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+title: 'The Descent'
+date: '2008-02-26T20:19:29-05:00'
+permalink: /the-descent/
+tags:
+    - 'general whining'
+    - television
+    - work
+---
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+I’ve been writing up a storm in whatever stolen moments I can get, and working like a fiend at every other hour of the day, with the exceptions of the ones where I sleep (not enough, and not terribly well) and the ones where I watch season 5 of [The Wire](http://www.hbo.com/thewire), which has completely and totally broken my heart this season by being so devastatingly good that I cannot bear the knowledge that I’ve only got one more new episode to watch *ever*, and [In Treatment](http://www.hbo.com/intreatment), which I began watching out of mild formal curiosity (how long can a narrative series that’s on five nights a week hold up?) but have gotten quite caught up in.
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+Aside from those bits of narrative pleasure, it’s sheer madness: preparing for class, producing endless amounts of administrative paperwork, responding to ridiculous numbers of email messages. And, not least, event planning.
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+On the one hand, I hate event planning; I don’t like the kind of organization that it requires of me, I don’t like being responsible for a bunch of details that I honestly don’t care about, and I really, really hate having to wrangle people who temperamentally resist wrangling.
+
+On the other hand, this week’s events — Thursday, the English department’s big annual lecture; Friday, a gala celebration for the Media Studies program, its alumni, and its friends; Saturday, a day-long [symposium](http://www.pitzer.edu/ims/news/brian-stonehill.asp) thinking about the shifts and transitions in media production and consumption being produced by the digital — promise to be amazing.
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+I intend to sleep all day on Sunday, if I can possibly get away with it. I’ll hope to have something new to say thereafter.
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