I don’t
believe in astrology, but my birthday is in Gemini, and I do find that
everything in my life has its upside and downside, simultaneously. I also have
a hard time choosing among the many things I want to do, on any day.
I would
never have been able to be a real academic, because I would not have been able
to keep my attention on my sliver of a topic for as long as would have been
necessary to write a dissertation, let alone turn that dissertation into a
publishable book, as well as all the papers and talks required to get tenure.
Everything
in my field of interests includes reading, writing, watching movies, going for long
walks, seeing plays, going to museums, listening to music of all kinds (except
polkas and operas), cooking, eating, writing about my reading, knitting,
crocheting, having lunch or dinner with friends, e-mailing my friends, reading
Facebook, commenting on my friends’ FB posts,
reading the stories my friends
post to FB, tweeting my rants about language misuse and grammatical mistakes,
traveling to other countries, traveling to other states, playing the piano, organizing
my books, organizing my files, oh, I’m getting tired just trying to think of
everything I want to do.
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I wasn’t
sure what my E was going to be. Here were some of the possibilities: empty,
erasure, enabled, elevated, elegant, effluvial, effort, early, eucalyptus,
effect, elephant, easy, ephemeral, ergot, evil, ever, eternal, enter, entire,
epic, ears. Maybe I’ll write about each of them at some other time.
