Although still not all that thrilled about being back in Northfield, it seems like my classes this term will be excellent.

I'm excited to take French from Stéphanie Cox again, and equally thrilled to learn more complex grammar and to read actual (albeit simple) literature. We're starting with "La Bell et la Bête" (1756) by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

PoCo will also be highly rewarding. I like Arnab's tendency toward snarkiness (e.g. he relabeled "ideology" -- in terms of Althusser's application of the idea to the colonial machine -- "bullshit").

Poetics of Inscape damned well better be awesome since I'm in control of what I do. Hopkins is one of the few writers that get me really enthralled about poetry.

Currently listening to: John Cage et al., "Pulse! Percussion Works"

Currently reading: my racist French book, which includes in the vocabulary the phrase argot for "to murder French": "parler francais comme une vache espagniole."

Also, my sister Abbey just had her second child this morning. Her name is Lainey Ann Bailiff and she was 7 pounds 9 ounces.