i should've updated tuesday, or over the weekend, or on some day when i've got all the time in the world but blurting out quick sentences  will have to do. 
nick and i moved - not too far, still within boston (or an exclave within boston proper, still in the thick of an annually renewed crop of collegiate boston hipsters and russian emigres who'll never lose the accent.  the new apartment is awesome - huge (comparatively), semi-subterranean, decorated with increasing religious ornament. 
i've started working at the goethe-institut as an evening receptionist, which somewhat validates my education history.  it's nice and predictably teutonic but the job is pretty slow so i can read for hours.  they've got a sizeable library whose film section includes tons of biographical, critical, and screenplay stuff on fassbinder so i've been sneaking stuff out and translating museum and festival catalogs. 
the iffboston is starting today but i don't think i'll be able to do any stuff for it.  i did a few synopses and reviews for the book and was supposed to hang out with harmkor when he came round, but who knows now, i'm busy busy busy.  after it's over i'm worried i'll have no film-writing stuff to work on until the next festival season, which would be a bummer.  there's schoolwork, but i just can't bring myself to care. 
apc is carrying sailor shirts and i'm freaking out.  i really want both the white and the black but worry about spending my entire tax return on clothes from the pierre et gilles costume box.  besides, i've been really into colors - colors and nothing else, and would worry about the effect with navy. 
also:  there's almost nothing i love so much as beverly hills 90210 right now - more specifically, brandon walsh.  in addition, i've been reading wallace stevens and watching sally fields movies non stop - it's a constant emotional journey.  i thought about putting 'the prince of tides' on my netflix queue, but then got suicidal.  gaga.

p.s.  has anyone read 'salammbo'?