April 16, 2020
Stayed up until 2 last night . . . Slept on the futon for a change. Coffee this morning from the usual place. Studied French and made a pan of biscuits. Heard via text from a couple of fellows from last year--one in Lille, the other in Rotterdam.
Wrote a post on a forthcoming paper in Politics & Society. The paper is on the dual pension system in China. I emailed the author a draft to see if I got it right.
Watched an episode of Homeland then browsed back issues of Politics & Society. Tweeted about a couple of articles. The journal was much different in its first ten years. Lots of explicitly Marxist analyses, for example. There was an article on the Finnish copper miners of Michigan.
Went for an hour-long walk through campus and around Duke Pond. Not too many people out but enough were out to annoy me when I had to go out of the way to avoid coming within six feet of them.
Two books arrived today. One is a secondhand copy of Bateson's Scholar-Critic. It's in excellent shape. I spent about an hour tonight with the book. It's a book that needs to be read, not browsed. So bit heavier than I hoped for. I think his other book, A Guide to English Literature, will be more what I'm looking for. I ordered a used copy. The other is the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature.
Dinner tonight was spaghetti with a simple sauce of olive oil, garlic, and fresh tomatoes.
Wrote a post on a forthcoming paper in Politics & Society. The paper is on the dual pension system in China. I emailed the author a draft to see if I got it right.
Watched an episode of Homeland then browsed back issues of Politics & Society. Tweeted about a couple of articles. The journal was much different in its first ten years. Lots of explicitly Marxist analyses, for example. There was an article on the Finnish copper miners of Michigan.
Went for an hour-long walk through campus and around Duke Pond. Not too many people out but enough were out to annoy me when I had to go out of the way to avoid coming within six feet of them.
Two books arrived today. One is a secondhand copy of Bateson's Scholar-Critic. It's in excellent shape. I spent about an hour tonight with the book. It's a book that needs to be read, not browsed. So bit heavier than I hoped for. I think his other book, A Guide to English Literature, will be more what I'm looking for. I ordered a used copy. The other is the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature.
Dinner tonight was spaghetti with a simple sauce of olive oil, garlic, and fresh tomatoes.
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