hypochondria?

a catalog of injuries i currently honestly believe i have:

cold (x 2)
sore throat, cough
caffeine withdrawal (minor)
alcohol withdrawal (minor)
earache
cavity (x 3)
lasting back and neck problems
carpal thumb-al

Things That Lord Byron Is Said To Have Done That I Have Not
Kept a badger as a pet
Compiled an Armenian grammar
Refitted the Greek fleet in order to attack the Turkish fortress of Lepanto
Had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister


Things That I Have Done That Lord Byron Did Not
Floss

synergies

just now on the subway i heard one little girl deliver the clearest explanation of how to blow a bubble i've ever heard. i want to try now.

i read marcus aurelius's "meditations" a couple days ago. i /really/ wish i'd stumbled upon this sooner. i mean, i'm no stoic, much less a Stoic, but it directly addressed several of the moral questions i've been stumbling over. more on this soon.

current reading list:
e. l. doctorow, "the book of daniel"
foucault, "madness and civilization"
w. james, "the varieties of the religious experience"
ngai, "ugly feelings" (still)
m. amis, "yellow dog"
pynchon, "the crying of lot 49"
the rough guide to china
wallace, "consider the lobster"
nussbaum, "frontiers of justice"
banville, "the sea"

i love christmas book-buying.

Books, today and yesterday

Buber, Tales of the Hasidim: Later Masters
Franken, The Twenty-Seventh City
Polanyi, Personal Knowledge

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Decadence

Books purchased in the past two days

Steinbeck, East of Eden
Heschel, Maimonides
More, Utopia
Lethem, Gun, With Occasional Music
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
Rose, Black Noise
Hoagland, Donkey Gospel: Poems
Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems
Di Filippo, The Steampunk Trilogy
Wallace Stevens, The Letters of Wallace Stevens


Using gift certificates and buying used books: total cost to me: $35

Question: How Are Your Links Organized?

On my bookmarks bar:

•Columbia Spectator
•Regular Reading (pull-down: Slate, Salon, AL Daily)
•Reference (pull-down: various library database)
•Google
•Columbia
•News (pull-down: RSS feeds)
•Blogs (pull-down: Friends' Blogs)
•Essays (pull-down: Paul Graham, Malcolm Gladwell)
•Amazon.com


I can't decide if I like having pull-down menus of most/all of the sites I use or would rather have buttons for the ones I use most readily. Hmm. The crises of the not-working world. (For three more days.)

EDIT: Speaking of which, is it just me, or is Salon getting steadily more vapid? The more articles I read about how hard it is to fit into low-rise genes or hire a nanny, the more ashamed I am of having subscribed. I mean, Slate is always a little irritating, but Salon should be a home for decent journalism. More and more I find myself preferring Slashdot.

Also: I've realized that I really like magazines. This is all.

Speaking of which...

My bulleted lists there reminded me of a post I read awhile back: "totally just invented the best format for music EVER" (http://www.livejournal.com/users/qwantz/28155.html).


an excerpt:

Here is the Ghostbusters theme song in list format.
•Things I ain't afraid of:
•no ghost

•Strange things in the neighbourhood (partial list):
•seeing things running through head
•invisible man sleeping in bed

•Things that make me feel good:
•bustin'

•Who you gonna call:
•Ghostbusters
•I can't hear you
•Louder



Regarding Istanbul

•Istanbul:
*not Constantinople
*a Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every girl in Istanbul:
*lives in Istanbul
*does not live in Constantinople

Old New York:
*once New Amsterdam
*unsure why it was changed -> popular?

Constantinople:
*long time gone
*got the works




To which I add

That's noooobody's business but the Turks.....

(I've Forgotten How To Blog)

Movies I Want To See
•Batman Begins
•Howl's Moving Castle
•Hustle and Flow
•Saving Face
•The White Diamond (http://filmforum.org/films/white.html)
•The World
•Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Books I Want to Read (This Summer)
•1599
•Kafka On The Shore
•The Emigrants

Things I'm In the Process of Learning
•How To Rent and Furnish an Apartment
•Perl

Supreme Court Decisions I Disagree With But Grudgingly Respect
•Van Orden V. Perry

Governmental Branches With Terrible (c. 1995) Websites
•Judicial (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/)

Problems With This Blog Post
•Alphabetization
•Bulleted Lists
•Lists With Only One Member
•Not Funny
•Self-Referential "Problems With This Blog Post"

Numbers Higher Than 7
•Nine and a Half
•63