gimme an intro

ok. hi.

so i thought i was going to come up something super clever and literary for the title to this blog, but it's 3:34 a.m. and this is how i tend to do things--very impulsively. yet i have been wanting to do this kind of public blog for a while...and anyway, i think this title captures my intent here pretty well.

i'm gonna procrastinate here by posting whatever i'm really reading, listening to, watching when i'm not doing my schoolwork. this will include prose fiction, scholarly work i find on my own, youtube videos, links to all sorts of stuff. and POETRY. yes. i want to feature poetry on here, since i (think) i read quite a bit of poetry. it'll mostly be other people's work that i admire, am fascinated by, am inspired by...i'll see how comfortable i get with sharing my own pieces. so yes, poetry...and i especially welcome, encourage creative responses to what i post. gimme more poetry, music, art.

i suppose i could say that i want to do this because i don't want my intellectual and artistic life to be merely dictated to me by the institutions of so-called higher ed. though maybe that's just a fancy way of saying that i procrastinate. a lot. on the other hand, i also want to engage with my studies in a way that takes me in some different, non-strictly-academic directions. because i think it's a fairly common phenomenon that school, that sense of obligation (or boring professors, poorly organized courses or overly organized courses) often render subjects that would be fun absolutely uninspiring. i want inspiration.

so fuck hw gimme poetry.