There’s a bunch of stuff I’ve been wanting to post, but let UD for one millisecond in the long life of this blog say a variant of that obnoxious thing that you hear lots of people (at least lots of people in Washington DC) say: I’ve been so busy (read: so cool and in demand) that it’s been hard for me to keep up with the blog. This is a truly certifiably obnoxious sort of thing to say, and UD has heard obnoxious people say something like it all her life and UD never says it because it’s obnoxious but let her FOR ONE MILLISECOND in the long life of this blog say it. She is truly – to quote whoremistress Bella Cohen – all of a mucksweat.
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Let UD say – much less obnoxiously – I hope – that one thing she always wished for — that she have a life with many different sorts of experiences and challenges — has come true. She has not only taught (and written about) literature, here and abroad, to university students. She has led seminars for corporate managers, lectured at public libraries, addressed gatherings on athletics and architecture and interior design, gathered a global online classroom of close to ten thousand students, and been on the receiving end of more media attention that she ever thought possible. Her blog has thousands of dedicated readers, many of whom have written to her (to link her to important articles; to ask her to promote their books and their causes), and some of whom have become friends.
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If she’s now somewhat over-committed, that’s a good thing, it’s a thing she’s worked for, it’s fine.
She will now post all that stuff. Ne quittez pas.
February 10th, 2015 at 5:05PM
You should go with Piaf: “Non, je ne regrette rien”
February 10th, 2015 at 5:08PM
That line always reminds me of one of my favorite exchanges in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? —
[Nick] You’re going to regret this.
[George] Probably. I regret everything.
February 10th, 2015 at 5:43PM
I can relate to George, although perhaps substituting “overexamining” for “regret.”