The Basics

Owing to an escalating case of blogger's envy, I've finally decided to give in and start one up in the good ol' tried-and-true journal style. I have two others, one a kind of hyper-modern commonplace book and the other a free-form writer's notebook for a novel I'm working on. As far as I know, those two have an audience of maybe three people (including myself). With any luck, this one'll make it to four.

As for today, what's going on? I'll tell you - not much. Up at 6:00. To the gym by 6:30, where I stretched and worked on chest and tri-s. Then back home to comment via email on the writing of a Korean high school student I'm tutoring. 11:00 finds me at Penn for the undergraduate Shakespeare lecture and the Pedagogy graduate seminar that follows. Then back through the city to TLA to rent My Own Private Idaho for class on Friday. Some comic book purchases at Atomic City. And then back at the computer to submit a response on Third World cinema.


And what's up for the night? Reading, reading, reading. Marwick's The Sixties, Cohn's In Pursuit of the Millennium, and O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys. I'd love to do something else: go out for dinner, grab a beer at the dive bar around the corner, or - most of all - have sex and go to bed. Unfortunately, this winter has seen a short supply of money, nearby friends, and sexual partners. With any luck, all this will change come spring.