i find i don't blog as much because of course when your thoughts are mostly about the academy it is impolitick to write about them. from now on i have decided i'll write the story of my parents. lots of people seem to have enjoyed the chicken story, so i shall go on in that vein and tell stories about their career and childhood and lives. i've been thinking that i know less about my grandfather than i like, and this is a way to think about my parents, and to write their biography for myself, for my children.