Last Sunday I did something I didn’t exactly expect to find in Paris, go to a gigantic horse track to watch some races. I even placed a couple bets and walked away with a grand profit of a whopping 2 euros, not too shabby. I forgot to bring my camera, but suffice [...]

Recently I read James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I have to say that it was the most difficult book to read that I have read in quite some time, but this is largely due to the endnote design of the version I had. Joyce makes seemingly constant [...]

Last weekend I had a great opportunity to finally catch up on school work. With two tests and a term paper due this week I was looking forward to a slight head start. Fortunately I was smart enough to do enough studying for one of the tests, but mostly I read Toni Morrison’s [...]