Happy Hanukkah.

Star of Wonder, by Sufjan Stevens.

I call you from the comet’s cradle/
I found you trembling by yourself.
When the night falls lightly on your right-wing shoulder,
wonderful know-it-all, slightly, where the night gets colder.
Oh, conscience, Where will you carry me?

As you’ve probably gathered from my email, I still haven’t finished the book. Although I think I’ve over halfway through if everything I read from the beginning and near the end is counted. At any rate, I’m disappointed that this is the one book I’ve evidently dropped the ball with, because I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read and think that was a class discussion I would’ve been quite involved in.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
The Ziggurat of Ur.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Are you traveling for the holidays this year? And if so, where are you going? Who will you be seeing?

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So here, in full, is the email I received yesterday from the Democratic Party.

Dear Connor,
Majority Parties kickoff

If there’s one thing I want every Democrat to remember as we head into the New Year and into a fast-approaching presidential election, it is this: we are the majority.

It’s an interesting coincidence this week that I wrote you some comments on postmodernism, in which the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle prominently features, and then we read (what most would consider an indisputably postmodern work) Reluctant Gravities, which involves the same phenomena.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
– Isaac Asimov

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is outside the nearest window?

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– TODAY – is the Misa de Aguinaldo.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Lots of celebrities.

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
globeandmail.com: Rare dolphin extinct, researcher says.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Who have you not envied this week?

So Phase 1 of Connor’s MFA program has just been concluded. It consisted of the first three of my four semesters. During this time I took 4 credits each semester from a Writing Workshop and a Literature Seminar.

The first semester, I took Helen Schulman’s workshop, and Jeffery Renard Allen’s literature seminar, Shadow Narration.

Right here.

Bear in mind that this is raw, unfiltered data. The effect of the computer, for example, is huge, and who knew about bottled water in 1980?

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– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Sitting Bull and Freeman Dyson.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Paraguay.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
But how do you really feel about Disco?

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