So, I only got through two items on my summer reading list. FAILURE!

In addition to having the potential to drive me mad by December, this semester is the busiest I've ever attempted. Five courses in addition to singing with the choristers; but honestly it's this studio drawing class which stresses me. At the beginning, it broke my brain in the best possible way and taught me how not to do things the quick and dirty way when sketching--but the workload is actually pretty intense and more draining than I thought. No English courses. None next semester either, if I want to transfer as quickly as possible. I really feel like I'm ready to move on, and I'm nearly there. Just getting anxious about exactly which path to take. Sometimes I feel like since I could potentially do many things, I will end up doing nothing.

At the end of the month DJ & I get to make it over to NC to visit my family. That's something to look forward to.

I've been taking St. John's Wort. I can't tell any difference.

I need more poetry in my life.

Reading

I need to read more. Like, a lot more. So I made a list the other day taken from UNC-W's Creative Writing reading list.

American Prosody - Allen, Gay Wilson
Poetics - Aristotle
Ich und Du (I and Thou) - Buber, Martin
Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton - Coleridge
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy - Dryden, John
Emerson:"The Music of Poetry"
"The Poet"
"Nature"
"The American Scholar"
Poetic Meter and Poetic form - Fussell, Paul
Proofs & Theories - Louise Glück
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry - Gross, Harvey
How to Read a Poem - Hirsch, Edward
Poetry and the Age - Jarrell, Randall
Selected Letters - Keats
Birth of a Tragedy - Nietzsche
Pensees - Pascal
The Situation of Poetry - Pinsky, Robert
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
On Lies, Secrets and Silence - Rich, Adrienne
Letters to a Young Poet - Rilke
Modern Poetics - Scully, James
Apology for Poetry - Sidney, Phillip

I'm going to try to supplement this with books I have to track down outside of the campus library, as well as certain things I know I should have read by now. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, and... a multitude of other things. Actually, I think I finally need to get over my repulsion regarding Austen, the Bronte sisters, et al. I need to get into the habit of reading things I think I hate.

And I guess I should read Milton if I want to read an essay on Milton. Fuck.

Nexus One: sexy, sexy teflon wonder machine

I have red hot, out of control lust for this phone. How long ago was it that I didn't give a shit about mobile devices? Three months?