A lot more of the same at work, trying to get a few things off my plate (or as close as possible) before leaving for a four-day weekend.
I took a short break for one of our semi-regular “brown bag lunches” at work, where they give us pizza or sandwiches and invite somebody in to speak. Today’s speaker was Simon Critchley, chair of the department of philosophy of New School and moderator of the New York Times philosophy blog The Stone. It was reasonably interesting, although maybe more about publishing (and his history as author with our company), and less about philosophy proper, than I had expected. Still, not at all uninteresting, and free pizza.
Meanwhile, I’m taking the four-day weekend in no small part because my parents are away, traveling to Ireland for vacation on a group tour. I didn’t get a chance to see them off this afternoon, but I spoke with them, and expect I probably will again tomorrow after they’ve landed and settled in. The dog stared wistfully towards the door all evening, and maybe whimpered and sighed a little more than usual, but I think he’ll manage.
And that was pretty much my…what was this, Wednesday? Yeah, that was pretty much it.