another day at the office

so i decided i hate putting pictures of myself on the internet. don't look down.

on the other hand, i DO like putting pictures of my cat on the internet, even though that was something i said i would never do. in 8th grade, i said i would never smoke and i would wait til i was married. every time i drink tequila i swear i never will again. and now, there are pictures of my cat on the internet. so? he's cute, he's on facebook, i didn't make a website with a purple background with dancing sweaters, and i still only have one of him. everything's fine, nothing's weird, i'm not crazy.

it's warm again. and totally humid. gross. i hate weather. i would prefer to live in the complete absence of weather where i can choose to be wearing a tshirt or a sweater based only on my own feelings and not what's going on outside. basically, i miss san francisco, and this will get a lot worse come winter.

i'm going to be courtney love for halloween. for real this year. for REAL. not because i'm obsessed with courtney - i would actually bet ten dollars that she's doing a not very good job of raising francis bean - but because i would give anything to have been married to kurt cobain.

i'm also looking forward to thanksgiving, because jake is coming. he sent me a package with comic books and asian candy, which arrived yesterday. the candy is pretty much gone, but i don't think i'll be able to read the comic books until he gets here.

that's all that's happening outside of my academic pursuits. inside them, i am entering crisis mode, which strangely coincides with "party and get out of town" mode. i have a presentation today (all set, excited about it, sneezed and there was a five-page writeup about it on my computer, wearing my new dating-a-parisian-sailor-circa-1920 shirt), a presentation next friday, a paper or review due the 26th and an annotated bibliography on the reception history of j.d. salinger's "a perfect day for bananafish" due on halloween. i know that that doesn't sound like too too much for one month, but as professor najarian said last night, "there is a tendency in the profession towards hysteria." my opinion is, without that hyseria, none of us would get anything done.

also, this.