Friday, January 14, 2005
(9:50 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Friday Afternoon Confessional: The End of an Era
Tonight is the last night I will spend at the Bresee Avenue house. It will be good to live on a street not named for the founder of the Church of the Nazarene. As Tara Smith has aptly put it, this is the end of an era that was actually over already. Given that the era is over, perhaps she and her husband should move to Chicago; to join me in my letter-writing campaign to encourage such a move, please e-mail her at tsmith3 at olivet dot edu.I came late to my last day at this job, without having shaved. I turned down a moderately healthy breakfast to "save time" this morning and ended up stopping at McDonald's, feeding the beast by purchasing the new cancer-causing Sausage and Egg Biscuit. As a sidenote, whose idea was it to change the recipe on the cinnamon (sp.) roll? They used to be great, but now they basically suck. McDonald's should expect a marked decrease in my patronage of their restaurant. I officially announce to the McDonald's accounting department: your budget projections should reflect the fact that you can't expect to receive the same $12.00 over the next three years that they have received over the last three!
I confess that I have too many damn books. I might need to make an emergency Target run tonight to secure a new bookshelf -- together with one of those rubber filing-cabinet bin things, and perhaps a wireless router. Maybe I can't actually get all that at Target. Thankfully, though, there's an Office Depot on the same block as Target, just like in every soulless, generic suburban shopping area in America.
I confess to not having made any concrete efforts toward securing employment. I want to get some serious work done on "Smoke and Mirrors," or the Derrida translation, or just something. But I definitely plan on getting a job by February. Totally.
I confess that Dr. Grumish might have seen me blogging, but what's he going to do, fire me?
And this is more an announcement than a confession, but I've been accepted to Nottingham's MPhil program in theology. I'm going to wait to hear from other schools before making a decision, but I feel good about being 1 for 1 so far.
