1/14/10-1/28/10

Kept running out of time to update this...

1. Short Story (2)
- "How Ivan Ivanovich quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich" by Nikolai Gogol
- "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (13)
- "The Enigma" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "Return to Tipasa" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Sea Close By" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Rains of New York" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays
- "A Causal Theory of Knowing" by Alvin Goldman
- "Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief" by Keith Lehrer and Thomas Paxson
- "Knowledge" by Robert Nozick
- "Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions" by Keith DeRose
- Ethical Intuitionism Chapter 2 "Non-Cognitivism" by Michael Huemer
- "Toward a Regional Cosmopolitanism: The CAse of Mulk Raj Anand" by Jessica Berman
- Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy by Jerry L. Walls - Introduction
- Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy by Jerry L. Walls - Chapter 1: "Heaven and God's Goodness"
- "The Thought: A Logical Inquiry" by Gottlieb Frege (who is a badass)

4. Books (2)
- Finished Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (for class)
- Read Thud! by Terry Pratchett

8. Checked out The King in Yellow

35. 18 pages

74. Have been reading every day upon waking for 3 days

85. 28.2% completion in GT3

88. Started the Baghvad Gita

1/13/10

1. Short Story (0)
- Began "How Ivan Ivanovich quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich" by Nikolai Gogol (25/50 pages)

2. Essay (2)
- "Helen's Exile" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "Knowledge and Grounds: A Comment on Mr. Gettier's Paper" by Michael Clark


4. Books
-Continued Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (86/157) (for class)

1/12/10

2. Essay (3)
- Epistemology: Contemporary Readings - Part III (The Nature and Scope of Justification and Knowledge), Ch 8 (The Analysis of Knowledge), Introduction (by Michael Huemer)
- Ethical Intuitionism - Introduction, by Michael Huemer
- "Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure" by A.J. Ayer


3. Poems (6)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Bodhidharma"
- "Rain"
- "Christmas Sparrow"
- "The Stare"
- "Surprise"
- "Poetry"

4. Books
-Continued Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (66/157) (for class)

1/11/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (1)
- "A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete

1/10/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (1)
- "Prometheus in the Underworld" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete

3. Poems (4)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Elk River Falls"
- "Earth"
- "Colorado"
- "Lying in Bed in the Dark, I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona"

4. Books
-Began Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (31/157) (for class)

75. Job interview at Tee & Cakes; got an application for Flatiron Coffee

1/9/10

1. Short Story (2)
- "I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said" by Richard Bowes (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
- "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (2)
- "The Minotaur, or Stopping in Oran" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Almond Trees" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete

3. Poems (6)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "To My Patron"
- "Writing in the Afterlife"
- "The Parade"
- "The Only Day in Existence"
- "No Time"
- "Balsa"

4. Books
-Continued The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (876/1112) (page numbers are continuous with the whole trilogy)
-Began Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (31/157) (for class)

35. Wrote 2 more pages in Notebook

1/7/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "Inside Time" by Tim Sullivan (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)

2. Essay (1)
- "The Desert" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from Noces

3. Poems (3)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Death in New Orleans, a Romance"
- "Air Piano"
- "Drawing"

4. Books
-Started The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (826/1112) (page numbers are continuous with the whole trilogy)

53. Woke up at 10; tried to go to bed at midnight, ended up at 4.

60. Failed!

74. Failed the next day, so.

84. Got to the end of FH in FFVIII