Teaching Day

Cool and gray, outside the sleeves are long and some are donning light jackets. We're screening and discussing Cronenberg's film "A History of Violence" today, a post-9/11 allegory with new resonances (for me at any rate) post-Ferguson. Usually the discussion is pretty lively and I'm looking forward to it. Teaching is feeling a bit less like an ordeal, whatever its intensity this summer, which makes for a nice change. Perhaps it all comes down to the brutal basic fact of the matter that I've gotten seven or more hours of sleep every night in a row for a whole week -- a feat I've managed only a couple of times this last few years since that damn health-scare hospitalization and then the, er, ongoing grotesque Trump episode we're living through.