Hey, anybody need any ADVICE? I’ve got so much!! Way too much! Take some!
It is summertime here, which means 80 degrees, which means everyone’s like “oh my god it’s so hot” and we all draw the curtains and lie on the floor and/or go rushing down to the river with a whole watermelon. The Pacific Northwest RULES. I finally have a functioning bathing suit and I am hoping to get some use out of it before summer is over and/or I drop dead.
I’ve been plugging away at some sort of a to-do list, so I am feeling only like one half shiftless garbage and the other half okay. I revised a chapter of my book and sent it to a bunch of people asking for help. I read a David Harvey book. I’m halfway through another book about capitalism. It’s so funny because the other day I was talking about capitalism to my old man, and I was like “but what counts as capitalism? I mean, the Roman Empire had money and trade and private property, were they a capitalist empire?” And then literally the first chapter of this book is like “let me explain capitalism using the example of the Roman Empire, which, although they had money and trade and private property, were not really a capitalist empire,” and I was like THANK YOU
It is not every day that a random sort of complex question is answered accidentally in the first chapter of a book you just happen to pick up.
Books! they are our future*
Other stuff on my list is stuff like write a new article, and that seems too heavy for me right now. I did read a really epic thing about how to write the perfect job letter, so I think next up I will work on that. UGH, JOB LETTER. I’m so tired of you, job letter.
It’s also weird to me that when we all go on summer vacation, the people who work in the library, the bookstore, and in the various admin offices on campus are all still doing their 9-5. I bet they are all so glad we are gone. If my own example is any indication, they must be ceaselessly bombarded, during the school year, with the actual stupidest questions on the earth. When summer comes and all the professors, not to mention the students, are gone, they must be like “thank god I can finally get some work done around here.”
Finally watched Delocated, which rules.
Digging the new Arrested Development.
I got an email from Groupon that said: “Turn Your Home Into A Home Containing More Objects”
This is the kind of update you can expect from me over the next couple of months.
goodbye
*clearly not true
As someone who worked in several university libraries, I can assure you that your assumption re “thank god I can finally get some work done around here” is sound.
I worked my campus job over one or two summers, and it was a real joy to be on campus when everyone was gone. Of course, I also like being in empty office buildings, so it agrees with my sensibilities.
What was the book about capitalism?