Later today (Thursday), I’m flying off to Chicago for a very very brief visit. I intend to be back late on Saturday. I doubt there will be much time for computer access during this visit, so things could be very quiet here.
I understand that the temperature in Chicago is expected to reach as high as 50° F tomorrow — which makes it somewhat colder than here — so I plan to dig out that coat. It doesn’t get much exercise, poor thing.
The law school has put the entire video of my installation into the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Endowed Distinguished Professorship up online. Unlike my prepared text, the video version allows you to see the other presenters, including my good friends Vice Dean Patrick Gudridge, Prof. Jonathan Weinberg and Cindy Cohn, as they do their job and vastly exaggerate my accomplishments. There’s even a surprise guest appearance by Prof. David Abraham at the end.
All you have to do is listen to a lecture first, starting at 5:30 on Monday, April 4, at the Lowe Art Museum. RSVP by March 30th — that’s tomorrow — to events@law.miami.edu.
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All you have to do is listen to a lecture first, starting at 5:30 on Monday, April 4, at the Lowe Art Museum. RSVP by March 30th to events@law.miami.edu.
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My flight to New York this morning was canceled, and I was rebooked on a later flight, one that will cost me some socializing time, but should still get me to town in time to see Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice. I have, I think, the second-worst seat in the house, very back row, one seat away from the far right. Given this is a hot ticket, I’m probably lucky to have it, even at this inflated price, easily the most I’ve ever paid for a theater ticket in the USA. As the ticket is non-exchangeable and non-returnable, a very late (or canceled) flight could be very expensive indeed.
Anyway, if you are reading this around 11:00am, and it hasn’t been updated, I’m probably on board waiting on the tarmac….
Update (3:30pm): Made it.
While you were having your vacation I was, among other things, enjoying various bits of diagnostic medicine, most of it fortunately not too invasive. Most of the tests were routine, one — that my doctor called “semi-routine” — was due to an inconclusive result of a routine test, and one was an ordinarily routine test made more salient as it would also rule out various unpleasant possible diagnoses not inconsistent with my condition. I might have been tempted to call some of it defensive medicine, except that with my recent history there do seem to be reasons for what otherwise might seem an excess of caution.
Anyway, all the results are now in, and they’re all good.
So here, to celebrate, is a video about luck:
Maybe I belong in the video?
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