Finis!

Done I am done done done done done. It feels so good for me to be done done done. I'm a little punchy.

Plaid shorts

rock.

The end is very much in sight. I've only got a page left to go, and I really just can't get myself to write it. I have at least four hours until I need to leave for school - plenty of time to finish up, tweak my other paper, apply finalizations, and go. But I'm sitting here writing in my entirely unknown blog, yet again.

Here's a little snatch of poetry (or something) that I wrote the other day in my head and can't stop repeating to myself:

Corncob pipe and a whiskeyfried jacket,
Monkeys in the trees and a lighter in my pocket.

What the hell is that? I seriously love the word "whiskeyfried," though I have no idea what it may mean. I'm loving my tendency to be Joycean about the creation of words lately, inspired, in total, I am sure, by reading his masterwork.

Maybe if I keep writing in this blog, something cool will happen one day. I need to keep writing somewhere, at any rate. "Keep on movin' now...I gotta keep on movin' now." Anyone who names that tune wins a dollar.

Ohhhh oh, we're halfway there...ohh oh...

Livin' on a pray-er? Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear...

Surprisingly, or not really, I'm halfway done with my Ulysses paper at this point. Considering that I still have at least five hours to work with, things look good. And considering that I started at two, and am thus only two hours into actual writing, things look very good. At this pace, I'd be done by six. Then again, here I am, taking a solid break.

I seriously can't wait for school to be over, but I'm sort of savoring this final night of meaningful procrastination. It's weird, but I'll almost miss this kind of thing.

The 24 oz. Sevs coffee, the several open books around my iBook, and the bright lights of the kitchen beginning to hurt my eyes a little bit. Yeah, this is what college is really all about, if you ask me.

Ulysses, part deux

Well, here I am, once again procrastinating the writing of a paper for my Ulysses class. Luckily, I've already put a four-pager to rest for Professor Marshik's other class - 20th century British literature (or a reasonable approximation thereof). I'm linking a lot in this article, in that clever little way that we bloggers sometimes do. When I do that, you can assume I'm trying to burn up some time.

What soothes me is that time races inexorably forward toward tomorrow and that before day breaks (well, maybe not before day breaks, but certainly before 10:40 a.m.) I will have completed this beast - the last serious paper of my college career. Because I can't allow myself not to. I am a procrastinator and I wait until the -last- minute. I always have. And I'm going to get an A on this paper just like I always do, damnit.

Now, if only I could start it.

Elliot Perlman

Yesterday, I started reading The Reasons I Won't Be Coming, which is an early short story collection by Elliot Perlman (published before Seven Types of Ambiguity). I love this guy. Seven Types remains one of my most favoritest books of all time, and one of my main recommendations to other people who happen to ask for a good book. Perlman is genius. And Australian :)

Just thought I would write that down.

I'm pretty sure I have liver damage. As I definitely do not wish to wake up at the age of 35 and be a hardened drunk, with a wife who is about to leave him, I am going to cut down on the drinking activities at this point. Scary.

Faithless Promises

I said I was going to update my reading log over spring break and I didn't. I said I was going to read a whole lot (for school, anyway) over spring break and I didn't. Spring break was awesome, but now I'm just as behind as I was with my shit. Also, I haven't written anything here in a week. Yeah. New poems soon, though. I promise.

Someone tell me to stop starting new books before I finish the ones I'm currently reading. Also, I promise I'll update my reading log this week, as I don't have any school to worry about. I'm quite behind on that.

I think I'll try to write a little before work today. I'll post if anything cool happens.