verstehen libre.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
important discovery: really good, non-dairy "ice cream"
After our delicious dinner of polenta, tomatoes, kale, black beans, and a bunch of other good stuff last night, we had a little of this business with some strawberries and bananas gently sauteed in a little coconut oil and brown sugar. Mmmhmmm. This trying-to-be-more-vegan thing is easy-peasey! Although there are, I believe, some cheese fries in my near future. Well, I can be the expert on the fries, and she can be the expert on the cheese. And that's that.
In other news, I'm feeling generally okay about my fundamentally ill-prepared paper that I'm theoretically presenting in Vegas later this week. I've spent a whole lot of time in the past few weeks messing around with it and trying to make it More Sweeping and Important in its Comparative-Historical Scope, and also doing some haphazard process-tracing of the central argument's various interesting-but-whoa-there-that's-another-paper-entirely implications. So, well, it's kind of a big mess now. At this point I'm just excited to stay in a fancy hotel (with a pool!! It's 78 degrees there!!!!) and maybe crash some receptions.
But the paper, you know, I actually really like it. It's funky, it's unorthodox, and it's interesting--and "interesting" is an exceedingly rare quality in this particular discipline, I must say. All of my favorite political scientists--from my former advisor to the Captain to the Philosopher-King to my current super-dean--they're all crazy intellecutal risk-takers in pursuit of Really Big Ideas, and their work--the work that drew me into this particular pathologically insane web of academia--is all incredibly interesting. So that's my intellectual genealogy, and I'm damn proud of it, and even though my current project is exceedingly half-baked, it's also an initial stab at something bigger and better. So it's a work in progress! That's what these damn conferences are for! Also, they are for getting THE HELL OUT OF BOSTON BECAUSE HOLY SHIT IT IS WAY TOO FUCKING COLD HERE.
Over and out, peeps. I gots to brave the elements for a chocolate date! ¶ 5:57 PM
In other news, I'm feeling generally okay about my fundamentally ill-prepared paper that I'm theoretically presenting in Vegas later this week. I've spent a whole lot of time in the past few weeks messing around with it and trying to make it More Sweeping and Important in its Comparative-Historical Scope, and also doing some haphazard process-tracing of the central argument's various interesting-but-whoa-there-that's-another-paper-entirely implications. So, well, it's kind of a big mess now. At this point I'm just excited to stay in a fancy hotel (with a pool!! It's 78 degrees there!!!!) and maybe crash some receptions.
But the paper, you know, I actually really like it. It's funky, it's unorthodox, and it's interesting--and "interesting" is an exceedingly rare quality in this particular discipline, I must say. All of my favorite political scientists--from my former advisor to the Captain to the Philosopher-King to my current super-dean--they're all crazy intellecutal risk-takers in pursuit of Really Big Ideas, and their work--the work that drew me into this particular pathologically insane web of academia--is all incredibly interesting. So that's my intellectual genealogy, and I'm damn proud of it, and even though my current project is exceedingly half-baked, it's also an initial stab at something bigger and better. So it's a work in progress! That's what these damn conferences are for! Also, they are for getting THE HELL OUT OF BOSTON BECAUSE HOLY SHIT IT IS WAY TOO FUCKING COLD HERE.
Over and out, peeps. I gots to brave the elements for a chocolate date! ¶ 5:57 PM
