(10:50 AM) | Adam Kotsko:

Friday Afternoon Confessional: TV Movie

I confess that I slept in as a result of a rearguard effort to maintain some sort of social life despite working from 4:00 to 10:00pm. I confess that I'd be willing to change to something like 2:00 to 8:00pm if need be, or even like 9:00am to 3:00pm. I confess that I'm looking forward to spending the entire weekend doing nothing but reading Gregory of Nyssa, because then I will be done with this patristics directed study that I started in June.

I confess that getting out of the house on a daily basis has done me a world of good. I confess that I was a little worried when my direct deposit, which is supposed to happen at midnight Thursday, wasn't there at 2:00am, but it's there now, so I'm completely fine and calm. Totally calm. I confess that I'm looking forward to shifting around my bookshelves to fit in some new purchases and even to paying bills, because I, you know, can. I confess that I have pretty well absorbed what I take to be the Pauline and general New Testament advice to submit to the governing authorities in the hopes that they will leave me alone.

I confess that I have stopped following the news from Iraq, having done the math and determined that no matter what happens, it will still be a complete clusterfuck. I confess that I have decided that in discussions with conservatives, I will counter their claims of Gore's wimpiness, in the counterfactual situation in which this country's electoral system had not been made a mockery of, by claiming that if Gore had been president, 9/11 wouldn't have happened in the first place, because Gore actually cares about real life and about getting things done.

Not that he's all our hopes and dreams embodied, of course, but anything's better than the worst-case scenario we're currently living through.

I confess that I might as well just post this now.

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