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UD is...
"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Saturday, December 31, 2005

SNAPSHOTS FROM HOME
AND AWAY FROM HOME

UD’s back in town…

…after pleasant stays in Cambridge, Mass (weirdly sunny and warm) and then the mountains of western Maryland, where she and the family unit gazed at clouds and sun over Lake Habeeb from their fifth floor room at the Rocky Gap Lodge.













(subtract golf, add snow)

The best part was rediscovering Cumberland, Maryland, an architectural delight, and a great town for train lovers. Here’s one for you, Cold Spring Shops: