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See this phone? It's a fine phone, is it not? I liked it especially because it was so black and sleek and understated. However, I probably spend about 15 minutes a day hunting around for it in my bag because it is so very unobtrusive that I can never spot it and so smooth that it slides around my bags and away from my desperate grasps. I am beginning to understand the impulse to bedazzle phones with those tacky crystals: easy attainability.

Although it's hard not to feel irritated at all the time I waste with stupid shit like the above, I do feel energized and hopeful. Neetu and I have set up some weekly goals and I went for a run and I'm looking forward to some early morning writing sessions.

The Lists

TO DO WORK: Write chamoiseau close reading for c3. Write a first draft of research statement. Transcribe dvd. Analyze dvd for c4. Finish revising c2 (intro/signposting, performance of identity tie-in for both close readings, coda)
DONE! Read Ricoeur. Transcribed dvd. Finished Lesson planning for gwc.

TO DO LIFE: Pay down debt (currently $1,031.09). Procure dog. Go running. Buy suit. Read Therí's paper. Go to dmv and figure out car insurance. Get Tanya's present. Return boxes to the container store. Paint the bathroom. Resend Siff letter. Sell file cabinet.
DONE! Wrote letter to the board. Got scripts. Went for a run--so slow I was probably but a good start.

TO DO BLITZ: sarah, marilyn, giulia, irmary, mariana, dar, nv, sf, marzena, thérèse, toño, jerven, magdalena, staceymo, lara, guilan.
new subset: TO DO CALL: katie, hen, lauryn.
DONE! katie called me, does that count? I left lauryn a message: A for effort, Z for accomplishment. Blitzed guilan, lara, anak.

Netflixed

The Larry Sanders Show
I did, at times, laugh out loud while watching the first dvd in the series--mostly at rip torn--but overall, larry sanders in the dvd and gary shandling compiling it were both too similar, in their squirm-inducing failures, and dissimilar, in gary shandling's decrepitude and fragility, to watch so many shows in close succession. This is the major flaw of shows on dvd for me: rather than have the week's span to forget about certain annoying patterns in the show's template or have my suspense heightened, I get weighed down by having different variations on the premise shoved down my throat simultaneously. But since I'm the one doing the shoving, I can hardly ascribe these problems to the quality of the show, it's just the hazard of mixed media.