Good will be mine.

O but I should be asleep just now – I am meant to wake up in an hour and twenty minutes to head to the airport to head in turn to San Francisco.
It is MLA time – Modern Languages Association annual conference time, that is – and I will be, in the coming couple of [...]

A first time for everything

For example, using the wordpress app on my iPhone…
And roasting a chicken. Here’s what I did:
I took a 3.5 pound freerange bird, rinsed it with cold water, and dried it off then set it aside.
A lemon: rolled on the counter until it was soft, then pricked with a fork.
Garlic cloves: smashed with the side of [...]

A year of subtlety.

It’s been a while, but I have had my reasons, faithful reader, and good reasons they were. The job application process was, I thought, over – but it turns out that after the brief respite once all the documents have been sent off there arrives another more drawn-out period of introspective anxiety.
I [...]