Miscellany #1: I Find Myself in the Netherlands
I'm too tired to explain why I'm too tired to explain. In a nutshell, I'm supposedly in my first semester of a PhD in creative writing at the University of South Dakota, something which I'm paying for by teaching two courses of English 101; but my friend Rachael Schiel, who played an instrumental role in helping me find my way to the PhD (played the role just like a fiddle, she did), was presenting at this hoity-toity David Foster Wallace Conference in the Netherlands, and despite the love many have shown me in SD I was withering with a need to see old friends or family, and some of Wallace's themes connect to my work, and my cousin Aimee is a flight attendant and gave me some flight benefits (may she be crowned with light), and the conference was even on Rachael's birthday, so I worked like crazy to carve out a week so I could come. My biggest class was also canceled for the week, so that really helped too. Interestingly, that made it feel meant to be, but the