1.) I threw some plant and branch material from the back woods into the fireplace just now, and instantly the house smelled of marijuana.
“It smells like marijuana,” said Mr UD, coming in from reading on the deck.
“Totally,” said UD. “Could the author of Ferdinand the Bull…. ? No…” (Munro Leaf was the last owner of our house. We bought it from his sons.)
2.) Either Tabasco Sauce is losing its oomph, or I’m developing an immunity. The heat is gone!
Trackback URL for this post:
https://www.margaretsoltan.com/wp-trackback.php?p=26880
Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
October 15th, 2010 at 5:31PM
1. Too little exposure.
2. Too much exposure.
3. Cheers, Kevin
October 15th, 2010 at 6:31PM
Kevin: LOL. Too true.
October 15th, 2010 at 6:35PM
a sign of things to come? Or perhaps it could be those wacky giant mushrooms if you ate them!
FYI
“The number of taste buds decreases beginning at about age 40 to 50 in women and at 50 to 60 in men. Each remaining taste bud also begins to atrophy (lose mass). The sensitivity to the four taste sensations does not seem to decrease until after age 60, if at all. If taste sensation is lost, usually salty and sweet tastes are lost first, with bitter and sour tastes lasting slightly longer.
The sense of smell may diminish, especially after age 70. This may be related to loss of nerve endings in the nose.
source: Aging changes in the senses
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/004013.htm
October 15th, 2010 at 6:39PM
Interesting, cloudminder… Though in my case I think it’s less about age than about, as Kevin suggests above, outrageous overexposure. I just use too much of the stuff.
October 16th, 2010 at 12:19AM
And I was just going to call you recently. Wonder if you’d be able to speak coherently… Or you didn’t inhale? 😉
October 16th, 2010 at 1:02AM
Andrzej: We had to inhale. It was all over the house! But please do call. The effects have worn off, and we’d love to hear from you.
October 16th, 2010 at 1:11AM
So you won’t be saying “I burnt but didn’t inhale”, right? Sure, I’ll call, just not today – now it’s school (it’s already Saturday morning!), then a birthday party for my blog platform. Yes, I do it too! You won’t be able to read it, but Mr UD might want to give it a try – lynx.salon24.pl.
October 19th, 2010 at 2:19PM
I have no trouble believing that my Aunt Margaret had a self-grow operation out the back. My grandmother (Margaret Leaf’s sister-in-law) takes the same view.
October 19th, 2010 at 2:38PM
Colin: I love it! Okay! I’ll do some more exploring…