R.B.O.C. (what else a week before classes end?)

• I spent a ridiculous amount of time tonight listening to a few songs over and over instead of writing up a classroom observation after I made a series of fatal errors. I went to St. Mark’s, saw that there were no available tables and decided to work at home (mistake #1). I got home and looked in the fridge (mistake #2) and saw that my ex-husband/roommate (how enlightened are we?!) had stocked my favorite beer. I decided to have a beer—I mean, it’s Sunday night and I ran so many errands today and how much damage to my motivation could one little beer do (mistake #3). Well, the official answer is a whole lot.
• The songs: “Dirtbag” (Brad Sucks), “Microphone” (Coconut Records), “Time to Pretend” (MGMT), “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” (Cage the Elephant).
• Inspired by a more motivated academic friend, I’ve started formulating my summer reading list. On the personal reading list: Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kiterunner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen, and Stephen Dobyns’s Velocity. On the academic list: Linda Hutcheon’s A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms, Margaret Rose’s Parody: Ancient, Modern and Post-modern, Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, and Anne Wysocki’s Writing New Media: Theory and Applications.

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