Jiggity Jig

We have landed home again and, while disoriented, starting to get back in the swing of things. I just finished shuffling things in a closet to under the bed to make room for our clothes while we camp parent-side for the next few weeks. Ladybug's Mom is a hoarder! But that does mean that when your friends come over with their 2 1/2 yr-old little boy, there's tons of things to play with, like (no joke) a pirate ship forecastle with cannons and a pirate hook, a train set with whistles and lots of Thomas paraphenalia, a tricycle...Mom says that they're her toys, and she just lets her grandson play with them now and then.

Avast ye closet! Prepare to be boarded!

Washington D.C. with family

What Finishing a PhD Looks Like

Brought to you courtesy of Ladybug's Dad, who gave us a new toy for Pancho to play with while whiling away the hours with me in the Faculty, even into the wee sma's of the morning.

Gadamer, Qt #1

I'm liking Gadamer, so a new series of quotations ripped out of context seems appropriate:

"To be situated within a tradition does not limit the freedom of knowledge, but makes it possible"

- Truth and Method (2nd rev'd ed, 2004), p. 354

Birthday Fashion - for family only

Thanks to Mom and Dad, I now have two years of Mars Hill Audio coming my way through cyberspace - yay! highly recommended - you can download a sample edition by going here. Other lovely gifts from family include (from Dom) the hilarious book Watching the English and the cd, Raising Sand, a collection duets by the unlikely duo Alison Krauss (usually paired with Union Station) and Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin) produced by T-Bone Burnett. Also, Pancho's Mom and Dad funded some shopping for summer clothes (which I rather needed), so to give them the pleasure of seeing what they made possible, I thought I'd do a wee fashion show for them. So if you're not them, there is simply no need to watch. Seriously. I mean it. I was not made for modeling.