Anthem

Every semester, I fall prey to two things at finals:

1) Junk food
2) Junk music

It's taken me several years to accept it, but I am not only an emotional eater but an emotional listener as well. 1L year, I couldn't stop listening to Mariah Carey. 2L year, Carrie Underwood. This was not the sustenance on which I was raised.

But, nature trumps breeding, and this year, I have Mariah Carey on continuous loop. Again.

Untied States

I wonder if the professor would notice if I didn't correct my typos.

Unwittingly bourgeois

It's the final weekend of my fall semester; I'm down to tackling that never-ending paper about non-immigrant temporary guest-workers.[FN1]

As I've started to collect my citations, I've noticed that all my examples from the popular press come from the The New York Times. This alarms me for two reasons:

1. I complained earlier about less-than-rigorous scholarship in the literature. When I cite only to one newspaper in a forty-five page essay, I contribute to that less-than-rigorous scholarship. (Though I have plenty, plenty of other sources - triple-digit footnotes, here I come.)

2. I really am as bourgeois as I look. Bad.

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FN1. Note the maximization of character count. "Non-immigrant" instead of "nonimmigrant." "Guest-workers" instead of "guestworkers."