My name in lights

I have just received in my mailbox my contributor's copies for Storytelling, Self, Society. My name's in the table of contents under Jack Zipes*! Squee!

*Lefty fairy tale scholar and Grimm translator. Not always right, but always interesting, and he's certainly interesting here.

It's that time of year, so...

I got a cell phone as an early Christmas present; felt that I'd need one, and the cheapie that I got last year was so cheap as to be unusable. Prepaid, again, with a company I don't detest as much.

Aside from that, I'm not asking for much. I hope to be moving in a couple months--not that I don't like Carrboro, but if I'm employed at all, I'm sure that it won't be here, because my classmates are mostly better-qualified than I am, and many of them want to stay in the area. And I've got to keep personal possessions to a minimum. Which doesn't stop me from buying more books, but I'd prefer it if other people didn't abet me in that.