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Mary Beth and i went and tried this new east african place on Jackson right near Trezevant...it's this tiny hole in the wall place but it was awesome, it's called Gereny (when i first read about it i thought it said "germany" and had german and african and middle eastern food...but that was wrong, the germany part...) it's cheap as heck too! it's a flat $10 for eating no matter what you get in the way of drinks or whatever...we had goat soup that was good, my entree was goat and Mary Beth had this stuff with this banana paste stuff that was awesome...it was delicious...afterwards we drove around all over the place...first to this Goodwill i'd never realized was there on Austin Peaye that i noticed coming back from my class...i picked up a couple books: What We Talk About When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver, El Caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega, and María by Jorge Isaacs (the latter two en español)...i also saw a stack of NES games hiding inside the counter and they were all $2 and i didn't have any of 'em and so i bought 'em all!: Karnov, Super Pitfall, Legacy of the Wizard, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Marble Madness, Section Z, and Slalom...then out at barnes and noble i got Too Far from Home by Paul Bowles as they had a stack of 'em they were desperately trying to get rid of for less than $2 (it's kind of a weird "selected writings" thing, much of which is redundant but with some stuff that probably isn't in anything else...and was definitely right for the price...) and then at spin street i picked up a couple of used cds: Githead: Profile, Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall, and Bowery Electric: Vertigo...at work today i finished reading both The Man without Qualities Volume I by Robert Musil and ;or The Whale by Herman Melville...the Musil: good and very long...to me it's somewhat like a cross between Proust and Thomas Mann...and i'm not even halfway through yet as the second (unfinished) volume is even insanely longer...the Melville: i already explained the premise behind this Review of Contemporary Fiction issue when i first got it, but i'll recap: pretty much it's the anti-abridgement of "Moby-Dick in Half the Time"...it was great...Moby-Dick being one of my favorite books now, it was fun to reread the "extraneous" half or so...and much fun with the Burroughs-esque results of the cutup leftovers for much of it...moving on, my online-only class doesn't have any due dates...we're just expected to have everything in at some point and are to understand that the pace is one module per week...i'll probably be a little lax while my double-speed class is going on, but i shouldn't ignore the other class...i guess i should get on that now...