playing coy, that one.

Just a picture this evening -- Little B looks a little queer here.
Must read Spenser. I also need a primary text for Early Modern evening class. Boy.

a delinquent, don't you know?

So it is definitely harder to blog regularly this semester, but honestly all I think about 99.99% of the time is sleep (and food!), since I get about 6 hours on the days that i work. Like I should be in bed now if I actually want to get 7 hours. Sometimes I'm afraid to blog about academics so late in the evening -- racing thoughts = no sleep. So terse updates and upcoming things to do list and all things whiny:

• held my first "office hours" in the graduate reading room, but no one really came, which was easy and disappointing; of course then I bumped into two students who later asked for tips for preparing for the next exam, and then the emails that went something like " I got the fever and couldn't make it to class -- what was the assignment?" but "office hours" -- that kills me.
• This semester is awful in lots of ways. Two Early Modern classes and de Man. Okay, so for the next month the readings will all be Derrida. I mean, there are some fascinating questions coming out of my readings, but for the most part I am really bored and disconnected. None of this stuff really interest me.
• On the upside, I've worked out a quasi-independent study with a prof who is willing to meet with me to talk about research related books I read "on the side." do i even have time to read for that? More on this later.
• I want to check out Jennifer Egan since I am so out of the contemporary fiction loop.
• I added Zizek! in my netflix; listened to Radio Dept. (very good) and watch Shortbus. yes, it is graphic.
• want to just pet "Little B" instead of blogging.
• I need to read so much crap this week! But i'm also coveting shoes and make up? ugh. and a halloween costume?