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Jan. 11th, 2007 01:39 am2006 was the move back East, the funeral, the graduation, two or three months' worth of travelling, and the just-ended month of houseguests. My back died and I read very few books--maybe twenty, mostly short, not counting plays. Eyes so tired, free hours so scant. I have no memory of what else happened, presumably a lot. Gave away c. twenty volumes of Crowley, got five or six people to actually read them.
2007 will be the other graduation, 0 to 2 weddings, hopefully just one month of travelling. I get to reread the better half (both senses) of Shakespeare for credit over the coming weeks. I now have an exercise bike and quesadilla maker set to battle over my soul.
I've never been so tired. But not in a bad, depressive way. Just too much activity. Yet, next to nothing accomplished, past fair grades and transplanted household.
Books left in limbo include:
Ulysses from 2005, 670/700
Murphy, 110/150
Underworld, 700/800
Franklin's Autobiography, 120/150
Uncle Tom's Cabin, skimmed last third
Walden, half-ish
The Orchard Keeper, 50/200
The Crossing, 50/400, now given away
Abandoned various class books to skimming, after whatever point: boring old Genji, scattered Pillow Book, intolerable Paris Peasant, amusingly morbid Temple of the Golden Pavilion, harrowing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, that egregious Ruth Hall, the history textbooks.
What did I actually finish. For classes: Gradiva, Nadja, Daisy Miller (1.5 times), reread/skimmed Death in Venice & Dora; Kokoro, Vita Sexualis, Woman in the Dunes; Madame Butterfly; Song of Myself (twice)...a horrible play called Metamora, Douglass' Narrative, A Streetcar named Desire. For myself: Everyman; Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, Sunset Limited; His Dark Materials, Galatea; The Optimist's Daughter; Crying of Lot 49 for the 2nd or 3rd time; Mercier & Camier, Godot for the xth; finished 2005's Jude; lots of Mamet early on; Faust 1 for I believe the third. Odds and ends I forget. So, what, 25, mostly slim. No fair.
But I'm always reading. Poems, stories, first chapters, consultations, revisits. In darkest moments magazines. Just not books.
Not saying I want a year in bed but nights free would help. Another vacation like December and I am done for. I want to collect my thoughts. I forget what they even are.
GRE results today: 810. Clearly a different scale than the general test's, but good news anyway, I hope, for the application effort?
Why is my car still working. Why my body. I look forward to classes for the sitting.
2007 will be the other graduation, 0 to 2 weddings, hopefully just one month of travelling. I get to reread the better half (both senses) of Shakespeare for credit over the coming weeks. I now have an exercise bike and quesadilla maker set to battle over my soul.
I've never been so tired. But not in a bad, depressive way. Just too much activity. Yet, next to nothing accomplished, past fair grades and transplanted household.
Books left in limbo include:
Ulysses from 2005, 670/700
Murphy, 110/150
Underworld, 700/800
Franklin's Autobiography, 120/150
Uncle Tom's Cabin, skimmed last third
Walden, half-ish
The Orchard Keeper, 50/200
The Crossing, 50/400, now given away
Abandoned various class books to skimming, after whatever point: boring old Genji, scattered Pillow Book, intolerable Paris Peasant, amusingly morbid Temple of the Golden Pavilion, harrowing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, that egregious Ruth Hall, the history textbooks.
What did I actually finish. For classes: Gradiva, Nadja, Daisy Miller (1.5 times), reread/skimmed Death in Venice & Dora; Kokoro, Vita Sexualis, Woman in the Dunes; Madame Butterfly; Song of Myself (twice)...a horrible play called Metamora, Douglass' Narrative, A Streetcar named Desire. For myself: Everyman; Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, Sunset Limited; His Dark Materials, Galatea; The Optimist's Daughter; Crying of Lot 49 for the 2nd or 3rd time; Mercier & Camier, Godot for the xth; finished 2005's Jude; lots of Mamet early on; Faust 1 for I believe the third. Odds and ends I forget. So, what, 25, mostly slim. No fair.
But I'm always reading. Poems, stories, first chapters, consultations, revisits. In darkest moments magazines. Just not books.
Not saying I want a year in bed but nights free would help. Another vacation like December and I am done for. I want to collect my thoughts. I forget what they even are.
GRE results today: 810. Clearly a different scale than the general test's, but good news anyway, I hope, for the application effort?
Why is my car still working. Why my body. I look forward to classes for the sitting.
