Friday, February 11, 2005
(9:16 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: British Edition
I confess that although the confessional is almost always posted in the morning from the point of view of my American readers, for my readers in the UK, it is posted in the afternoon. Thus, it is accurately named.I confess that I fed the troll over at Infinite Thought's site, right when there was some hope that he was bored and would go away on his own. This stands in direct contradiction of my own extermination policy from last week.
I confess that I will not be joining Old and Discard at Duke next year, due to my abject failure to live up to their standards of excellence (or, alternatively, my failure to win a coin toss between me and an equally excellent student -- it's hard telling with these things).
I confess that the City Sticker system, wherein the burden of proof is on you to prove that you're not buying it late, is ridiculous. And I'll further confess that it's ridiculous that the city clerk's office didn't tell Hayley that we'd need a lease to document the day we moved in when they told her that we had a 30-day grace period. It's basically ridiculous that so much seems to hang on who happens to answer the phone when you call.
I think I might be able to finish the first draft of my translation by the end of the day, assuming that I don't just goof off on the computer until 2:00.
Okay: focus.
UPDATE: Haven't quite focussed yet, but here's a link to a satirical piece by Dan Green of The Reading Experience, the blogosphere's foremost literary literary blog.
UPDATE: I confess that I look out the window every twenty mintues to see if I've gotten another parking ticket. I have the form for a permit to allow me to park on the street like a normal person, and it says that I have to pay all parking tickets on file before I can get the permit. I am contesting three of them (two for parking a truck in a residential area, which I will probably have to pay, and one for not having the city sticker, which I will probably not have to pay since I'll hopefully be able to document that I was within the grace period), but I'd almost be willing to just pay them all so that I could get the permit and no longer have to worry about potentially getting a ticket every single motherfucking day. Or at least I'd be willing to pay the two that probably won't get repealled.
I also think you should probably read this interview with Alenka Zupančič, uncovered by Jodi Dean.
