I had a semi-crazy girlfriend in graduate school who once commented to me–rightly, in retrospect–that we who spend our time in books and ideas tend to forget that we have bodies. That is, most of us are of the slovenly variety, our flesh dimpled and white and cheesy and gravity bound. She spend her afternoons [...]
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Academic Bodies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Academic Bodies, exercise, FAT on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Middle-aged Prof
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Academic Sex on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
She, young and attractive and deucedly alone: trying to get tenure at a big research one. He, middle-aged, tall and slender: tenured years ago, perhaps before she made it to high school. He could have passed for 45 if you didn’t look too closely. She was my neighbor, though we hardly spoke. Her curtains were [...]
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