rereading Virginia Woolf, I'm always rereading Woolf, making my students do this, you'd think I was giving them an anal probe for all the fuss they make, it's just a friggin pot roast jezus h christ...wanting to make beouf en daube as an intellectual enterprise is embematic of my career issues (which I am suffering from lately to a truly crabby-fying degree), my idea of what thinking is

“I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it’s ripe; it will be exquisite by September.” —Virginia Woolf