December 29, 2021

Encountered AS at the bagel store. We chatted. When I inquired about matters at UNCA, she made the face all faculty make when asked that question, a complicated play of disgust, disappointment, remote hopefulness. It cannot get better without a radical revisioning along exactly those lines which any presently conceivable administration would reject out of hand.

Red-bellied woodpecker is the sunny ghost of my yard.