Things to Do/Things Not to Do during the break
Things To Do:
- Write final paper for Barrett
- Read Aristotle Poetics, Rhetoric, Nicomacean (sp?) Ethics for Flatley
- Read Plato Republic for Flatley
- Read Freud/Breuer Studies in Hysteria. . .Flatley
- Read Ulmer Internet Invention (Started, but so long ago I have to restart)
- Read Barthes A Lover’s Disourse (Started)
- View 24: Season 5 (Started)
- Purchase Tarnation, Koyaanisqatsi, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid to Ask DVDs
- Romantic despair. Because of Barthes and others.
- Read Shaviro Connected: Life in the Networked Society
- View Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
- Celebrate crass commercialization of paganized Christian holy day
- Pretend to care about New Year’s Eve
- Sleep as much as possible between scholastic and social obligations
- Begin grad-school reading list for Jessica-Royanne-Me undergrad workshop project
- View likely to be Oscar nominated films
Things Not to Do:
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Resign from PhD program in frustration
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Succumb to feelings of social inferiority
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Throw myself from roof of 5057 Woodward
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Drink cyanide
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Eat rat posion
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Slit wrists
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Anything to make myself happier (haha)
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Embrace Catholocism
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Fret too much over possibility of Dems losing control of Senate
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Write bad poetry
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Post inconsequential, rambling, solipsistic blog lists–dammit!
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Abandon academia for wage-slave retail career
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Sleep. ("I’ll sleep when I’m dead.")
Things I’d like to Do but Either Can’t or Won’t
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Write epic semi-autobiographical novel that Time magazine praises as "the sudden, unexpected appearance of the new master of American prose."
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Develop brilliant new philosophy of language and discourse that makes people forget about that chump Derrida
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Reread House of Leaves (started but need to use time elsewhere) and read Only Revolutions
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Write long, complicated letters to people justifying our presences in each other’s lives [Part of an idealized project of mine called Justifications that is all about justifying my own existence. I haven’t written anything for it yet, mostly because (a) I’ve done nothing to justify my existence yet, and (b) I just now invented the project. But more (a).]
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Learn CSS and HTML.
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Reinvent the wheel. Why not a square?
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Learn guitar, piano, bass, and drums; write, record, produce and distribute revolutionary pop rock album; embrace rock godhood and die in pool of own vomit. Alternative: die in plane crash; nation mourns. Alternative: killed by crazy fan.
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Catalogue list of CDs I own, favorite tracks on each, and favorite lyric in those tracks. Post to blog.
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Tell her. This is both can’t and won’t. The perils of self-awareness. As Morrissey explains: "Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you, from doing all the things in life you’d like to." [From "Ask"]
