The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real for it is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

suffering

I told you blogging was going to suffer after the holidays. Today is the last of the catch up phase and then I get to spend the afternoon and evening working on teaching materials. Nothing clears away the neuroses like a deadline. I freaked out all I can, now it's crunch time. Gotta make it up today, it's due tomorrow.

It's a lot like grad school. With the possible exception that at the University of Arkansas Drama Dept the mantra was: "Why am I just hearing about this now?"

None of that so far.

But last night I was thinking about something:

Has no one made this connection so far, and if not why: