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proximoception2006 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.
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Date: 2007-01-11 02:34 pm (UTC)I have a list of books/authors I wanted to read and never got to, since I had to read a bunch of travel books for a month at year's end. Hoping for this year. Two new courses and the bookstore ordered books by Mary Shelley for my PBS course. Nice. Best moment in first day of that class: I passed around an attendance sheet with spaces for students to write their contact info in (if they don't mind sharing it), and then I saw one kid in the corner grinning ear to ear. I asked what was up, and he said, "I'm thinking of all the cute girls whose email addresses I'll have now." Awkward! He was right, but what to say?
so here's my list of shame:
Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity
The Beholder: The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe
Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition
Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting (Cornell has owed me this for 8 days now)
The Sabbatean Prophets
Indiscretion
new Aeneid
The Uses of Enchantment
The Mystery Guest
The Line of Beauty
Be Near Us
Colors Insulting to Nature
Nora Ephron
Fountain Overflows
Sala's Gift
Amy Hempel
more Robert Stone
Good luck with the app.!
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Date: 2007-01-12 09:37 am (UTC)