Friday, May 18, 2007
(8:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Extra-Special Sure
I confess that I have had a good week. The semester has ended, I've finished the 20th Century exam with a high pass, I've submitted a non-academic article (the precise nature of which will be disclosed when it is published), I've written a short book review for Reviews in Religion and Theology, and I've been informed that my truck has finally sold and I'll be receiving the money soon. I plan on finishing my grading soon and then spending next week working on my Butler paper, meaning that I'll be pretty well set up for a summer without financial worries and with wide-open horizons.I confess that I've developed a strange desire to read early modern philosophy. I confess that my wide-open horizon is slightly clouded by my medieval directed reading -- but what are such petty details to me?
I confess that I'm thinking of making those frozen vegetable sandwich patties a regular part of my diet, as a compromise between my desire to eat more healthy food and my dislike of cooking.
I confess that I don't actually mind grading. I'll admit that this might have something to do with the fact that so far I've only been doing one class at a time. It may also have something to do with the fact that I'm dealing with masters-level students rather than freshmen. I graded freshman papers when I was in college, and I remember it being pretty frustrating -- but I think I've become a much more patient, low-key person since then.
I confess that, this post notwithstanding, one must still be cautious.
I confess that the Mexican restaurants around my neighborhood use too many onions. Onions are not something I really associate with Mexican food. I confess that if they transplanted El Burrito Loco from Bourbonnais to Lincoln Square, I'd go there every other day or more. I confess that I've become mildly addicted to duck curry. Normally I dislike both tomatoes and pineapple, but somehow when you mix them both together and throw in some duck, I'm totally on board.
I confess that I may well just use two stamps in response to the postal rate increase instead of going to the trouble to buy 2-cent stamps, even though the post office is two blocks from my house.
