Friday, December 02, 2005
(12:11 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Confessional: Go ahead, wreck your life
I confess that I was ideally positioned yesterday morning to be happy that it was snowing. I had to go walk around in it, since I had class, but I was also staying with a friend at the seminary housing, so transportation wasn't an issue. I confess that I've also been ready for the cold and that I've made up my mind to walk the distance to the train station throughout this winter unless it becomes absolutely impossible. I like the winter, now at least.
I confess that I didn't know how much I had been needing to get out of the house until I started working. I enjoy the walk through Logan Square and the walk through the Loop. I enjoy learning more about the geography of the city, branching out. I enjoy feeling like I have the Loop trains figured out now. I feel happier, having a job, and I'm even managing to keep up with school stuff more than I would have expected to in a situation where about 30 hours of my week are suddenly gone in the last couple weeks of the semester.
I confess that I enjoy the mozzarella sub from the University Market in Hyde Park.
I confess that Jean-Luc Nancy's book Au ciel et sur la terre really is intended for young children, between the ages of six and twelve. It's more than a little weird, but apparently Walter Benjamin also did some radio programs for kids. I confess that I find it satisfying to very obviously ignore people on the bus and the train by reading, but it's doubly satisfying when I'm reading a book in French. (They don't know it's a children's book.)
I confess that I try very hard to anti-cultivate an attraction to Asian women because I don't want to be that much of a computer-loving nerd. I confess that I was a little disappointed, therefore, when the cutest girl I've met in a while turned out to be half-Korean. [ALRIGHT: Yeah, this is kind of a dumb thing to say regardless, but it came across wrong. I meant to stereotype computer dorks as all having an Asian fetish -- it was that I didn't want to fall into the stereotype of a nerdy white guy who likes Asians, not that I have anything against Asian women. In fact, a great many Asian women are quite beautiful and interesting and what have you -- I just don't think that more true of Asians on average than of the women of any other race.]
I confess that I'm not sleeping well. I confess that I basically don't know what I'm doing. I confess that setting small, manageable goals is a key step toward mental health and wholeness. Getting through this year of coursework is one such goal. I confess that the seven week break between classes would seem a lot more fun if every single moment were not already accounted for, and even double booked.
Finally, I confess that it was nice to have the Rev. Bradley Johnson presiding last week and that I am open to the idea of co-bloggers officiating at either the Friday Confessional or the Tuesday Hatred, if they are interested. I also confess that Brad's titling decision last week, which may not have been conscious, was epochal, in that I am henceforth going to drop the "Afternoon" from the name of this weekly feature, for reasons that should be obvious to regular readers.
