This relates back to the series of posts I made between 9/14 (ADHD Awareness Day) and 9/26 (Blogging for Kids with Disabilities Day) (9/19 completes the set):
What Do Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Related Disorders Deal With
What a sad thing: David Pingree has died. I can’t describe how valuable his work has been to me. I had tried to get him invited here (as a plenarist), but I’m a minion and get no say, and I inquired of his program at Brown - and at that point they had recently stopped accepting applications due to the uncertainty and his retirement. I would have loved to work with the man on ancient and medieval astrological texts, loved to.
What a loss. He was unique, brilliant…his work was what really pulled me into my area of concentration, more than anything else. Really. ( have his Picatrix: The Latin Version sitting next to me, in fact.)
There are many things to say about many things. Important things in academia, in the land of blog, other places.
But I haven’t been saying them, although I want to, intend to, and maybe even will. But there is no time and no energy for that now.
My job is f-ing insane. Running and screaming might be the more understated option.
I feel like the anti-Tiny-Tim: ‘God damn you, every one.’
Well, we now have Civ. IV.
God help us all.
Ok, well, enough blogs in my Doods list have appeared to have gone permanently awry that I should really clean the place up.
So if you have suggestions, please share.