(8:48 AM) | Adam Kotsko:

Friday Afternoon Confessional

I confess that I've been in a pretty bad mood since my car accident, especially since it seemed to happen just at a moment when I felt like everything was falling into place. I confess that spending a week discussing yet another Christian leader's idiotic and hateful statements did not help.

I confess that I'm getting tired of Lewis Lapham's monthly colum in Harper's.

I confess that last night I had dinner at a really great Thai place -- I was more satisfied with my meal than I have been with any meal in recent memory -- and now I can't find it in the Yahoo Yellow Pages to share with you guys. It's on Lincoln between Belmont and Diversey, closer to Belmont, on the west side of the road. It seems to be pretty new.

I confess that I want to lock myself in a library somewhere and just plow through some stuff. My mind has been far too scattered lately. I recognize that taking a kind of "break" from doing any really hardcore academic work probably makes sense a couple weeks before starting a PhD program. I do need to spend the bulk of this weekend on German, though -- my exam is on Tuesday.

I confess that last night I bought several Agamben books and that I am determined to understand Homo Sacer by the end of the semester, even if I must sell my immortal soul to Satan in order to do so!

Confess, my lovelies.

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