The Chronicle of Higher Ed interviewed me a while back, and asked me about my daily read. It's a bit strange, though…lately my reading has dried up and been replaced by typing. Gotta fix that.
One really troubling thing, though, is the portrait they included — I presume it was made from some photo floating about the web. When did I get that old?
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