Back in a Comfortable Routine

Today was my first day back at work after my crazy holiday weekend, and tonight I started my second-to-last class in my master's program. This quarter I'm taking "Teaching Literature" which focuses on teaching at both the secondary and post-secondary level.

Along with the standard academic text I have to read, I also get to read the following:

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafizi
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
City on the Make by Nelson Algren
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Now not only do I get to read fun books for work, I also get to read them for school!

P and I e-mailed back and forth all day. We managed to have an in-depth discussion about Jack Abramoff's plea bargain. It is so refreshing to meet a guy who can CONVERSE!

I have dinner with T tomorrow night, but I kind of don't want to go. I already accepted, though, and it would be nice to talk to him when I'm not moderately intoxicated. He's definitely very cute, and I'm really attracted to him in a physical sense, but (based on my fuzzy recollections from Friday night) I don't think he'll satisfy my intellectual side. He's obviously intelligent (he has a J.D. MBA and is a partner in his firm), but we don't seem to have too much to talk about.

Oh well, I'll just have to see how it goes!