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I have an appointment at 3:30 this afternoon. The timing is awkward because getting the bus home from medical campus after 4 p.m. means either squeezing onto a bus that's barely got standing room or going downtown and catching a different bus home. The former is much faster, a lot faster.

If it's warm and not raining, I might just walk home. Intersecting with the other bus line without going downtown is iffy and might have me standing at a stop for half an hour if I'm unlucky. None of the stops I can walk to have a bench, and there's only one bus every 30 minutes.

I have two goals for today. The first is canon review for one of my two projects. The second is changing our sheets. I figure there's at least a chance that the missing library CD is somewhere in our bed.

Cordelia's English class will be reading The Catcher in the Rye. I'm not sure what else is on the syllabus.

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*Why* do so many classes read The Catcher in the Rye? That's a book that a lot of people seem to find meaningful, so I have read it several times, trying to figure out what people like about it, but I have entirely missed not only why they think it is wonderful, but why anybody thinks it is good literature. Sigh. My best guess is that a lot of people feel deeply disaffected with life, and that the book speaks to that. Me personally, I like life, and find the book baffling.

I think it's the teenage cis, het, white guy equivalent of the standard literary novel about the cis, het, white guy having a midlife crisis. It fits the pattern of Important Literature but is about teens, therefore the kids will love it! Kind of like making high school freshmen read Romeo and Juliet.

Blahhhhhh!