2003-07-07    |    4:25 p.m.

quick note before leaving work w/ busfare jingling in pocket:

i knew there was a reason why i've been so completely taken with columbia, to the exclusion of any and all other universities worldwide. i was just checking out their english department course list, and who should i find teaching intro. to poetry writing but saskia hamilton?

witness:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb

sigh. kenyon must have been kind of a one-year fluke for her, or maybe a whim; the College on the Hill after all, the birth of the new criticism, john crowe ransom and robert lowell and all the dreamy, poetic academe-fancies one can stomach in the comfort of her nyc loft.

or whatever, what do I know.

stop, new york, stop doing this to me, i can't right now, i can't.