Friday, August 10, 2007
(12:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Win-Win
I confess that one day this week, I finished off a box of cookies and then realized that I was doing so primarily for the sense of accomplishment. I confess that it was a desperate gambit, but it worked.I confess that when I erroneously received a used jazz CD in place of an anthology of Hadewijch's mystical writings through Amazon, I ripped the CD to my computer before returning it.
I confess that this guide to productivity only listed a few things that I wasn't already doing in one form or another. I confess that the non-fungibility of time sucks.
I confess that I want to learn more about jazz, and Brad's weekly feature is helping in that regard. I confess that I also want to learn about film, and that I bought a cheap guide to calculus off Amazon, in preparation for one day gaining a layman's knowledge of this "set theory" thing people talk about so much. I confess that I want to buy a copy of the new edition of Limits to Capital so that I can re-read it more closely with underlining, but I'm a cheapskate.
I confess that there are many aspects of my general education that the PhD process is forcing me to neglect, and I'm starting to think that that's no accident. I confess that I'm glad that I am at least in religion, which is (arguably) as close to the Department of Everything Studies as one is likely to get.
I confess that I sometimes read Adorno while listening to jazz.
I confess that it's well past midnight in the United Kingdom, so I'm posting this early in honor of our beloved British readers.
UPDATE: I confess that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is a dumbass:
Blagojevich also criticized the number of pork-barrel projects.I'm sure we could come up with follow-up jokes, all equally hilarious:
"It's got so much pork in it that if you were to hold the budget document itself, you'd probably be unable to hold it because it's so greasy," Blagojevich said.
- "I sure hope someone brings napkins to the negotiations! Or better yet -- moist towelettes!"
- "We should change the name of this document from 'Illinois State Budget' to 'The Other White Meat' -- get it? Are they still doing those commercials?"
- "Like Porky Pig, this budget catches the state legislature with its pants down."
- "All this pork, and yet the legislature still failed to bring home the bacon for the state of Illinois."
