Honey don’t.

Don’t check the academic lit. jobs wiki.
I am speaking as someone who has been there and done that.
There are so many, many things irreversibly wrong with the wiki.
You will only become more ridiculously anxious if you look at it. And, once you have a look, you will find: you cannot look away, [...]

On milestones.

Today I turned thirty.
To all who were so very kind to me:
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

There is a light.

The house next to mine is occupied by a law firm, or some sort of conglomeration of lawyers. Ostensibly. They were rude to us when we were moving stuff into the basement, so I hold no special place in my heart for them.
Particularly as they have this light – this security light – [...]

Strangers.

I haven’t essayed this sort of thing in a while, but I’ve been particularly industrious of late, so I thought I might have a little fun.
Here, then, are a baker’s dozen of random tracks – in the order they came about:
1. Part 086 of 240; Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl.
Well, that’s [...]