Shakin' it.

As promised, I've been making the most of my cushy new schedule this teaching block and having some fun this weekend. I reached a milestone this week by doing what I always made fun of the business school kids and Greeks for doing at KU: I began the weekend on a Thursday. Shock horror. We went to a very cool indie-electro night at this club called Thekla, which is actually a ship in the floating harbour. On Friday we switched it up and went to Brazilian Beatz, a monthly event featuring a capoeira troupe, carnaval dancers, and reggae music upstairs.


Brazilian Beatz night


Girlies at Thekla

Just to keep up appearances, I guess I should write a little about non-bar-related activities which, believe it or not, are still occupying most of my time. I started the unit I've really been looking forward to, "Classics, Myth and Modernism," this week. The professor is one of the most genuinely intimidating people I've run into in a while, but she's not actually hostile (although not one of those just-a-teddy-bear-underneath types, either). That's OK -- it's always a good thing to be kept on your toes. I've been revisiting lots of the modernists, with a heavier dose of theory this time, and reading lots about myth and psychoanalysis. I'm currently failing to be convinced by Joseph Campbell's argument that all religions and mythologies are oh, all just the same thing, really, but at the same time enjoying reading lots of good stories about gods eating people, etc., in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. And, in a burst of naive optimism, I've re-begun Ulysses, which (let's be honest) will probably be flung at the wall sometime in the next 12 to 24 hours and set aside for another 2-year cooling-off period.

I don't have too much else to report on at the moment, but here are a few pics of some recent fun times. Happy weekend to all!