The school
grind starts in a day or so.
I have ‘prepared’
thusly.
Watched Dead
Poets Society. In full, for the first time.
Finished
reading A Short History of Nearly Everything –Bill Bryson
Watched
Fight Club.
Re-read
Stiff –Mary Roach.
Discovered
how to open ZIP, and other previously recalcitrant files in the Calibre e-Book application.
Lost all hope
of getting actual work done… and any desire to go out socially..
Searched
through a catalogue of over 3000 books, literally searching for a book by its
cover.
Found it,
and some others that I now, huzzah!, knew how to open.
Compiled new
reading list to be completed…
Fire to
Fire: New and Selected Poems –Mark Doty
Lying with
the Dead –Michael Mewshaw
Great House –Nicole
Krauss
Censoring an
Iranian Love Story –Shahriar Mandanipour
Occupied
City –David Peace
The
Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, Volume II, 1860-1867
Eating the
Dinosaur –Chuck Klosterman
(Incidentally,
started the above just before leaving when in NYC enjoying K-Jo, Green Point
and all the fish tacos the city had to offer)...
Eating Animals
–Jonathan Safran Foer
In Defense
of Food –Michael Pollen
The Botany
of Desire –Michael Pollen
Proceeded to
ignore above list, slip on my trusty spectacles and re-read..
A Time to
Kill –John Grisham
And made it halfway through The Name
of the Wind –Patrick Rothfuss..
While making
excuses for why I wasn’t blowing off steam in Rundu via SMS. (Am hermit).
Until I
realized my migraine wasn’t abating and it was 3 o’clock in the morning.
Things I
should’ve been doing:
Finishing the
surprisingly helpful manual compiled by RPCVs on the resource drive: Teaching English to Large Multilevel
Classes.
Perusing the
BIS and Art and Culture Syllabi that I have yet to download..
And nailing
down the basic framework of my scheme of work for the first term..
Or perhaps sticking to
my News Year’s resolution to stop procrastinating…
I fear
(hope) I shall repeat a similar performance today..
Now... Off
to make applesauce.