Weekends

Labor Day Weekend, and it's rained the whole time. It's not raining at the moment, but it's still overcast and threatening. The upside to this is that it's cooled off substantially in the past few days. As a result, I now have my windows open and my AC off for the first time in weeks.

I'm in the midst of a cleaning spree, it's the best I can do to procrastinate from all the reading I have hanging over my head at the moment. For those of you who notice these things, I've had the same book on my "Current Reading" shelf for some time. That's not a good thing.

It's a book for the Grad Level Intro to American Studies here. I have 335pgs of it to read, and it's going a lot slower than I'd like. The book is interesting, it's a collection of articles from the first 50 years of American Quarterly, which is the journal of the American Studies Association. I'm really taken by how the field has evolved over the years. If anything, it's made me realize how much I really do like the field I'm in. That's a good thing. If only it wasn't keeping me from preparing for 110.

Nena was out here this weekend. It is more than likely her last trip down here for the forseeable future. She has a life up north, and I have one down here. And while it would be nice for one of us to travel every weekend, it's just not feasible, or realistic.

Sunday, we went to Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, or is it Lenexa, or Olathe, KS. I can't really tell. Johnson County just melts into one large Commerce-O-Plex to me. Much the same way home does, actually. The difference is that I grew up in the Greater Woodfield Commerce-O-Plex, so I know where the civic boundaries are out there. Not so much with the Johnson County Commerce-O-Plex.

The mall trip was actually rather productive. I've been needing to diversify my wardrobe away from my Tshirt collection. This trip went a pretty decent way towards doing that. You've got to love the Labor Day Sales, eh?

As for today, more reading. I really need to put away this 801 reading so I can write the paper and move on to 110. OK, I'm going to go do that right. . .later.