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"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
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(Rate Your Students)
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politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

THANKSGIVING

A foggy pre-Thanksgiving day in Foggy Bottom. But all-American UD strides, "like a Whitman among the corpses" (as George Orwell described Henry Miller), through the gloomy high-security avenues near the White House.

Even spilling, just outside her office, the entire cup of coffee she'd carefully carried from the student center Starbucks doesn't faze UD. "Bad outcome," was all she said as she surveyed the long stain she'd made on the English department carpet.

Beyond her natural happiness (see UD post dated 7/15/04 for a discussion of this problem), UD is influenced by the season of Thanksgiving.

UD is grateful, for instance, to her weblog visitors. Because of them, University Diaries' traffic has, in just a few months, more than quadrupled.

But UD won't let it go to her head. UD is constantly tamping down her Dame Edna Everage tendencies ("This show, possums, is... all... about... ME!!"), and I pledge to you that she will never relax her vigilance. Possums.
Posted at: 11/24/2004 08:50:00 PM