Uraga!

Just so you don't think I only post about non-existent alien rock star games*:

papersource was accepted to the PhD program in Edumacation at Western, with full ride funding and everything. She = the Fonz.

My dissertation is one of four nominees for the Krooss Prize, which is given to the year's best dissertation in business history. The winner will be named at a conference next month in sun-splashed (I learned that word from our broker, see below) Minneapolis. (Last year the conference was in France, quel dommage.)

Our condo is now on the market. All personal photos, books, and marginally offensive Gilded Age comic art have been carefully squirreled away. Our broker writes, "Don't miss this sun-splashed top level 2-bedroom condo with off-street parking. Features include formal living & dining rooms with built-ins, eat-in kitchen & lovely original details." Original details, go figure!

We saw Downfall last night. Moral: Hitler's bunker? Not that fun!

My big "justify your incredibly cushy year at the Academy" talk is on Tuesday. I'll probably be working on it at Widener or Lamont for much of the day tomorrow and Monday. If anyone wants to meet up for lunch or coffee or similar in Harvard Square, let me know.

I'm going to Fenway tonight to see the Red Sox write the next chapter in their long and storied rivalry with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. It's definitely something I wanted to do once more before leaving Boston, but I do fear being outed as a non-trivia knowing bandwagon jumper. What little baseball knowledge I have is pre-WWI.

Edit: Since a couple of people have asked, the icons I've been using lately are all taken without any permission from an illustrated alphabet by cool indie comics artist Tom Gauld. You should go to his site and read stuff (I especially like the short comic Hunter and Painter) and buy stuff.

Edit Edit: Hey, is anyone going to GenCon this year? I'm not planning on it, but I am realizing that there is some historical research in Indianapolis that I should probably do, and this summer might be the time to do it.

*If you're actually looking for the non-existent alien rock star game posts, they're filtered Friends-only. Not because there's anything in them that needs to be suppressed; I'm just mildly embarassed by how many of them there were. I'll probably make 'em public in a couple of days, but if anyone wants to slap them up on the Darling Wiki, that's Kool Moe Dee too. [They're no longer filtered.]