no cartoons, just the news

It's nine O'clock on a saturday....

and I believe the Summer is beginning to merge with the Fall, although I have a feeling this season will last about as long as Spring did, which was about two weeks and then it shot to 100 F.
I'd like to head over to IBC and see what could do for whoever finds themself in North Texas instead of New Orleans, but I've gotta work at One. Really, there's little for me to say since no one really reads this and all I'm doing is writing for my own benefit.
What a selfish jerk.

Here's a brief statement of the current:
Still in the beginning of the new semester, currently reading Richard Rorty, two books on Mozart, and the Epic of Gilgamesh. FinAid arrives next week sometime, and I'm w..a...i..t...i..n..g.. to hear if I won the Holocaust Studeis Scholarship. My research this semester will most likely focus on the Haskalh--the Jewish Enlightenment in the 18th Century, and perhaps applying some literary criticism to a film about the Holocaust. On the agenda for reading this semester (for my classes): Milton, Homer, Dante, Virgil.

time for gina to get up
bw

friday night

I'm in the process of re-defining my understanding of night-time. I've been obsessed with packing hundreds of tasks into the short period between seven and midnight, so that each night I'm dissatisfied with my progress and end up more stressed out than I need to be.

So now I'm teaching myself that night is for relaxing, for refreshing and rebuilding.
It's time to stop trying to capitalize on the evening and spend that time with my wife, my dog, my Lord, and myself. And perhaps the Epic of Gilgamesh and Mozart.

Gnight

bw

Center for Contemporary German Literature, Washington University

Could I teach this class?

GER 528
This seminar will examine texts by German-speaking Jewish writers of the 20th century, concentrating in particular on Jewish experience in Germany and Austria and on the myriad constructions of German-Jewish identity in literature both before and after the Holocaust. We will investigate the cultural discourses that surround the much-debated notion of a "German-Jewish symbiosis" and its redefinition after the Holocaust, as well as a variety of literary texts by authors such as Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Paul Celan, Jurek Becker, Jean Améry, Edgar Hilsenrath, Robert Schindel, Maxim Biller, Ruth Klüger, Katja Behrens and Barbara Honigmann. Our reading of each writer's work will examine how the text negotiates complex questions of German/Austrian-Jewish idendity, alterity, assimilation and acculturation. We will also focus on issues such as the Jewish contribution to the German cultural canon, German anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hatred, the love-hate relationship with Ostjuden and Yiddish heritage, German-Jewish identity and literary production after the Holocaust and the concept of a "negative German-Jewish symbiosis." Readings in German. Credit 3 units.