Friday, August 24, 2007
(12:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Always in Love
I confess that I have not been having a very good week. I confess that if I had to pick some particular moment when things took a bad turn, it was probably when my old insurance company called me to tell me that I was being sued. I was in an accident two summers ago, and apparently the people in the other car have been unable to reach a settlement. Suing me personally is largely a technicality, as the insurance company will continue to cover me in all regards -- at the very worst, I may have to show up in court, though they tell me these things rarely go that far. That said, being alerted that one is being sued remains a disconcerting experience and it threw off the fragile balance that I had struck with regard to other issues that have been weighing heavily on me.On the other hand, I confess that all three papers from the unofficial "Weblog panel" at last year's AAR (mine, Josh Davis's, and Daniel Barber's) have been accepted for publication in the journal Political Theology, to be accompanied by brief responses to the individual papers, an intro by panel moderator Nate Kerr, and a conclusion by Graham Ward. We are tentatively scheduled to appear in October 2008.
I confess that I don't know whether I'm ready for the semester to start. I confess that it looks to be a busy one. I confess that I am glad not to be serving on any committees, outside of the Student Liaison Group of the AAR -- a position that I will be glad to "hand off" at the end of the spring semester.
I confess that I was Scott Eric Kaufman's first.
I confess that I miss TV. The only shows I watch regularly that aren't currently in reruns are The Daily Show and Colbert Report. It's been weeks since they've aired a Futurama rerun I haven't seen, and though Robot Chicken has already started a new season, the episodes are (a) only ten minutes long and (b) not very good so far. I confess that I especially miss having cartoons to look forward to on Sunday nights, even though in actual fact only The Simpsons was consistently any good, but most of all, I miss House.
