its go time

i'm leaving DC July 7. I'm flying to Kansas City to visit with fam, friends, and my favorite little thrift store on the plains that never fails to yield a girly dress or two. Then I'm driving from KC to Boulder, then Salt Lake, then Tahoe, then SF. that's the plan.

oh but first i need to sell all my shit on craigslist, and plan a swap to get rid of all my clothes, and send my books to Powell's to sell, and find a box to pack my bike in, and pack up all my remaining crap and figure out the most economical way to ship it 3000 miles across the country, and cancel my gym membership, and switch the gas bill out of my name, and hang out with all my friends before i go, and see any last DC cultural markers I never got around to seeing in the last 4 years, and make sure my new student loans are on their way into my Berkeley account, and gaglak;dlgkha;lkdg.

needless to say i didn't do any of that boring shit today. duh, i leisurely drank some coffee, watched a Top Chef marathon, and started to read INFINITE JEST. AGAIN. finding inspiration in this effort, i've decided to get back in that hard, junk-chafing saddle again and just finish it.

some history: i bought the book at Politics and Prose on my birthday in January 2007 but felt too intimidated to even pick it up until early 2008. then i took 6 months to get through the first 200 pages and another 3 months for the next 100 and then infinitely frustrated, i threw it at the wall where it left a large dent.

but this time my confidence is up and I'm ready to try again. only thing is, I start grad school (lo, not even grad school, but pre-grad school dork camp, like wtf) on August 10th, so I have only 8 weeks in which to slog through 981 pages of incomprehensible mind-fuckery plus 96 pages of endnotes, most of which are as mesmerizing as the catalogue of ships in the Iliad. but no matter, its on. finite jest it will be this time. you hear that, DFW? finite.