productive day at work, though it wasn't enough to make me feel good about it. i've been feeling really insular, and i know that's not good for me, personally or professionally. i have to find a way to get out of my own head, find some energy, radiate it outward. some days, that's really hard ( Read more... )

a friend wanted me to read madame bovary again, so that she could share her thoughts with me on the subject. i thought i'd read it, but in doing so (what i thought was) again, realized that i'd probably only seen the movie. in spite of it seeming somewhat "romantic," that is one seriously depressing read! even more depressing is the fact that in ( Read more... )