I am experiencing a sudden, bizarre, overwhelming, burning desire to watch ‘Grosse Point Blank’. Like, I want to leave work and go home to hang out with John Cusack and Minnie Driver *right now*. Do you think they’d fire me for that? What are the odds I could get back downtown in time for school?

Huh. I appear to have developed a different problem with my schoolwork than I have previously encountered in my undergrad or even the first 6 credits of my M.A. I have developed syndrome, and I wrote too much! My seminar today is supposed to be 20 minutes long, involving the succinct presentation of my material […]