I am severely in need of an update of some sort, especially as I have about half an hour before my 11-o'clock cultural anthropology class. To conserve space, here is a run down of the last 2 months: 1. college begun; lots of philosophy reading and thinking which takes up time (American philosophy with Emerson, Peirce, and James so far; finishing James today --- Philosophy of Literature, which included reading Hard Times by Charles Dickens reaffirming my fondness for that man's writing (earliest... read more