Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
3/20: bureaucratic non-hurdle
One of my advisees at school needed an exception to an administrative rule, and I was in the best position to propose the exception and then route the request. I expected that the whole thing might take a week of email exchanges and explanations. But it didn't. It took half an hour. My student now has her exception, and I had the pleasant surprise of bureaucratic smoothness late on a Friday afternoon. A good way to end the work week.
a blessedly empty calender today, i can go at my own leisurely pace with only my own needs to attend to
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