Writers whose works I love: Neal Stephenson, Thomas Pynchon, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Ishmael Reed, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Feodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and James Joyce.
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I am super jumpy. Didn’t run today—day off—and it was rainy and gray all day.
So I graded finals and portfolios.
And ate four Krispy Kreme doughnuts today.
These things may be related.
Queens of the Stone Age, ‘Song for the Dead’
Probably my favorite tune off ‘Songs for the Dead,’ which is really saying something.
Mark Lenegan is amazing.
QotSA, ‘Millionaire’ Live from the Basement.
Because I’m ready for new QotSA but refuse to listen to the leaks, official or otherwise.
I want the whole album all at once, officially.
Because I’m an idiot.
This is nice. But seems much more militaristic than Beethoven.
Rossini, ‘Overture,’ La Gazza Ladra
All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland. Ode to Joy indeed. The man didn’t even have a sense of humor. I tell you,’ shaking his skinny old fist, ‘there is more of the Sublime in the snare-drum part to La Gazza Ladra than in the whole Ninth Symphony. With Rossini, the whole point is that lovers always get together, isolation is overcome, and like it or not that is the one great centripetal movement of the World. Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. All the shit is transmuted to gold. The walls are breached, the balconies are scaled…
Done with today’s grading.
Let’s go invade Poland.
Weekends without work—what’s that like?
It’s pouring here, and I have to work, so it’s not so bad, but we skipped out on a family event because family, and I really want to drink bourbon and watch the rain.
Also, “Gatsby” sucks. They changed the very first line of the novel! Not like it’s famous or anything.
And they cut Daisy’s line about the longest day of the year and didn’t give us the clear sense that she steers back into Myrtle.
Joel Edgerton is fantastic as Tom, I will say that.
2nd Movement, the 9th Symphony.
Portfolios are going swimmingly.
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allisonunsupervised asked: Maybe I missed it-- did you find a bike? Still looking?
I have a couple of leads, but still looking.
I really want to find a new way to injure myself, so I figure ass over teakettle on a bike would really do the trick.
I’m grading portfolios, drinking coffee, and listening to Beethoven.
As one does.
Also, taking questions: What’s the Rumpus?
I guess this is supposed to be funny?
Combined for 8.28 miles in 93 minutes, but it’s strange that going up and around my loop clockwise is waaaay easier than widdershins. How can that be? I guess it has to do with slope and grade and placement of the climbs, but it still doesn’t make sense to my walnut sized intellect.
@Jack: only auto parts came up.
Hmm.
