April 20, 2020

Took a shower and shaved--first shower since Friday. Reviewed and sent an incoming fellow's documents to Duke's Visa Services office. Skimmed and forwarded three new submissions to Politics & Society to our filter partner. Our current review cycle ends today.

A rainy morning.

Watched training videos on Excel. Breakfast was yogurt, fruit, and sunflower seeds.

Took an hour to mail two boxes of books, each weighing 45 pounds, to a former fellow in Germany. Cost was $150 per box. I wore my mask while in the post office. Nearly everyone else had a mask on too.

Went to the grocery and bought a pound of catfish fillets, pecans, and bucatini. Cooked the catfish for dinner. Started editing a paper on climate change: how to assign remedial responsibility. Watching an episode of Homeland.

Took an hour-long walk through campus and around Duke Pond. Studied French.

Talked to my mom. She has a raccoon in the attic. Terminix has set a trap for it.

Wrote a blog post on a June 2019 article in P&S on Bolivia and the collapse of the party system there in 2002. Reread the poems in Poetry and the Sewanee Review. Set aside a few books to give away. Trying to create room in my bookcases for my anthologies.

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