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Well, I had extra-ordinarily good news today! It turns out that Galen might just be able to hire me as his research assistant for the summer in preparation for his sabbatical! This would mean searching for grants, reading secondary literature on Merleau-Ponty, helping to revise a doctoral dissertation, preparing for the 2005 Merleau-Ponty Circle conference, among other things... I'm pumped! If this goes through (funding is likely, but not assured), this could be an incredible summer.
In other news, mother's day went splendidly. My mother didn't expect my homecoming in the least, so she almost dropped dead when I walked in the door. It was great! (not that she almost died, but that she was so happy *wink*) we spent the day chatting and catching up.
Other than that, I've been preparing for my first comprehensive exam on the 28th. It's on Modern Philosophy, so I'm not really that afraid. I have, however, been re-reading my Leibniz (Discourse on Metaphysics *check*, Monadology *check*, and Theodicy *check*) and Descartes (Discourse on Method *check*, and the Meditations *in progress*) this passed weekend. Not very glamorous, but I want to rock this exam.
Lastly, I read another Saramago book and purchased a third. I finished Blindness this morning, and it was also very good. I liked The Cave better, but that was only because of content, not because of writing. Blindness was rather gruesome at times and had some really disturbing segments. It is about a sudden and unavoidable pandemic of blindness that leaves one seeing nothing but white light before the eyes. One of my favorite lines is when a character responds to a request for his name by saying "I am a voice, nothing else matters."
In other news, mother's day went splendidly. My mother didn't expect my homecoming in the least, so she almost dropped dead when I walked in the door. It was great! (not that she almost died, but that she was so happy *wink*) we spent the day chatting and catching up.
Other than that, I've been preparing for my first comprehensive exam on the 28th. It's on Modern Philosophy, so I'm not really that afraid. I have, however, been re-reading my Leibniz (Discourse on Metaphysics *check*, Monadology *check*, and Theodicy *check*) and Descartes (Discourse on Method *check*, and the Meditations *in progress*) this passed weekend. Not very glamorous, but I want to rock this exam.
Lastly, I read another Saramago book and purchased a third. I finished Blindness this morning, and it was also very good. I liked The Cave better, but that was only because of content, not because of writing. Blindness was rather gruesome at times and had some really disturbing segments. It is about a sudden and unavoidable pandemic of blindness that leaves one seeing nothing but white light before the eyes. One of my favorite lines is when a character responds to a request for his name by saying "I am a voice, nothing else matters."