I am at the library. It is 4 in the afternoon and I am going home to eat and read some more. John and David Totten and Meg Martin are currently en route to our apartment from Missoula Mt. It'll be fun to see them.
So far, the quarter is going pretty well. I'm still getting the hang of teaching, and I'm trying to figure out exactly what I'm doing here. That is a strange paradox; on the one hand, I absolutely love being in graduate school, while on the other, it often drives me crazy. If I wanted to be more analytical, I could tell you exactly what does each of these things, but I don't feel like doing that right now.
It's still pretty lonely here for both of us. That's partly my fault; I'm so busy most of the time that I can't really put a lot of time into meeting people. There are a number of people that some of you told us about that we haven't called yet. I have a group of people I know in the program, but there is a big difference between colleagues and friends. I'm sure I drive a lot of my friends crazy with my philosophical/literary ravings; so you would think I would be happy as a swine in excrement being around other raving lunatics like myself. I'll admit, its fun, but not everything. It goes to show we are far more complicated than we think ourselves to be.
And then the election. What a bloody mess. I don't even want to talk about it.
Tomorrow night Capria and I are going to a Halloween party held by a fellow English grad student. We're supposed to dress up as something literary. I'm never good at coming up with costume ideas. I see Halloween as yet another one of those regularly scheduled opportunities for indulging in liquid adult-candy, which I do. Anyway, I think we are going to go as postmodern punk-rock versions of Oedipus and Jocasta. Kinky, I know, but it was the best I could do on a limited budget.
This post is really funny. Have a good weekend, everyone. Read poetry.
Posted by pjaussen at October 29, 2004 04:31 PM