>-----Original Message-----

>Sent: January 15, 2001 4:45 PM

>To: SPT-L@YORKU.CA

>Subject: separation anxiety

>

>

>What an awesome party last night!!!! I've never seen the 360 alive

>like that before. I missed David's class this morning - I have to stop

>overestimating my ability to deal with hangovers. It was worth it anyway.

>

>I just wanted to add my own 2 cents worth of salty eye fluid to the growing

>current. I think I've told this to almost everyone, but I just

>want to make sure. Choosing York was a kind of huge decision for me, one I kept

>second-guessing afterwards. I was worried the strike might make that

>second-guessing more than merely hypothetical. But it has had the exact

>opposite effect. I feel incredibly lucky to be here now. I am

>looking forward to working alongside all you beautiful people. Partying also.

>((All work and no play makes Colin neurotic))

>

>I am going through Shoreham gate separation anxiety. I miss it - I feel a

>bodily absence. Given that there is no way my body is missing the climatic

>environment at Shoreham gate in December-January, I am forced to

>assume that it is all of you my body is missing walking with.

>

>This is going to sound ridiculous, (or like some kind of ascetic

>bullshit, even though it's the opposite) but here goes: I think situations like

>the one we're in here now at SPT are increasingly rare. The program I could

>have gone to if I had not come here, at JHU, is well-funded and highly financially

>comfortable for an individual PhD student. Nevertheless, from what I have gathered, the

>greatest extent of solidarity going on there comes from the fact

>that they are all equally highly financially comfortable. They just don't know

>what they're missing.

>

>See you all soon and around,

>

>Colin