It’s here.

Infinite Jest arrived in the mail today.
First impressions?
A textbook. It looks like a textbook. So that’s the approach I’m going to take to it, I think. Not in the sense that it’s a tedious requirement, but rather that it’s meant to be a more encompassing experience, inviting learning, engagement, change.
Speaking of which, [...]

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Infinitely Effed

Note: I promise not to keep up the “infinite” titles. Annoying as fuck, they are.
Either Infinite Summer is bigger than I think it is, or Borders and B&N are worse than I think they are.
It was a Kafkaesque experience, really, my search for the book. Three Barnes & Nobles and a Borders, three [...]

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Forecasting “Infinite Summer”

So I mentioned below that I plan to embark on Infinite Summer in a few days.  I’m also planning to take Wizard along for the ride.  We’ve never “co-read” anything, partly because I read for work and partly because our tastes diverge quite a bit (oh, and partly because we’re not really the co-reading type, [...]

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Photo Friday

Some people are very good at weekly features.  I’m not one of them.  But I am in favor of keeping this whole posting thing going, so here are some baby feet from back in April:

By the way, I’ve done two work-positive things this week:  I’ve committed to the diss. writing group at school and have [...]

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In which I come to you with a dilemma

I’m just on a roll here, huh?  Blame the grandparents.  They’ve been staying with us the past couple of days, allowing me to catch up on sleep.  And blogs.
So, remember how in that Random Tuesday post I was all, “Why did you guys let me join Facebook?”  Well, it strikes again.  And not in the [...]

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It’s gettin’ frivolous up in here.

Not that it ever wasn’t frivolous in the sense that I’m not writing for money, or providing serious cultural commentary, or giving advice, or whatever.  Maybe the frivolous refers more to my state of mind.  I’ve been doing some internet stalking again. (You can read about previous adventures in stalking here and here.)
I KNOW.  Here’s [...]

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Random Tuesday: “Back So Soon?” Edition

Remember the time I resigned my very important work here only to return in like a week, meaning that this post comes sooner than the posts that were posted before I stopped officially posting?
Yeah.  That was dumb.
So I’m back today because The Un-Mom makes it easy on me, as usual, by eliminating the need for [...]

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