Tag: pedantry
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Yesterday afternoon, a friend and I were lamenting the announced closing of a prominent think tank. She remarked that the general public probably wouldn’t even notice its disappearance from the intellectual landscape. True. Social sciences research for its own sake ain’t exactly the stuff of sexy headlines and well, duh, it’s a recession y’all. Organizations…
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Photo by phrenologist It feels as if I’m on a deadline lately. Not work-related (although, I do have one of those looming), but seasonal. Everyone I know is going through the same thing – feeling tired, foot-draggingly worn-out, staring out the window at the cold and the grey (which is only going to get colder…
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Last week, I asked my sister if I should devote more of GenMeh’s column inches to discussing the trials and triumphs of my own life. She wisely pointed out this wouldn’t exactly mesh with my uber private nature. Cards close to the vest and all that jazz. The privacy thing came up again when I…
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In a recent email interview (you're gonna dig this one, kids), I asked the interview subject which moments in his current life stand out as ones he would never have believed plausible or possible a few short years ago. The question actually prompted me to ask the same thing of myself. As it stands, my…
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List Served is a weekly feature wherein I present you with an ordered grouping of (at least tangentially) related points. I love lists and the internet loves ephemeral minutiae. It's all good. In honor of the fact that it seems as if I’ve been in transit since June (although the most recent Boston/Montreal doubleheader was…
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“If you want to be an expert, there’s really only one thing you need to do – just get out there and start calling yourself one. Believe me, that’s all it takes.” Photo by Joe Shlabotnik Wise words from the girl sitting next to us at the coffee shop who couldn’t help overhearing our conversation…
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