i’ve been writing less this week because i’ve been consuming words at a mad pace instead of pouring them out onto this page — that is, i’m trying to fly through the home stretch of the mighty infinite jest, and doing a good job considering the time i have to read while still maintaining normal social relations. on page 827 right now (out of 981 not including endnotes). my goal is to finish by saturday afternoon, which will be the exact six-week point from starting. an approximately 1100 page book in six weeks? calculator tells me that’s about 183 pages a week, which is not far off from one normal book a week, which means i’m doing just fine. especially considering the whole finals/moving/visiting father things that kept me from reading much during certain spots in there . . . i fucking rule.

since i’ve written little lately, i’ll continue without feeling longwinded.

we have this joke amongst a few of us that i think you will find fun to try out with your own circle of friends, perhaps, so i will share it. i have this friend, who is a girl, and who happens to be my girlfriend, whose last name starts with your typical irish prefix. she also happens to fall asleep and/or intentionally take naps pretty much all the time, so when she did this, i would call her “nappy mcnap” instead of her real name, because i’m so unbearably clever. this has since developed, over time and creative twisting, into a full-on compulsive habit of describing many of my friends. for example, when someone is being lazy, they are called “lazy mclazy”, and so on. eventually, this got boring, and so it’s gone farther to where the first and last words are not the same, making it even more fun and verbally showy. an example: my roommate left to go running, and i said, “later, joggy mcfitness!” a tired girlfriend can now be called “sleepy mcyawn”. see how much fun this gets to be? well i hope so, because i can’t stop. i’m a regular punny mcGENIUS.

but try it out and tell me it’s not funny. i dare you.

umm, song of the week later, after i read more.

[now hearing this: houston: “water” from head like a road map. this cd is seriously good.]