Josef K. (in Kafka's "Prozess") is doomed (he doesn't even know of what he's being accused), just like we are doomed to winter for the next 8 months or so, but right now, at the end of a classes-free warm day (probably the last classes-free warm day of the year), I'm feeling good :) because, for the moment, I have tobacco, canned food, drink, and both kinds of coffee (the dark roasted, coarse ground real coffee for the french press in my apartment, and the vile instant coffee I must drink at my office), and my winter coat has been dry cleaned ... Ideally, I'd have liked to get a haircut today as well, but I can't do that in the middle of classes (it distracts my students too much), so I already got my hair cut during October Break, and I'll just let it grow until it's after Finals Week, and I'll consider it a natural hat until then :) The one other thing I needed before winter was new boots, but I didn't want to waste any part of today driving across town to buy boots, so I'll just do that some other day, and, for this evening, I'll just go ahead and feel good already, like Herr K. managed to do in spite of being doomed, in spite of knowing that he was doomed.
Oh and I also filled out my application to next year's (German) summer school :) and---now that I come to think of it---that might be a large part of why I'm feeling good :) try it yourself and see?
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