oct 24

(long account of going to bars and parties last sunday, wednesday and last night, friday which I'm not going to include because its about specific people) So the whole going to bars in London thing is coming apace, thats for sure, and I'd love more nights like last night, its an idea of london I like a lot and hadn't envisioned much before I came. But I guess thats a way in which London is with NYC Berlin and LA an amazing climate for parties, because the realm of terrain for it is huge while still manageable.
As for my research I changed my catastrophe paper topic from movies about AIDS to being about thatcher's london, it seems more manageable and anyway I have more resources at my disposal. I have a bunch of books out, some in my bookbag at Tom's place. I think I'm definitely going to start writing today and then add information from research tomorrow and Monday so that by next class I have a definite start, maybe the framework and structure, 5-10 pages written I hope? I'm reading flaubert and stendhal just kinda because, but they're not blowing my mind. I really want to read Benjamin and Deleuze and these sorts of guys. Somehow being in this particular intellectual mindstate that the consortium has put me in makes me want to just do that stuff and focus in on that theory stuff to the exclusion of almost everything else, if just because I feel like now I am making connections with it and deciphering it, and thats so exciting because I've often just felt baffled by it. Today I think I'm going to read Stendhal and relax and get an early night, obviously I didnt sleep enough because I went to bed at 5. A perfect day to read novels in my house actually. Interested in Proust, and really really excited about this french class! Met some american/lebanese who grew up in Paris, studies at the AA.