I think this is at the heart of the war between university academics and administrators. Academics look at administrators and think if we had to do that you might as well kill me.

Oh I wish. It was the biggest (subtle) fuck you I’m not you I could think of at the time. But then again he did create the conditions for this healthy moment. So thanks dad? 🙃

I’ll never forget when I told my dad I turned down the advisor job at the Seattle offices for Morgan Stanley because I wanted to pivot to religious studies, and now I’m in literature. 🙃

Best edition?

Damn. You really kind put it in the most compelling way possible. Fine. I’ll read it by January’s end.

YASSS. I’ve read zero Austen but one thousand percent yes.

Legit I thought it was the coolest idea when she told me. Told me that when a good friend passed, she made one of his favorite meals she saved in her book and invited the exact same people over.

Met a woman recently who, whenever she cooks for others, writes down the recipe, the date she made it, and everyone she made it for. An entire autobiography in a cookbook.

Took the train all the way to Harvard while at AAR just to say hi to Steve. He wasn’t in.

And I thought I was petty by making chapter one of my thesis me disagreeing with literally everyone.

It’s so fun!

But dammit I’m so excited about it too. Stylistically it is the most casual thing I’ve ever written. It’s a lot of I don’t know what the fuck to do with this, but neither does anyone else, so let’s slow down a minute and think about it. Let’s be wrong together, and learn from it!

Charles I was the father King Charles II, aka the Beloved, aka Charles Kinbote, commentator to John Shade’s “Pale Fire” and reluctant father to King Charles III, whose portrait is shades of deep red and signed with a butterfly.

Wait I’m in the wrong chat.