Discovery.

On my third day in a row of not going to campus, I suddenly discover that I have energy again, want to dance around or play with my dumbbells, and generally do not feel like a waste of space. For the first time in quite a few weeks, it feels like!
Needless to say, I can't wait until this week is over, and my summer legitimately begins.

Right now then, I am trying to come up with two papers. One is going to be a lot of fun, I think (in my way of saying fun). It's about using the "interview", or not using it, as a narrative technique in constructing histories of counter-cultural events. The events in question are Paris May '68, the Tlatelolco Massacre, and AMPO 1960 in Japan. And I'm looking at three different texts, one for each of these events, and their conscious use of the interview format in creating certain types of stories about these different histories. And thinking about how something like the interview can be used to subvert or challenge a more structured narrative, and what the limitations of the format are, etc. Fun? Yes, it is actually a lot of fun, at least conceptually.

The other paper is a crappy thing I never really got a handle on from last quarter, but need to finish this week anyway. It's a short kind of thing, 10 pages on a short story plus some theoretical aspect. I should be able to do it in two days? After I finish the paper I actually like to think about...yes, I can do this, I do believe.

Afterward I get to embrace a little freedom. And reply to a lot of emails.