Last night a wonderful woman let me have her old research on Japan and Japanese postmodernism. It's a huge pile of things I went through last night and sorted into 'must read now' and 'must read later because there's not enough time in the world to read now' and 'really interesting'. She was so sweet - she even let me read some of her undergrad papers that she found in a file, and they were so much better than mine. And now I've got bibliographies and places to hunt for resources and papers galore sitting in my office just waiting for me to pounce!
I'm also bouncing off the walls because
I just realized that although I didn't get to leave town, we've had people visiting *us* this summer. We are a vacation destination! (ok, not really, but ... I'm going with it for right now).
Plans today:
+ cleaning the house so that elizabuffy is not scared by our lackadaisical housekeeping
+ visiting the store so that we have foodstuffs (we seem to run out of food at regular intervals? what's up with that?)
+ PICKING EB UP FROM THE AIRPORT! Wheee!