind
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tomemos wrote 3 years ago: So I mentioned good news, and that news is, I’m going to be teaching an English class next qua … more →
And know they love you
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tomemos wrote 3 years ago: Those who know me know that I am gracious, modest, restrained, even diffident in triumph. I am not … more →
If your work isn't what you love
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tomemos wrote 3 years ago: I finished my only paper for this quarter. I pulled an all-nighter to do so, my first. Oh, I … more →
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit
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tomemos wrote 4 years ago: “All these years later, one somehow thinks of Ulysses as being of that day, June 16, 1904, tho … more →
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