tuesday, april 13, 2004
my mom joked about monarchy
at usc, where he teaches, there is a resident faculty program. many of the dormitories have live-in professors, who coordinate building activities, advise students, lobby for less early-morning noise, and do other useful value-adding things.
kevin starr was thinking about being resident faculty for a certain building. the architects who designed the building’s faculty apartment made sure it had floor-to-ceiling bookcases, two kitchen sinks, a walk-in closet, and various other nice decisions.
then, he decided not to move in, since he had just got the state librarian job and would be living in sacramento most of the time anyway. that left a resident faculty apartment empty, so usc looked for some other faculty to live in it. they picked my dad (an english professor).
i live in an apartment designed for kevin starr. cool stuff.
i ate dinner with him a few times, too! at least, with him at the table. that is one joy of college dining halls: sometimes, famous professors eat the same crap you do.
comments (1)
he is pretty cool. i wished i live where you live.
but instead i visit, because that nice house has become a territory war. ex: the garden ledge converted to workspace converted to make-evil daughter-mad-couch-place. maybe sometime, once the competition over people and territory, has come to an end and certain fathers have come to their senses, i will once again live in this wonderful place you talk of, and eat that crap food once again.
– mr. amoeba man on 4/17/2004 08:31:13
