September 2008
5 posts
people, books, and others
I have just finished reading The Book of Other People, which is a collection of short stories written by twenty-three fresh authors and edited by Zadie Smith. This made for entertaining and thought-provoking reading as I made my morning commute, and I can think of nothing more different than Tolstoy’s War and Peace, which tired me. My only complaint with the collection concerns the redundancy of...
elle woods meets aristotle
I work at a law firm, and some might believe that I’m working there as a means by which to bolster future graduate school applications. That is not true; I am working there because I need to eat. Granted, it’s not the most impressive job, and I don’t do the most intellectual tasks while I’m at work, I think there is some practicality to working after graduation. After all, not everyone has...
invisible man
Two very important things have happened since I last posted: I quit reading War and Peace and became gainfully employed. I can’t help but wonder if those two events are inherently related. People talk about some mythical place after college called the real world, and apparently, this real world is more difficult than the imaginary world known as college. So I’ve transitioned from both imaginary...