TASP 2003 at UT Austin:
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB!Saturday, January 28, 2006
Congratulations Adrian! zu he ni!
Jacob!!!
I encountered Walter Benjamin very indirectly when I was doing some [rather poor] translation work over last summer. I haven't read his treatise on translation, however, nor do I know of anything else he might have written about on other subjects, but I'm fascinated nonetheless, and would be up for a group reading project.
Also, did I tell you I'm in an quartet with Michael Birnbaum?
Tae-Yeoun, if there's ever something you'd like to find during shopping period, go on the online course selection server and search for it. There are seminars on damned near everything at times that make them impossible to take.Thursday, January 26, 2006
Look what I got in the mail yesterday; a job. woo!
Dear Adrian,
Thank you for the interest in our Teaching English Across China program. We viewed your complete application and are impressed with your academic and practice background. We would like to offer you the ESL position when you are available to go.
Please contact us again in May for the future opening.
Sinolink Foundation
www.sinolinkfoundation.org
Also, if you ever get the chance, smoke salvia... especially if you've been reading philosophy-
from my italian composition, in which I use the subjuctive:Sunday, January 22, 2006
"...Anche a Yale, voglio che qualcuno offra un corso sul Vico nel semester prossimo."
[trans. "And at Yale, I want someone to offer a course on Vico next semester."]
my TA's response:
"! c'e' un corso questo semestre, ma e' graduate. lui e' molto affascinante!"
["! there's a course this semester, but it's a graduate course. he's very fascinating!"]
I throw a fit and look up the course that I'm not taking this semester because it never occured to me to look at the graduate courses. (!!!) To my dismay, it turns out that it is taught by no other than my rather brilliant Dante professor from last semester who has, coincidentally, also taught the following TASP seminars:
1983
Cornell I: Representations in Literature and the Visual Arts.
Faculty: Giuseppe Mazzotta and Esther Dotson, Cornell University.
1981
Cornell I: The Ways of Narrative--From Classical to Modern Fiction.
Faculty: W.R. Johnson and Giuseppe Mazzotta, Cornell University.
My negligence is a crime.
And where are the pictures and anecdotes from the austin reunions?
Miss you all--
I will be in Austin this coming weekend, from Saturday afternoon to Tuesday morning. I'll be doing nothing but visiting some of my friends from page school, and i hope, from TASP.Monday, January 16, 2006
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Tasp!Wednesday, January 11, 2006
1. It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be tasp.
2. It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown at tasp.
3. In Chinese, the sound 'tasp' means 'bite the wax tadpole'.
4. It can take tasp several days to move just through one tree.
5. Over 46,000 pieces of tasp float on every square mile of ocean!
6. Britain's Millennium Dome is more than double the size of tasp.
7. Some birds use tasp to orientate themselves during migration!
8. The Vikings believed that the Northern lights were caused by tasp as they rode out to collect warriors slain in battle.
9. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are tasp.
10. Grapes explode if you put them inside tasp.
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/trivia.pl?subject=tasp&gender=p
movie suggestion: Happy Together, by Wong Kar-wai.Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Reasons why:
1.) Wong is awesome--he shoots his films without a script--it all comes together in his editing.
2.) It's beautiful
3.) (Not a reason why I liked it, but I thought it was amusing, and I like having three reasons) to quote someone I know: "There is actually a pretty graphic sex scene between the two male characters in the very beginning of the film, so, brace for impact!"
Enjoy.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EUNICE!Sunday, January 01, 2006
hahah um merry christmas to you too, Matt? hahaha. :) Unfortunately I am not sure that i had an environmentally safe nor inoffensive new years :( (this segues nicely into a story about new years) some of my stupid friends threw fireworks into a very dry canyon (where we were going to set up generators, amps, drum sets etc. and celebrate) and.. it lit on fire and burned the whole thing... hmm not so good.
soo... we proceeded (i.e. fled) to another site, to set up there. they promptly built a bonfire. geez.
:) happy holidays guys, mwah!!
I have fond memories of **all** of you that are near and dear to my heart. and each of you are wonderful.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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