No baby news yet. We’re still waiting. K8’s parents are coming up today, since they’re getting anxious (and there’s not much else to do). Hopefully soon?
Meanwhile I’m writing thesis memos to students, playing Zelda on our new Nintendo DS, editing two “revise & resubmit” journal articles, watching The West Wing on DVD, and hoping to wrap up some rough chapters for my manuscript. Gotta keep busy.
Also, K8 got me John Lynch’s Simon Bolivar: A Life
When I first decided I was going to pursue a PhD, I declared my intention to write a political theory dissertation on Bolivar’s works. Once it was explained to me that political theorists were American or European, and that my interest fell into the realm of “comparative politics” (not “theory”—apparently to understand Latin America one needs to read Marx or Gramsci, but not Latin Americans), I abandoned the project. Anyhow, now I’m back to reading a new biography (the first new, major scholarly English-language biography in nearly 50 years!) of one of my favorite historical figures. You might say it’s my favorite present. I’m flipping through it (using the index), with plans to through it more carefully later, but so far it is not disappointing.
