Whoa, there is a big beautiful fierce thunderstorm outside that whipped buckets of rain down and just subsided briefly to a hazy bright sky. Tornado warnings afoot but safe in the now-stuffy house I just feel that electric storm-excitement.

I presented on my thesis at the philosophy end-of-year party last night and it went well and I got good feedback and had fun eating good food and schmoozing. Uma seems set on helping me publish something soon so that's exciting too.

Today I have to write my last-ever paper at Vassar, that Agamben thing. I gotta get to it now that I've been awake for 41/2 hours and haven't touched the damn thing.