Finally...

I am kicking myself for leaving this blog silent for two weeks now... Finals Week and the mess of sorting out my majors has me more than bogged down with work, but I promise to resume writing with a renewed fervor as soon as the week is up.

I know life goes on outside of college; for starters, the governor of Ilinois is embroiled in an embarassing corruption scandal, and the Tribune Co. has filed for bankruptcy! It's almost a relief for me to burry myself in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling , fretting over how Abraham could be the father of faith and at the same time intend to murder Isaac, rather than face a world that seems to be breaking down around me.

My current preoccupations are "of peculiarly local concern" as Chief Justice Harlan Stone might say. I'm studying up for a Legal Reasoning final exam on constitutional law, and worrying that I might be turning into a mini Antonin Scalia (talk about fear and trembling). I just finished a 10-pager about radical feminism and violent pornography. I'm dropping one of my majors, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts. Oh, and I made a kick-ass dinner tonight with lentils, couscous and sweet potato soup.

I leave for San Diego on Saturday morning, and I will be spending the weekend of the 18th in Los Angeles with the boyfriend. I miss my friends, and I'm dying to see my little brother, who's been sick for about a month now. It's been raining all day, and my sneakers are soaked because I went running this morning. Outdoors. I hate to say it, but these things are on my mind a lot more than the thought of the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune going up in a pixelated cloud of smoke.

I don't want to make any promises, but hopefully I will be able to share more of my thoughts on some of these issues soon.