Now since "we" being so candid here

even though it's not realistic I hope I get a second chance someday.

I guess letting out yesterday was a good thing. I didn't have an urge to to do it today. I went to work at my school then ended up having lunch with Koku who is still getting used to NY. Oh she notices all the difference in NYC then all the other places she has lived or been to. And seems fascinated by Brooklyn, where she is living.

We ate at Brooklyn Moon (their $5.00 Anti-Bush menu hit the spot but wasn't filling) then she went to pick up a boatload of ramen noodles, which a friend had gotten supper cheap. And she was surprised that there was a Target downtown.

Wednesday I have my first class of the semester: Urban Literature
described as: For most New Yorkers, and for countless others as well, September 11, 2001 was a transforming experience which drastically altered our views of our city, our world and our place in it. Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is inspired by that day and is the starting point of our course. We will explore the role of New York and other cities as hubs of culture and sensibility. We will consider the ways that the city serves as projection of a historical moment's aspirations, fears and values. Our readings will range from the early modern period to our own. Some of our texts will be excerpts from longer works (such Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Charles Dickens' Dickens' Hard Times, Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and Alfred Doblin's Alexanderplatz ) while Franz Kafka's The Castle, Edith Wharton's House of Mirth and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain will be read in their entirety.

Students will write three short papers(about 750 words each) and one long paper (of about 1500 words). They can expect to view a film in class and may also be assigned a field trip to an exhibit at a major city resource. A final examination completes the course.

I hope I make it through this semester with all the changes that may be going down for me