overheard in providence

Last Saturday, moments after I had posted a condemnation of math education, Jessica read me an unexpectedly relevant blurb from New York Magazine. Julia Stiles, it seems, has long felt unsatisfied with her public elementary school education, and earlier this year she decided to voice her concerns to NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein.
During the Atlantic’s [...]

My girlfriend (a.k.a “Jessica”) regularly laments her lack of feline companionship. At this point, kitten acquisition by summer’s end appears inevitable. My primary concern is that a healthy subset of our friends claim to be allergic, and alas, the age of affordable hypoallergenic kitties has not yet arrived. More broadly, there seems to be some [...]