明天就要上班了,今天把自己锁在家里狂写杂志社的书评,憋了半天挤出一页纸的东西,最后还删掉了大半.家里依然开不了伙也没心自己做饭,于是外卖店的伙计已然混了个脸熟.饭桌上堆满了买来借来和复印来的书,读了个七八分熟也颇有认同感却不明白还能抒发出什么新的见解,恨恨然盯着电脑屏幕,傻想如果在没有电脑的时代是不是脚边的废纸应该堆成小山一样了.
Archive for May, 2007
书评
Monday, May 28th, 2007Fun times
Sunday, May 27th, 2007I haven’t blogged for a few days. I spent the past few days walking around downtown Manhattan (good old memories); sipping coffee in random neighborhood coffee houses grading LR writing competition; watching jazz band playing in Washington Square Park on a weekend afternoon; and sitting by the water as the sun went down and Brooklyn Bridge lit up.
Work begins next Tuesday.
New York
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007So here I am. Tired, sitting in my new apartment. No furniture, but plenty of view.
Beach
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Update
Saturday, May 19th, 2007It’s been a week since my last blog entry. I am alive and well, just not blogging for now. I am working on my book review for the LR, and the book is on a subject that I am, paradoxically, intimately familiar with but very much uninformed in. So it’s taking me a lot of time to get up to speed in the reading.
小南的偶像和怄像
Saturday, May 12th, 2007女孩子成长大概都有个崇拜偶像的过程。近来小南开始有追星的嫌疑,而且迷恋的对象很是另类,不是什么歌星影星,而是附近工地上的挖土机。每天惦记着要去看一眼挖土机,回家以后也念念不忘挖土机,觉得挖土机特别能干,崇拜得不行,外出游玩路经其他建筑工地时看见挖土机也是情绪激动得不住嚷嚷。后来发展到要求家人叫她就叫“挖土机”,家里人也一律改名为挖土机奶奶,挖土机妈妈,等等。最近小南对挖土机的迷恋还延伸到了另一个不可思议的对象上:她开始迷恋上了垃圾车。觉得垃圾车也很能干,开始唠叨垃圾车的好。
女儿轻度追星父母还是支持的。因为没处索取签名也无法靠近合影,所以上周末干脆去店里买了个挖土机的车模,三块钱的东西,小南欢天喜地地拿在手里可以玩大半天。估摸着垃圾车的车模恐怕没有卖的,正寻思是不是上网去打一张垃圾车的照片下来,但前几天打电话回家,萍儿说还真买到一个垃圾车的车模,还附送垃圾模型一袋,可以放在车斗里。实在是有点不可思议,难道也有别的小孩子崇拜垃圾车不成?
除了盲目崇拜一些东西以外,女孩子大概都会毫无道理地怕一些东西,比如毛毛虫什么的。小南也开始有她特别怕的东西,然而她惧怕的对象也十分另类,不是虫子怪物什么的,而是各种各样的球,包括从学校买来的橄榄球模型,玩具店买回来的皮球,等等,只要让她看见了,一律倒退三步然后哇哇大哭,于是不得已只好把各种各样的球都扔到壁橱里关起来,眼不见为净。于是深刻体会到英文习语为什么说怪物都在壁橱里。
End of the Crunch
Friday, May 11th, 2007I stayed up until 3 a.m. this morning to edit an article, and resumed the work when I woke up at 9. I finally turned in my assignment of the day at 4 p.m., and concluded my week of madness.


