I’m trying to figure out why I’m not excited about tomorrow’s graduation from the old homestead. I dislike graduations in general; they’re fine for marking accomplishments, but too many people turn them into endings, finishes, deaths of those parts of our lives that consumed all our time and energy. It seems almost as bad to [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Melancholia
Posted in Heavy Thoughts, School on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Connections and Contemplations
Posted in Light Thoughts, Stuff on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Personal goal #483 realized: I finished Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, something I promised myself I’d do back in 1989, when I had to shelve all those puppies in hardcover. Ugh! 120 chapters, 641 pages, and denser than an old-millenium forest. It covers everything from time travel to Templars to telluric currents that control the [...]
Coming to Play
Posted in Family, School on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Angie Lastrina, friend, confidante, and cohort from TCC. She’s coming to hang out with the hoodlums at the new homestead with me–yay! Way to go, girl!
Is it hot in here…?
Posted in Heavy Thoughts on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Aging is supposed to be graceful. One glides toward the sloughing off of this mortal coil like Jessica Tandy; marches forth to the beat of the drums like Katherine Hepburn. Aging is incremental, sneaking up on tiptoe feet with another marble to add to the scales, another problem, another number. Too many numbers, too many [...]
The Grate Gatsby
Posted in Reading on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, time to open my mouth and get slammed for it. I’ve had a running conversation with my lit professors over the content of the canon, and why certain authors are included as a matter of course (because they always have been), while others don’t have a prayer in hell even though their works are [...]
