Between the Covers

I've been doing long hours typing up my paper for class on the Ṛigveda myth of Indra slaying Vṛtra and freeing the waters and lights. I don't really want to write about it since it's about all that's been in my brain for weeks now, I'm sweating vajras and soma. And it's occluding everything I'd rather discuss about mythology that's come up recently, such as modern myths about race or the Native American geographical myths we trekked through out west this summer. Hopefully I'll have more time to write about this stuff as I wrap up the paper for thursday, and the other paper that's due, and the personal myth I still have to edit.

Despite this (or perhaps because I needed a break) I decided to do a bit of interweb housecleaning, finally getting a gmail account, and starting a new blog which I can use to focus on my studies of cultural and literary myth-making, and keep my "academic" interests more clearly distinguished from my own personal story line.