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[misterplowdavid]

It may sound dumb to many of you, but even now I can't give up the possibility (or what was once a probability) of pursuing academia for a living due to the simple reason that I love books so goddamn much. I'm a weird bird, I know. But fuck it: I love reading books, discussing them, writing about them, even reading criticism that would bore anyone

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[iamthequarry]

you realise that I've been at my job for nearly a year-and-a-half -- I have not received a raise, I do not have benefits, I don't even have stability for the most part.

Remind me to slap you next time I see you. Since it will probably be so far away that I will have forgotten.

As for books, I tried to read Waugh's Scoop, but I just couldn't stay interested in it.
And now, I really want to reread Edmund White's The Beautiful Room is Empty again, to remind me what a beautiful sentence really looks like.
I really need to get turned onto some new authors...any recommendations?

[dactylx2]

oh me! me! i have recommendations! ask me ask me!

[iamthequarry]

ok

*ahem*

"Melanie...might you have any rec-o-mendations on authorship?"

[dactylx2]

perhaps you should look into the following:
.nabokov
.julian barnes
.and always a good choice: gabriel garcia marquez
.something highly recommended, which i'm reading in a few weeks: elizabeth mccracken's 'the giant's house'

but what do i know? *hmpf!*

[superguido7]

Grats, man. If anyone deserves it it's you.

[dactylx2]

david, i'm happy to see you're doing well. you're definitely more than qualified to re-enter academia and i hope it eventually works out, but there's a lot to say for being content and successful in a job where you DO have money and ample opportunity to excel.

is the shax bio you're reading called 'will in the world'? i'm reading that right now.

[misterplowdavid]

Yeah, that's the one. Greenblatt's the authority on the guy, so I started with him.

Thanks for the reassurance, but what's weird about my present situation is that I'm not looking for any. I feel comfortable saying that I'm qualified. What I never expected was to get over that hump of self-doubt (which I've had for many years) and then decide to move in another direction. What I'm doing is in no way permanent, but I don't know where it will lead me. I'm so anxious by my very nature that for once I'm allowing myself to enjoy the moment, even if the moment doesn't look like what I had envisioned for myself long ago.

[elevatorboy13]

i realized last week that the number for you that i have in my phone is one digit shy of a dialable number. e-mail it to me one mo gen russmitchell77@hotmail.com