Friday, January 12, 2007
(8:35 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Chicago Transit Apocalypse
I confess that the impending 25% cut in CTA service to the north side strikes me as a pretty bad thing. I confess that I may well join thousands of others and becoming part of the Vast Press of Humanity that characterizes the Blue Line -- not being able to move makes the ride go by faster. I confess that moving back to Kankakee might also be a good option, in terms of reducing my commute.I confess that writing a post about how I'm going to shut down The Weblog was probably not a great idea, given that I'm not actually going to shut down The Weblog. But it's not like this was the first time.
I confess that now I feel completely back to normal and that I'm a little disturbed by how depressed the holiday season apparently makes me. I was really on the verge of despair for a while there.
I confess that I find it excessive that the office at the Div School where we lowly seminarians must go to register for U of C classes is closed every afternoon, indefinitely, so that they can process applications for next year. Perhaps with all that extra time, they can actually proofread the rejection letter this time around. I confess that trying to find the post where I mentioned the misspelling, I found this disturbing thread. I confess that this post was perhaps a little naive on the question of careerism -- though I am of course resolutely and even defiantly careeristic, I hope that it is at least somewhat offset by such gestures as claiming that Milbank's writing exhibits "a certain reckless majesty."
I confess that reading through these posts about my decision-making process make me a little whistful about the prospect of not being in so much debt, but at least this should be the last semester I really need to take out student loans. I confess that donations are always welcome.
I confess that I overuse constructions involving the generic "one."
