Posted in Uncategorized, tagged uncategorizable on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the weekend I watched the stylishly entertaining Korean movie ‘Oldboy,’ a marriage of the Count of Monte Cristo with some Grand Guignol tale in which a man, taken and held captive for 15 years for mysterious reasons, is released only to carry out a revenge plot that turns out to have been designed by [...]
Posted in Grad School, Sociology, tagged sleep on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Having frittered away a considerable amount of my April on things like furniture shopping and mindless reading, I realized late last week that the semester’s end is looming, and that my paper for my Contextualization seminar is in no better shape than it was in January, when I submitted my initial proposal to join the [...]
Posted in Humor on April 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For those who want to know, follow this bit of advice. Thanks to SC for passing it along.
Posted in General Thoughts, New York City, tagged idle thoughts, whining on April 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
What’s the point of living in a modern industrial society if it takes 12-16 weeks to get the sofa you want?
Even though I passed into adulthood a long time ago, I have, absurdly enough, yet to buy my first honest to goodness sofa. Though it can be something of a tricky proposition in New York, [...]
Posted in International and Comparative Education, tagged global competitiveness, Homeland Security, international students, visas on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
No, not really: but the interim final rule published the other day by the Department of Homeland Security in the Federal Register is interesting nevertheless. What the interim final rule does is change some of the regulations affecting international students here in the U.S. on F-1 student visas (there are about 600,000 or so international [...]
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