Thursday, May 31, 2007

Unrestricting

Okay, so I *think* that I changed the settings so that anyone can post now. NO EXCUSES.

Also, most people seem to be able to post, or have in the past, so really I think it's laziness. POST!

xo
Lisa

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Last week in NYC...

Hey all,

Well, I don't think I've given a proper update for a while, and my guilt has finally worn me down.. so here goes:

Well, it’s my last week in New York, since I head up to Toronto next week, to job hunt like mad! I had a couple leads on super waitressing jobs but they seem to have fallen through, so wish me luck! Let's hope I don't end up at the deli serving hot dogs... shudder...

New York has been a lot more fun this spring, living up in Harlem and not being stuck on my own with a bunch of scary Americans! Conor’s friend Cianan was here last week, and so we were out pretty much every night… in the East Village for an open-mike night (some good, some bad, some horrifying…), at our local jazz club, we even managed to see a play that won the Perrier at the festival last August, which was great. It’s my birthday next Tuesday, so my parents are coming into town for the weekend, both to help drive stuff to storage/Toronto and so we’ll celebrate my birthday here too. I’m going to have a going-away dinner on Monday, involving beer and sushi, and then on Tuesday, my birthday, we’ll be going to see “The Moon for the Misbegotten” which has ok reviews but mostly we’re going because Kevin Spacey is performing in it, which is very cool. There are also plans to get up to the top of the Empire State Building to see the sun set….

Conor, as you may know, is staying in nyc until June 15th, and has secured a sub-let in a loft in the part of Brooklyn known as Williamsburg, where all the hipsters live with their angular haircuts and crazy facial hair… so we may see the return of the conference moustache… but in any case I’m sure Conor will have interesting stories!

Anyway, that’s about it for now –I’m pretty bogged down with papers and getting ready to head back to Toronto. Though I recently discovered that it looks like I’ll be able to live in the place we have right now next fall, which is such a relief because at least I’m familiar with it and at least I have a place for the fall! Then hopefully I’ll be moving back to Edinburgh for the spring and the summer and waiting to hear about universities. Oh and guess what! The New School has decided they might credit all my Edinburgh courses to me which would mean that I save a year and a half of course work, which is excellent. It also means that I save a lot of cash as well… so although I don’t know if I’ll stay here for several reasons, this is one reason in favour of staying…

Okay, well I should get back to those papers…

WRITE! I haven’t heard from most of you lately and I don’t want to lose touch!

Lisa
xo

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Wedding pics


For those of you who are interested, here are some pics from the wedding:











Conor's baby nephew in his wedding attire...




Des, right before the wedding....


Baggini Correspondence

"Cheers. Someone from Rapid Vienna Circle mentioned you lot as opposition!

jb

T Roberts wrote:


Dear Dr Baggini,
re: your Philos-L post on philosophers' football teams - we at Edinburgh have a postgrad five-a-side team called 'Sartre of Midlothian' (cf. SPL side 'Heart of Midlothian', of course), would that be of any interest? I imagine you've been inundated with awfully-punning team-names.

regards,

Tom Roberts. "

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Sex crimes and the Vatican

have a look at this

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The great staff-student football face-off

For those of you who have not already seen it, I thought I would post this match report from the staff-student football match on Friday. Supposedly writen by an "impartial" observer, but I have my suspicions...

MATCH REPORT: STAFF vs GRAD STUDENT FOOTBALL 4th MAY 2007 Experience Triumphs Over Youthful Good-Looks and Natural Talent. Staff 4 - Postgrads 1. The sporting event of the season ended on Friday in an emphatic victory for the Staff of Edinburgh University’s department of philosophy over their Postgrad counterparts, in an error-strewn match in front of a capacity crowd at Edinburgh’s Meadows Stadium.

The students started well, with footballing-whirlwind Diego linking effectively with top strikers Ana and Lise, but the tide was soon to turn. Diego, perhaps unnerved by pitchside rumours of a nefarious Staff plan to rid him of his trousers, found scoring opportunities elusive, and it was left to Staff captain Chrisman to settle his team’s nerves with the first goal of the match. The euphoria was shared by onlookers and city bookmakers alike.

Staff momentum was maintained as the Postgrads, vocally marshalled by midfield-general Tom, failed to penetrate solid defensive work by the intimidating Nudds-Mason axis. A series of acrobatic saves by keeper Ketland kept the Postgrads at bay before Staff secret-weapon Davis was unleashed to score their second goal on the stroke of half-time.

A second-half fightback appeared on the cards as Postgrad pressure yielded a well-executed and strategic own-goal attributed amid confusion to both Ketland and Kallestrup. With Staff’s corner-kicks being taken from a point increasingly close to the Postgrad goal-mouth, however, and with sporting giant Brown guilty of repeated standing-still-with-malevolent-intent offences out of sight of the referee, there was no way back for a violent spirited Postgrad team. A lack of discipline, with Staff veteran Scaltsas the victim of several particularly harsh challenges, led to the loss of third goal of the evening.

The last laugh was had by Staff’s Jesper Kallestrup, whose fine solo effort rubbed salt into Postgrad wounds following concerted pressure, with Mog’s rabbit-in-the-headlights approach to goalkeeping proving no match for the Danish Dynamo.
“That should be worth at least a Pass on my degree” commented one satisfied Postgrad playmaker.