Friday, May 07, 2004
(6:51 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional
As Friday is the day Jesus died, it has traditionally been designated as a day of penance. In light of that long-standing tradition in Christianity, The Weblog will be running a weekly series of Friday confessions, detailing the most lurid sins committed by its proprietor and perpetual dictator, Adam Kotsko. So please enjoy this first installment of the Friday Afternoon Confessional, here at The Weblog, your one-stop destination for blogging excellence.
Tuesday night I was trying to work on the paper for my Karl Barth seminar and was making no headway whatsoever. After waking up at 6:30 AM, driving through rush-hour traffic, sitting through six hours of class without a meal, and then driving back through rush-hour traffic, I was too tired and frustrated to concentrate. Rather than simply giving up and playing Contra III, I stubbornly persisted, blind to the evil that would result.This has been the first installment of the Friday Afternoon Confessional, a new series here at The Weblog. Any readers with a guilty conscience are more than welcome to unburden themselves in the comments.
After managing to squeeze out most of a paragraph, I needed a supporting quotation. I looked in the index of Barth's Epistle to the Romans for everything related to eschatology, knowing precisely what I was looking for -- but after a full twenty minutes of digging through, I had not found it. With every minute, my rage increased, until I finally threw the book across the room.
