Month: October 2005

Scalito?

Bush is expected to announce his nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court at 8 AM today. Alito is currently an appellate judge for the 3rd Circuit, but was not among the judges who ruled on The Circle School v. Pappert.

The Washington Post portrays him as conservative, but not inexorably so, and has this to say about comparisons to the dear Scalia, “His opinions and dissents tend to be dryly analytical rather than slashing.”

I guess we’ll see.

I’m ba-ack!

Well. After an unplanned hiatus, I’m back. I’ve switched hosts (the last one ate the SQL database that housed my blog, and was less than responsive to my pleas for help) and spent way too many hours trying to recover the stuff that I hadn’t backed up or was eaten. I lost much of May, and probably some comments, but overall I’m pretty pleased with the extent to which I was able to recover. Many thanks to Google’s cached pages. The poetry and gallery sections are not yet working, but I hope to get to them relatively soon. We’ll see.

Anyway, while I’ve been gone…School has continued to go well, and I’m now really excited for the coming semesters. It sounds like I’ll be able to tailor my McDaniel experience to my interests (well, interest: creative writing), and my advisor has been amazingly supportive so far. I haven’t officially made the switch yet, but I think I’m going to drop the Political Science piece of my major (I was English/PoliSci with a Writing minor) to give me more time to do the extra creative writing stuff. Again, we’ll see.

Non-academically, I am still loving my apartment here in Westminster, and I’ve made some on-campus friends I’ve really been enjoying spending time with. It’s also wonderful to have my sister here.

I would like to say that I will go back to updating regularly, but November is National Novel Writing Month and I have been convinced to undertake this insane task. They recommend lots of boasting before November starts so that failure to write 50,000 words carries with it a large dose of embarassment. So here’s my boasting: I’m gonna write 50,000 words in November! Yikes.

For now, I’m going to go do the dishes.