1. Numbering her best of 2008 starting at 1 and ending at 10, when every other top ten in history begins at 10 and ends at 1.
2. Not including as honorable mentions of 2008 Obama's acceptance speech, which was pretty cool, and Keith Olbermann's sublime November 10 diatribe against the passing of Prop 8. Or anything about Nadal winning the Olympics.
3. Watching all of the Olympics.
4. Watching rain fall on Flushing Meadows for three hours, hoping the US Open would resume, and then, when it didn't, watching some more.
5. Watching ten worst movies of 2008. That's at least twenty wasted hours--almost an entire day.
6. Buying a book of Allen Ginsberg's poems. Why did I do it?
7. Eliminating Swinburne from my syllabus in favor of more time with The Prelude.
8. Forgetting most of what I knew, and fearing most of what I didn't forget.
9. Not putting these mistakes in any meaningful order.
10. Appreciating too lately the various lovely scents--strawberry, fresh hay, watermelon, mysterious good thing--wafted from my rabbit's noggin.
2. Not including as honorable mentions of 2008 Obama's acceptance speech, which was pretty cool, and Keith Olbermann's sublime November 10 diatribe against the passing of Prop 8. Or anything about Nadal winning the Olympics.
3. Watching all of the Olympics.
4. Watching rain fall on Flushing Meadows for three hours, hoping the US Open would resume, and then, when it didn't, watching some more.
5. Watching ten worst movies of 2008. That's at least twenty wasted hours--almost an entire day.
6. Buying a book of Allen Ginsberg's poems. Why did I do it?
7. Eliminating Swinburne from my syllabus in favor of more time with The Prelude.
8. Forgetting most of what I knew, and fearing most of what I didn't forget.
9. Not putting these mistakes in any meaningful order.
10. Appreciating too lately the various lovely scents--strawberry, fresh hay, watermelon, mysterious good thing--wafted from my rabbit's noggin.
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