Sunday, April 25, 2010

Dawn of the Vermin

This is just a quick post about a phenomenon I've noticed lately. After a relatively calm winter and early spring, the last two weeks have been absolutely infested. I've seen and heard about cases of cockroaches (two dead ones in the hall) mice, spiders, giant flying unidentified buggy-thing, and suchlike. Why all at once? What is the message in all this? What is the frequency of so-called little visitors trying to tell us?

Perhaps I should clean my room...

Friday, April 9, 2010

I Miss Fiction

I was reading scholarly article after lengthy dissertation after weighty thesis after abstract paper and then I paused and I realized something...

I miss sinking into a good book. Into a world, where yes, you are using your brain, but you aren't so painfully aware of it. Where you care about the characters and thus learn truths about the world through human interaction rather than carefully crafted theorizing in the abstract realm. Where the story is paramount, but not all there is to find, either. With lessons subtle, or as running threads, rather than the main idea. Real life, rather than a list of historical events; even if not all the particular events in the story happened in real life, they are nonetheless true in a certain way, because they resonate with what you know and how you think about the world.

I like my classes, I like learning how to think in academia, but it's been much too long since I read a good fictional novel. I have to find something soon- maybe I'll head over to the library next week...