I'm about halfway through "Empire Falls" and it is a really good and funny book with lots of irony. It's the last book in Contemporary literature before the holiday - niiice indeed! I have one more book to go in Southern literature as well. Percival Everett's "Erasure" which I've been told is also supposed to be a funny book. It's the final book in Southern lit. Not just before the holiday but overall.
My teacher has started calling me Mr. Michael and is starting conversations with me during the breaks in class. I don't mind that at all, but I fear he's going to ask me to do a presentation about "Erasure". I'm not scared of doing it, I just don't feel like it. Lazy, lazy I guess.
I got the Lion King 2 disc DVD today. It's been a while since I watched the movie so I look forward to it. I've also been watching a bit of wrestling this week. Besides the usual WWE TV I've been watching some Ring of Honor. The promotion continue to put on super shows and is my pick for federation of the year.
I've also realized that I cannot live without my car. The one I have at the moment dies in January and I have to get another car! I don't know how but I'm not going on a bike...no way in hell! But what the f**k - I'll deal with that problem in January. I'm going to cry about it to my grandmother and my mom. I won't have any luck going to my dad with the problem. He'll just tell me I'm lazy and that some exercise would do me some good. I guess that's true but no need to tell him that.
I got a call from my grandmother today (not the one involved in the "I-need-a-new-car"-plan). We talked a bit about how early the sun goes down these days and other exciting issues all covered in the major newspapers. But it actually struck me today - 2004 is right around the corner. Fall and winter is upon us. Pretty soon I'll turn 22, my exams will be over and 2004 is knocking on my door (I'll be too lazy to answer the door but that's another issue). I'm not really depressed about time disappearing before me. It just gets me thinking you know.
Tomorrow is the annual "Årsfest" and as I wrote in another post I'm not going. Usually, classes are cancelled that day because of the preparations. In fact, that was the case with my classes tomorrow in Southern lit. But no no no no! Our teacher has found a room for us on the 1st floor of the University for classes af 10 am (2 hours earlier than our normal Friday classes). We have to discuss the most important story in Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses" so I have to show up and actually I don't mind. My only problem is that I have no idea where classes are held...I know the room number but I have no idea where it is. Anyway, wish me luck! :-)

"Go Down, Moses" turned out to be a mixed bag of surprises. It's basically a collection of stories and some of them are pretty decent while others are terrible. The longest, and probably most important, story called "The Bear" is so weird I had to give up reading it. My teacher told us in class that we would most likely have problems understanding that part so I hope he'll explain it Tuesday in class.
So I started reading the next book in my contemporary American literature class, namely "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo. I've never heard of him or the book but it won the 2002 Pulitzer Price. I've read the first 84 pages and it's already one of the funniest books I've ever read. I actually laughed out loud many times while reading the first chapters. It's very well written and as I said also very funny. If the remaining 400 pages are as good as the first 80, this will be a joyride from start to finish.
Allow me to quote from "Empire falls". Here, one of the main characters, Miles, is talking to a priest, Father Mark.
"Ever since Miles had confessed his boyhood confusion about the words 'rectory' and 'rectum', Father Mark (...) had preferred this nomenclature, even though it sometimes slipped out when it shouldn't. Such as earlier that summer when at the end of Mass he invited the parishioners to join him and Father Tom for lemonade on the lawn behind the Rectum".