days like today

days like today make me never want to stop being a grad student:

i woke up at 9, without an alarm. i made coffee and eggs in my pajamas. i then worked on my research project for about four hours. i got stuck and needed to email my professor. as i couldnt move forward without his response, i had to think of some other way to be productive. i have to read 1984 for class on monday, but i didnt have a copy.

so i went on an adventure to cambridge to go to the harvard book store. i found a used copy of 1984 as well as a new paperback copy of ts eliot's selected poems ($4) and walker percey's lancelot ($5). i couldnt resist. obviously.

after wandering through the bookstore for about an hour i sat outside in the glorious, glorious sun all afternoon. reading 1984. me, the sun, 1984, a cup of good coffee, happy people surrounding me. how could that not be a good day?

i needed today.


also 1984 is so good. if for some reason, like me you have not read it, go read it. now.

"the sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. desire was thoughtcrime."

[also - one year ago today i left berlin. sad]