So I'm almost certain that I've got an apartment in Jersey, about half an hour from Penn Station. It's in the building that my friends Ilana and Joe live, which is great, and it will be a good half-step for Nadja to get used to cities. So, it's sort of great, and a good step towards finding a motherfucking place in the city (which, is far far harder then it was right after September 11th ... go figure).
I'm sending in a check tomorrow and hopefully moving Tuesday or Wednesday. I've been spending most of my time too cracked out and stressed dealing with credit checks and finding money I didn't want to spend for the last week to do much of anything. I've become horribly addicted to 24 and have been downloading it nearly full time. That's a good break from chain-smoking on the phone with the landlord and biteing my nails. I've also been reading my Banville book and trying to get the goddamn Class panel for this year's Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference off the ground. I'm getting really fucking stressed about my talk there this year. I'm not nearly prepared and really don't want to come off as an idiot like I did last year.
It's a strange group of people, not all from academic backgrounds, but all well versed in 'movement talk'. I've got to sort of moderate between two vocabularies (which is a really interesting theoretical break that I hope to write about one day as relates to political writing in general ... I think there's interesting critiques of both vanguardism and anti-vanguardism somewhere in there ... but really I've not time to think about it).
I'll be glad when September's over, that's for bloody sure. If all goes well I'll have a job, a house, and be done with the panel and my talk on play. I'll be much closer to having finished my paper and generally be in a much better place than I am now. That being said, though, I've got until January to revise my paper on Vermont secession for Perspectives on Anarchist Theory and that is perhaps the most stressful thing I can imagine (most of my friends, and most of my role models are on the editorial board, and one person I've rather a large crush on ...).
At any rate, things look up. I hope to have a new tattoo within the week as well. So I'll post pictures or something.
I'm sending in a check tomorrow and hopefully moving Tuesday or Wednesday. I've been spending most of my time too cracked out and stressed dealing with credit checks and finding money I didn't want to spend for the last week to do much of anything. I've become horribly addicted to 24 and have been downloading it nearly full time. That's a good break from chain-smoking on the phone with the landlord and biteing my nails. I've also been reading my Banville book and trying to get the goddamn Class panel for this year's Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference off the ground. I'm getting really fucking stressed about my talk there this year. I'm not nearly prepared and really don't want to come off as an idiot like I did last year.
It's a strange group of people, not all from academic backgrounds, but all well versed in 'movement talk'. I've got to sort of moderate between two vocabularies (which is a really interesting theoretical break that I hope to write about one day as relates to political writing in general ... I think there's interesting critiques of both vanguardism and anti-vanguardism somewhere in there ... but really I've not time to think about it).
I'll be glad when September's over, that's for bloody sure. If all goes well I'll have a job, a house, and be done with the panel and my talk on play. I'll be much closer to having finished my paper and generally be in a much better place than I am now. That being said, though, I've got until January to revise my paper on Vermont secession for Perspectives on Anarchist Theory and that is perhaps the most stressful thing I can imagine (most of my friends, and most of my role models are on the editorial board, and one person I've rather a large crush on ...).
At any rate, things look up. I hope to have a new tattoo within the week as well. So I'll post pictures or something.