Since it's been nearly a year since I last glanced at this blog, this post is likely to be very stream of consciousness. Fair warning.
Happily, in the midst of the chaos which rules my life, I've managed to squeeze in a few books this year. I've become rather enamored with Kierkegaard and Goethe. Somewhere along the line I definitely picked up an existentialist streak. Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther I found particularly poetic, and much to my dismay, I found myself identifying with the anguished romanticism of Werther! I usually like to think of myself as more down to earth than that, but I suppose romanticism is one of the fatal flaws of the academic, and actually, I think I'm ok with that. Having experienced rather a lot of bitter cynicism in the past couple months regarding two of the organizations on campus, both of which I'm attached to, I've decided that sometimes naive idealism is precisely what is needed. Mind you, I think it's important to get out of the clouds before suicide begins to sound even faintly appealing, but you get the drift.
At any rate, I had intended this to be more long-winded, but Morpheus beckons.
Good grief, that statement sounded pompous. Night, all.