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Another week of crazy ups and downs. Still flying high on securing tenure at NYU but dragged down by the fact that a lot of the day to day bullshit remains the same. The next item on my list is to get myself nominated for the Grolier Club--a seriously uptight club for rich book collectors in a townhouse on the upper east side. I have...
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I'm finally back from my California Love Jam Holiday in the Sun. I physicaly returned early Monday morning, but it's only now I feel I'm mentally back home.

My time in San Francisco turned out to be much tamer that I had imagined. I saw a couple of old friends for dinner and ended up not leaving until very very late. I foolishly smoked up...
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Holy bejeezus, what a week.

On Monday I got the official news from the Dean of Libraries that my tenure was approved by the university provost.

As of September 1, 2004 I will be a fully tenured faculty member. That's such a huge thing I cannot get my brain around it. Job security for LIFE. I mean, I'd have to do something pretty outrageous to...
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Went to the Valerie Steele lecture on the history of the corset at the Goethe-Institut last week. She was great and had some excellent slides that showed the whole range of corsets from the Renaissance on down. I've got to check out her book on fetish fashion (Fetish : fashion, sex, and power. Oxford UP, 1996).

Had a pretty fantastic 4 day weekend--an early blast...
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I have the best job in the whole damned world.

I spent a couple hours this morning opening up boxes full of Richard Hell's personal papers so we can start organizing them. One of the coolest things was a journal that Patti Smith gave Richard. We couldn't figure out whose handwriting is whose, but one of the first things in it is a dream about...
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Totally wiped out after Mother's Day weekend with the parents. It's amazing that no matter how old I get and how long it's been since I've seen them last, they always make me feel like a stupid 12 year old kid again.

But they're gone away and it's May and everything else is coming up roses. Or watermellons, anyway.

I'm feeling a little bummed about...
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Countdown to Elvis...

A friend and I have sworn a pact--we are going to watch every single Elvis movie. At first we said we'd watch them in order, but some of them are hard to find so we're just watching them as we find them. We're sticking to a schedule of every other Wednesday night. At this rate it will take us more than a...
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What could be finer than a spring day in New York City?

My peas are shooting up like gangbusters and there's heaps of lettuce and mustard greens ready for the pickin'

And best of all, the semester is nearly at an end and my life will become infinitely less stressful in less than two weeks.

Time to start leaning back and calming the fuck down...
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Taking the plunge with Mistress Claudia.


Although I'm still waiting for her to confirm, it looks like I'll be experiencing my first session with a ProDomme two weeks from tomorrow.

I'm quite giddy about the whole affair and keep asking myself "where will it end"

But that's what the living of life is all about, even if I do sometimes feel like I'm a cliche...
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Maybe I'll try adding some non-sexual content...

Spent a fine morning tending to my garden. It's almost time for my tomato plants to sit outside full time, which is excellent.

Going to hit the Union Square farmers' market for more plants and fine cheeses.

Mmmmm...

Fine cheeses.

Exercised myself and now it's time to bathe.