{"id":4438,"date":"2006-03-18T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/03\/18\/yu-needs-a-real-vacation\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:04","slug":"yu-needs-a-real-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/03\/18\/yu-needs-a-real-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"yu needs a real vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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is on a trimester system and has only a week between <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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exams (they just ended) and the new Spring semester.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a lot <\/FONT>of engineering exams.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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years ago, when he had a little spare time.  We can <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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perhaps all unwind and bliss out in his honor:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Yu Chang<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>– <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/STRONG>Upstate Dim Sum<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> <\/FONT> (2002\/II<\/FONT><\/A>) <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"honest\" potluck<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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I was planning to write some amazing punditry and commentary <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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on legal and social issues of great importance this afternoon. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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However, I just got a better offer.  May you have companionship<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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(and food) <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>as good as mine this evening (and avoid the Sobriety <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Poor Yu Chang.  He teaches at Union College, which is on a trimester system and has only a week between exams (they just ended) and the new Spring semester.  Yu can’t start his break until he finishes marking quite a lot of engineering exams.     It’s a good thing he wrote these haiku and senryu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-19A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12729,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}