Recent Obsessions

I just found out that I could fit an Archaeology major into my last 2.5 years of school.  Since I currently have no idea in what I want to major, it may be a possibility.  I've been enjoying very much my class on Mesopotamian divination, and my current research paper on Namburbi rituals has me very excited.  On the other hand, I also rediscovered symbolist poetry, so here's another plan:
 - Keep studying Italian since I already am.  Focus on 19th Century literature
 - Take Romanian in Grad school, because they don't have it here, it's a Romance language, and, most importantly, contains a gold mine of symbolist poetry unexplored by American scholars
 - Be inspired
So yeah, it could work.

Also, I've gotten back into art, which I forgot about.  It surprises me how good a guy like Edouard Vuillard is, despite being not particularly famous.

He's remarkably good with patterns, and is dazzling when he blends them together, as he sometimes does with clothing and wallpaper.  At other times, however, it seems like he just didn't finish the painting, and it could have been magnificent, which is somewhat disappointing to me, because he seems to have tremendous vision, which is the hardest part.

Track of the day: "Late Century Dream" - Superchunk.  The bits and pieces I've heard from Here's to Shutting Up have a very airy and synthetic quality to them that is miles away from No Pocky for Kitty and even goes beyond the light little motifs in the beginning of songs from Come Pick Me Up.  I'll certainly need to get a copy eventually.  Too often, music with a soft sound like that is not nearly as well written (at least to my tastes) as Superchunk/McCaughan stuff always is.