Wednesday, September 14, 2011

So. Very. Tired.

Is it winter break yet?  We're nearing the end of week #3 of the semester, and everyone already resembles The Walking Dead.  I blame it oe the double-wammy of two natural mini-disasters occurring in the space of one week.  Earthquake + Irene = no beginning-of-the-schoolyear pep-in-the-step.  In other words, week #3 looks a lot like the exhaustion of week #5 or #6.

I'm doubly worn-out, having just returned from a visit to York College of Pennsylvania, where I did a reading and met with a senior seminar to talk about literature post-9/11.  I was jealous of the course's reading list:  all sorts of disturbing/subversive texts that engage with the terrorist attacks of 2001 and that consider "issue of representation" for the 21st century.   I want to reread Extremely Fast and Incredibly Close, Falling Man, and Windows on the World.  Is it winter break yet?

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