Post of utter miscellany
Thank you all so much for the good wishes. Gosh. [shuffles feet, mumbles something incoherent but pleased] We return you now to your regularly scheduled agenda:
In the department of Post/Academic Linkage, everyone has already linked to this, but I’m heartened to see the Invisible Adjunct getting some press. Everyone is also already linking to the discussion of the same article at Crooked Timber, but today is blogging catch-up day — a.k.a. "I can be in denial about when grades are due for a little bit longer" day — here at Household Opera.
In the department of Weird Referral Log Stats, I present the oddest Google search pointing here in recent days: "embellishing flip-flops." Curious. But if that person is still looking for embellished flip-flops, one can get lovely sort-of-flipfloppy mesh shoes with sequins at Pearl River for $4.50. After I bought myself a pair a couple of summers ago, I started seeing similar shoes for three or four times the price at trendier stores. Hah, trendy shoe retailers, I say, hah! I mock you with my mesh slippers!
In the department of Exciting Opera News, my friend R. and I are thinking of seeing Der Rosenkavalier at the Met in the spring, assuming I have time for a New York trip. (Or several. I want to see their production of Rodelinda as well. Heck, I’d get season Upper Upper Balcony tickets if I lived in New York.) Ah, Susan Graham. And then there’s Handel and Rameau and all kinds of other coolness at the New York City Opera, too. What is one to do?
And, in the department of Reasons Why I’m Glad I’m Moving to Warmer Climes: today was cold enough that there were snowflakes drifting from the sky. Not many, but they were definitely snowflakes. "Charlottesville is kind of muggy and hot in the summertime," cautioned one of the people I shared my news with yesterday. I just laughed. Anywhere where it doesn’t snow in April is fine by me, and I grew up in Baltimore — I’m already adept at dealing with sticky heat.
Weber and Academia
Via Amanda at Household Opera (congratulations on the fellowship, Amanda!) comes a link to the interesting perspective on “Academic Calvinism” offered at Crooked Timber, discussing the same Chronicle story on the Invisible Adjunct that’s been making th…