surprises...

...a week full of them, actually. friends from england (whom i met while in peru) were in town: ellie + tom. and so, i spent most of the weekend in a drunken stupor. manuel munoz also entered my life - began reading his short story collection, "zigzagger," and it's just beautifully written. munoz certainly possesses that rare quality of moving his reader - i've been left breathless after a few stories, struck by the kind of painful pang that fills your body with a familiarity that you're not quite sure from where it originates. teaching - i've got 18 students and so far, they seem as a collective, quite lively, intelligent, and curious. i'm beyond excited to get to know them + see where they're headed with their respective research interests. it's just a bit intimidating, i must say, knowing that they're eating up your words, that there's a kind of responsbility i'm supposed to assume over their education.