was that Mai was so totally focused on the
hotel industry that she didn't really understand that I was taking a break from school for a year, and that I already had an MA. I wrote my masters thesis on Foucault (as represented in the cartoon), and this was a feeble attempt to re-establish my identity as someone other than a hotel desk clerk. (Not, as George and Jerry say, that there's anything wrong with that.)
A few other loose threads:
I was a Pi Kappa Phi, and left the fraternity in a snit in the middle of my senior year. (Among other things: they weren't as much fun when I wasn't drinking)
When I joined, it was just a few guys who wouldn't really fit into the other fraternities on campus, but by my senior year it was starting to look just like all the rest (which I had not even bothered to rush). There was a rather pointless argument about the true function of the annual ski-trip, and finally some dissension about whether we should change the fraternity constitution. I was actually initiated (contrary to some of the hate mail I recieved, along with Stu Dabbs), and never formally withdrew: technically I still belong, and they still ask for money.
As for the Spin Doctors, I guess I was implying that they were are one-song band... and yet they're still around. Who knew?
(I hope this post lived up to its title.)
2 comments:
I like how the paragraph on Foucault looks like a stormcloud hanging over the top of the picture.
Foucault's like that, particularly towards the end of The Order of Things.
But I'm also reminded of Will Durant's description of Kant, who, "is like and unlike Jehovah; he speaks through clouds, but without the illumination of the lightning-flash."
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