I’m just about to get into the short job of packing for the week. I sure hope that there will be an internet connection and some kind of laundry facilities in the dormitory where I’ll be spending the next three work weeks, but in case there aren’t, I’m packing a bunch of clothes. Tomorrow morning, I start work on the camp. I was informed, of course not at the meeting on Monday, but rather late on Friday, that I’ll be required to live on campus. From the meeting five days earlier, I was under the impression that this was optional, …
Month: August 2004
If I Were A Villain
Been having fun passing a little time in the morning with my coffee over at Liquid Generation. I don’t know why, but it seems it takes me a little longer to get my brain started in the morning these days. Anyway, I took the Movie Villain quiz and I heartily concur: Oh yeah. I’m definitely Agent Smith. I mean, I would be. If I were a movie villain. And if I were a comic book hero? Uh, okay. Sure…
On An Article On The Loss of the American Dream Abroad
In an article at The Chronicle titled Waking Up From the American Dream, Sasha Abramsky worries that the rest of the world is losing faith in the American Dream. In many ways, the Iraq war is merely a pretext for a deeper discontent with how America has seemed to fashion a new global society, a new economic, military, and political order in the decade and a half since the end of the cold war. America may only be riding the crest of a wave of modernization that, in all likelihood, would have emerged without its guiding hand. But add to …