Dec 11 2008
Tonight
I’m about to go to a dinner at a friend’s place. She is a PhD student in my department and has no central heat. I hope to sit very close to the food, which promises to be hot and delicious. I must say that it takes some kind of animal-machine fusion cajones to make dinner for 8 people during grading and seminar paper week. Clearly there are things I can learn from this person, like how to not garret it out during this period - how to not rely on beautiful women bringing you dinner (separate occasion! Oh, yesterday, I miss you already) as you waste your evenings making sure all your footnotes are complete, listening to Glenn Gould on bad speakers. Anyway, I’m going to keep thinking about the food and this new 1980s flower-embroidered sweater that I can sport while fighting off the chill in my dinner friend’s ancient apartment. Will try and direct my attention away from the fact that my English fluency is down by two-thirds due to sleep deprivation and shut-in-related vitamin D deficiency.
