Sick as a dog, but half as hairy.

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Jumping through the hoops.

Some things have gone wrong over the last week, and I currently have no idea where I will be living and studying this summer or in the following year. I am pretty freaked out about this, and my "future", and especially scared about the possibility of not ending up doing my year in Japan after all. I am pretty sure, after all, that one cannot do good research on a literature that they can't actually read.
I also have two presentations to give this week and approximately five response papers to write (half of which are already late). All my classes and all my reading is theoretical, averaging about 200 pages per class per week, and my attention span is somehow just not what it used to be. I, rightly, blame the internet.

One good thing makes up for almost all the bad, however: I have a new pair of jeans. They are long enough, I like the color, and they are comfortable and have rather cutely-shaped back pockets.
They retail for $100. I paid $20.

Nothing soothes the heart like a bargain.

To remember Vonnegut:

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”