Category Archives: personal

The Value of an Education, Perhaps

I spent this morn­ing read­ing some of an essay by Hei­deg­ger, copy­ing down a poem of Yeats’ into the jour­nal (yes, I keep a pen and paper one). There’s Plato’s Gor­gias to fin­ish read­ing, and try to put together with the Pro­tago­ras and the Greater Hip­pias. I’m very happy with how the third part of …

August 27, 2010 – 12:54 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, personal | Comments (7)

Resuming posting the 20th…

I just need a few days away from this thing. I need to be read­ing and writ­ing inde­pen­dent of the com­puter. I want an arti­cle at least started the next few days, and I have a good idea how the writ­ing will go. Will have plenty to say 6 days from now. Take care!

August 14, 2010 – 3:57 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging, personal | Comments (6)

Trip to Iowa, 8/6 — 8/8

For the pur­pose of singing a wed­ding with Col­legium. They waited for me. On the plane I was told we would be delayed; there was no oppor­tu­nity to warn them. The delays seemed inter­minable. I was very wor­ried they would leave the air­port with­out me. The hotel name and address I didn’t know. A very …

August 9, 2010 – 10:55 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal, writing | Comments (10)

Attempted Justification, 6/20/10

Sub­ject to dele­tion when I reread and gag at how arro­gant this is I always do lots of per­sonal jour­nal writ­ing when trav­el­ing. It’s out of char­ac­ter with most of my jour­nal entries. Most of what I jot down are notes on books or poems with occa­sional rants. Some­times there are drafts of blog posts. So …

June 20, 2010 – 11:22 pm | By ashok | Posted in academia, personal | Comments (1)

Should I Go See “The A-Team?”

Josh and I had a con­ver­sa­tion about the rel­a­tive mer­its of the upcom­ing film. I think we noted that the exis­ten­tial long­ing and regret of Wild Straw­ber­ries or the dark com­edy of 8 1/2 might be absent from it. Still, I’m prob­a­bly going to go see this. I must have seen every episode of “The A-Team” …

June 3, 2010 – 11:11 pm | By ashok | Posted in movies, personal | Comments (7)