Comps Countdown: 15 More days

So I had a productive little Sunday. Note to self: Wine before you're ready to go to bed is not a good idea.
Wine when you're beat and you want to attempt to do more work? Good idea.

I read Nikolas Rose's Powers of Freedom (1999) and I can't believe I've never read it or nobody has recommended it to me before. This is what I've really hated throughout my time in grad school (all of it)- all of the best things I've pretty much had to discover by myself. I shouldn't say all, but at least 50% of the books and articles I have found of incredible value I searched by accident or I had to go through a lot of background searching before I discovered it by myself. I just feel that to be a little lop-sided. One would think that the readings I find intriguing would be the ones introduced to me by my professors or within my classes. I think the only exception was Mohanram's Black Body and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (both of which are so SO good and must-reads).
And the readings that have introduced to me- it might not be that they are bad- but it might be the wrong time in my life to be reading them such that I find nothing interesting or novel about them.
But you know those books that you can't put down and you've read over and over again and each time you read a passage you get one more layer that you didn't know existed prior? Yeah, I was hoping for that. Maybe that's why I like Foucault so much.

Anyhow, I feel like I got a lot out of Rose's book and I'm just thinking about all the ways in which I can mobilize it. Not that it was incredibly new stuff (it WAS written over a decade ago) but it was [surprisingly] just so clear/ easy to read and usable- translatable into everyday life.

I'm feeling good about this.

Tomorrow's goal-
1) Write 4000 words on Lefebvre, Harvey and Castells.
2) Write 2 questions for me to answer for my second list.
3) Prepare food for the rest of the week and write recipes down for future ease of grocery shopping.

3.5) Buy decaf. (I've found that I no longer NEED caffeine in coffee but I certainly need the comfort of the delicious taste. It's also probably not so good of an idea to continue sipping it throughout the day if I've gotten rid of my caffeine addiction...).