News and views:

First up, I am not going to be a reluctant New Yorker much longer. Z. got a tenure-track job near DC, so we are going home. We may have to live in Virginia (The horror! The horror! And believe you me, Heart of Darkness references are not much misplaced with respect to certain aspects of Virginia.), but we'll be in the greater DC area. I will greatly miss my colleagues and the wonderful fans of NY, people like [livejournal.com profile] cesperanza, [livejournal.com profile] astolat, [livejournal.com profile] geekturnedvamp, and many, many others. Also, I'll miss my 24-hour gym and the St. Agnes book sale. But I won't miss the crowds or the noise.

I celebrate by drawing down on my to-review pile; what, you didn't know I was a geek? Nonfiction, sf and mystery )

Coming soon: review essay on becoming a pornographer.
I am committing SV vids in my head. It's a good thing I lack the time and the technology, or I'd have a new hobby to inflict on you all. Currently, I'm stuck on this:

I love Bruce Springsteen, even if he's lost his voice )

Very Bad Day at school: I showed my students Monty Python, and they still sat there like scrambled eggs, refusing to respond. Perhaps I have confused them so much that silence seems the only option. I like the subject so much; why can't I make them like it too?

I also have been doing reviews, but now there's such a backlog I'll do them a bit at a time. Some fiction:
Snicket, Bujold, Kress, J.A. Jance, David Auburn, Alan Dean Foster, Pratchett, Mark Haddon, not in that order )
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