Saturday afternoon confession

I'm spending the afternoon reading. A novel. For fun.

I have work to do.

I always have work to do.

I'm loving loving loving the novel I'm reading, so I'm neglecting my work. Or to put it another way, I'm taking a day off.

The novel's called Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman.

Yesterday I completed the paperwork for my third-year review.

I have a chapter to write. I have work to do for teaching. But I'm going back to my novel now.

This really does feel like a confession.

one of my favorite lines from Lanham

"No idea comes to us without traces of the company it has kept. We have always wished in the the West, and especially in America, that this were not so" (19).

One of my favorites because it highlights the sociality (word?) of ideas interacting with one another. They're not objects, they're not property, they're instead keeping each other company.

Lanham, Richard A. The Economics of Attention. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.