diversions

i knew something had changed when i found myself sitting in my carrel for six hours yesterday even as i was turning blue from a hideous hangover. the words on the monitor occasionally flopped about, but still i wrote a couple pages before heading home and falling into a sack of misery.

it's too bad that i can't seem to find a place to work at my own house, but the distractions are everywhere and if i'm not careful, i end up making something like this (see below) instead of typing sentences like this ("These intimate texts come to mediate – and enable – the students’ participation in the larger project of community building"). i need to type better sentences than that one, but you get the idea. the carrel is better than my office at school where there is always the temptation to go and chat with someone in the hall instead of typing those sentences. so it looks like it's seclusion for this one.