back on boogie street

that's leonard cohen. he's drinking tequila with cranberry juice, i believe.

the temptation now is to put a chunk of money from each paycheck from now until april away in an envelope and simply take a month off. read a lot. ride my bicycle across town. cook dinner on our barbeque, soon to be retrieved from the ashes of fort awesome. spend time finding a better job.

today:
bruce cockburn, joy will find a way (1975)
alpha, the impossible thrill (2001)
kate bush, aerial (2005)
lots and lots of 70's hits, incl. james taylor
richard and linda thompson, pour down like silver (1975)
scott walker, scott 4 (1969)
a girl called eddy, s/t (2004)

i'll be up a little while longer, but not to waste time. i am reading the soviet experiment: russia, the u.s.s.r., and the successor states for class. i have to get to pg 213 by feb. 9 and am now at pg 67. i'll go to bed when i start nodding off.

articles that i have read so far this semester:
boris i. kolonitskii, antibourgeois propaganda and anti-'burzhui' consciousness in 1917 (1994)
peter holquist, information is the alpha and omega of our work: bolshevik surveillance in its pan-european context (1997)
terry martin, an affirmative action empire: the emergence of the soviet nationalities policy (2003)

for several years, i've saved every article that i've had to read for class. i need to file them, because they are now piled at the bottom of my bookshelf.

information is the alpha and omega of our work. that line has been in my head for about a week now.