The Fortnightly Review

The fortnightly review: 

• Cold acquired, cold not yet divested.  
• PowerPoint presentation created.  
• 30 pin to VGA connector acquired, after Apple Store mishap. 
• Conference paper presented.  
• Conference PowerPoint created (taking too much time) and presented on iPad with no problems. (taking up 1:15 more than it should have).
• Reenrollment application completed.  Fingers crossed.  
• Blue Bottle Coffee drunk.
• Books acquired and read: 
• Strangers on a Train: terrifying and engrossing, made me miss my tube stop. Twice. Gave me indigestion.
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore: lovely. Reminded me not a little bit of Microserfs, another favorite. 
• The Empress of the World: good book for teens, less good for adults. A solid 'meh.'
• Books acquired and not read: 
• An Instance of the Fingerpost
• The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
• Put out more Flags
• Books from conference book displays salivated over / put into my “I should have read this yesterday list:
•  far too many
• Dissertation research read: 
• pamphlets upon pamphlets, crappily written letters upon crappily written letters, articles upon articles.  
•  Dissertation chapter: 
• 14,000+ words. Still not done. My footnote word count make it a suitable length for a conference paper.  It might be good performance art: Stand in a hotel lobby in an ill fitting suit, reading in a monotone “ibid., p. 34.  Ibid., p. 347…, the work on this subject is voluminous, but for some examples, see…”