Real equipment. Real space. An entirely different set of problems I did not know I would have to solve on day one. Finally secured a …
Six polite passes, each with its own specific reasoning. Reading them all together tonight, after finally getting a yes, taught me something I could not …
I grew up absorbing recipes by watching, no measurements, no written steps. Today’s class needed something I had never actually had to build before: an …
Six failed pots. One fifteen-minute phone call. The recipe I have been chasing for years, apparently, was never actually a secret. Attempted, for the sixth …
I said yes, and made him a version with exactly the same spice level as everyone else’s. He never noticed the difference, and I still …
Political history rarely resolves cleanly into either pure ideas or pure economics alone Friday. Attended a public lecture tonight on colonial American print culture’s relationship …
Less cynical manipulation than a genuinely different relationship between self and political argument Sunday. Spent the afternoon writing the chapter’s most difficult section, connecting my …
The line between political theory and personal feud was considerably blurrier in this period Wednesday. Spent the morning at the archive going through a batch …
Months of archival fury and quiet resistance culminate in peer review that responds with real human recognition I Submitted the Paper and a Reviewer’s Report …
Commercial merchant interests, not colonial censorship, turn out to be the actual force behind the altered ending I Found the Publisher’s Correspondence and It Confirms …
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