I’m a terrible blogger lately! I’m sorry! I’m also falling ever so slightly behind on my 52 Books project, but capable of finishing at least three books I’ve begun this weekend. A lot is going on. Well, really nothing has changed in any tangible way, but my little world is shifting, and not in a [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 18, 2008
Covers
Most people in Denver are pretty ecstatic about the unseasonably nice weather we’ve been having (78 degrees today!). I’m enjoying it, too, but the neurotic part of me is a little bit disgusted by it because I don’t think it’s such a good sign for the world or things to come. A friend [...]
November 17, 2008
Simple, Declarative
Lately writing (since it obviously hasn’t been here): a paper for my abnormal psychology class on the mother character in When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale. Lately reading Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, plus a bit of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth and Oliver Sacks’s An Anthropologist on Mars. This weekend I saw my [...]
November 11, 2008
Train of Thought
One of the undergrads is hanging an installation piece in the lobby at work that is basically sheep or goats or something hanging from the ceiling. When I first saw it, I thought of Bruce Nauman, thinking he used something more livestocky than greyhounds in his animal works:
I think the hanging-ness of it somehow had [...]
November 7, 2008
Puppies!
I’m usually not such a sucker for cutesy things like this, but oh my, check out these little puppies!! You can watch them all day long! All night, even!
At first I thought I wanted to have one, but I’m pretty sure I actually just want to be one.
Sorry I’m not writing much lately — it’s [...]
