Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Ostatnie Dobre Słowo

A Vice Demigod (this is not a redundancy) in the university’s central office of Human Resources, Patti, has granted my request for a RECESS (Reduced Employment Costs thru Employee Salary Savings) appointment, providing that oh so necessary bureaucratic “last good word.” It’s officially so ON! baby.

Busy with work, I’ve had time only to attend to the extracurricular activities around becoming Polish. True, I have refinished Miłosz’s New and Collected Poems (1931-2001) and dipped into Kołokowski, as time permits, but only in translation, as the intellectually lazy do. The good word comes none too soon.