Archive for January, 2009

Honeymoon Period

While the President enjoys high approval ratings and a pliant Congress, I enjoy my two-hour dinners, classes that end early, and putting off work to my glorious three-day weekends. This won’t last forever for either of us, of course. In my case, the e-mails about required meetings start to trickle in, and I slowly add [...]

Continue Reading Add comment January 30th, 2009

Our Better History

Though the events that shaped my return-to-school itinerary were not the best, I can’t have imagined celebrating Barack Obama’s inauguration in a better way. I divided the last few weeks of Obamania between Washington and Ithaca. I spent the weeks leading up to the inauguration doing all of the usual Washingtonian kid things: long strolls [...]

Continue Reading Add comment January 20th, 2009

Bruce vs. Class

Winter Break is slipping away, and my feelings are predictably mixed. On the one hand, I can’t wait to see my friends, and Spring ’09 is offering an exciting set of classes and two legendary ILR professors who are rumored to destroy GPAs. On the other hand, I will ring in this semester 350 miles [...]

Continue Reading 3 comments January 8th, 2009


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