Friday, August 31, 2007
(12:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Far Behind the Curve
I confess that I joined Netflix this week. I feel ridiculously behind the curve -- for most people in my demographic, having a Netflix subscription is roughly equivalent to having running water. I confess that the first movie I put in my queue was The Parallax View, and I anticipate coming up with a Beautiful Mind-esque account of how Zizek's book of the same title (which never mentions the movie) is structured around the film on a rigorous sentence-by-sentence level.I confess that I'm very tired, in virtually every respect. I confess that allergies appear to be causing most of this.
I confess that I really don't want this semester to start. I'm going to be insanely busy, and then if all goes according to plan, I'll shift immediately into having almost nothing (at least nothing pressing) to do around the holidays -- a time of year when I always feel depressed. I confess that the process of studying pretty much full-time for my qualifying exams and developing my dissertation proposal during the spring semester sounds pretty good, though.
I confess that I always approach editing as though I'll have to completely tear out what I've written and start from scratch, but when I actually do it, it turns out not to be a big deal. I confess that other people's suggestions can be very helpful, provided you choose the right people -- hence my rejection of the standard blogospheric method of posting a draft for comments.
I confess that I'm pleased to have gotten an indexing job, pushing further into the future the date when I will have to implement fiscal austerity measures.
I confess that I never expected Twisty of I Blame the Patriarchy to come out in favor of the King James Bible.
