My kingdom for a freakin scarf.

I am at the library, working on the BeastMaster. If I finish Chapter 3 today, which I am seriously aiming to do, all that will be left (haha, yeah, all) will be to revise. Favorite sentence so far that will nonetheless need to be edited out in post-production:


Assuming for a moment that “the end of the bourgeois ego” isn’t a jargon-bloated crackpot myth, this idea seems to be in conversation with the displacement that Cayce reports, but the two thoughts do not line up exactly.

As much as I would have hated to hear myself say this going into grad school, I have come to believe that some people go so deep into Theory Land that they lose touch with Reality Land. I love Theory Land, but I wouldn't want to live there.


My imagined relationship to my material conditions is not great at the moment. For one thing, I am usually cold, but the air conditioning is oppressive to the point where I have to prop the door of the quiet study room open. I figure that since you can feel the temperature drop several degrees as you come in, that might do some good. Although the good done temperature-wise is offset considerably, as expressed in the following equation:


very cold quiet study room + open door = very slightly less cold quiet study room


Also, on this laptop (Am I complaining? I am not complaining.) the touchpad mouse is very sensitive, and sometimes takes the sides of my hands brushing it as I type to mean "hey, highlight and remove all the text you happen to catch." I can usually get it back, but there's nothing quite like seeing 2.5 sentences you've spent several brain cells crafting disappear while you're in the middle of sorting out your next thought.


And, finally, the room checkout is on a two-hour schedule, while the laptop checkout is on a three-hour schedule. This is only convenient every six hours.


Can you tell I'm talk-y? Or write-y? Despite the last few days' depressing lack of progress on the BeastMaster, I am at least now willing to type a bunch of stuff. Probably should get back to typing a bunch of stuff related to the BeastMaster.