August 15, 2012

Kevin singing from his just-before-dawn pond. Bless.

First academic meetings, mostly painless, already a little overwhelming. Busy-work from administration constitutes, as ever, the biggest and most useless burden. The rest, the part that has to do with students and subject, is not a burden at all. The good academic administrator is the one who never has–nor at least never makes public–an idea of his own.

Colossal watermelon taken from the half acre of vine that has devoured the back yard.