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+title: 'Unplanned Absence'
+date: '2003-02-19T18:32:44-05:00'
+permalink: /unplanned-absence-2/
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+Sorry for the protracted radio silence; we’ve been in the home stretch of a search here, and I’ve been spending an astonishing amount of time going to job talks, conducting interviews, and generally glad-handing about. Then, in the interstices, there’s been that little teaching thing, and sometime late at night, occasionally, preparation for said teaching. So all my grand plans about regularity-in-posting were very quickly abandoned.
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+As of today, however, the search is complete, and I can get back to something approaching something like a regularly insane schedule. Expect more scintillating book-talk soon.
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+In the meantime, however, I’ll share with you this tidbit: yesterday in class, we wrapped up our discussion of Bruce Sterling’s [Schismatrix](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0441003702 "Schismatrix") (which is pronounced with a short /a/, instead of like a split-personality version of the Keanu Reeves [movie](http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?EAN=85392456628 "The Matrix, of course"), as Sterling rather pissily points out in the introduction to our edition), and I was very proud not to have to be the one to point out that the end state of the character Kitsune puts one a bit too much in mind of a giant vagina planet.
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