I am, as has historically been the case with these journals, supposed to be writing a paper. Yes, at 1:33 in the morning; my brain has not been functioning lately and I wasted the daylight hours, so this is my repentance and my desperate attempt to keep my head above water.
Rather than agreeing to write about the trend in the late nineteenth century to conflate "monstrous" or "primitive" physical attributes with being a criminal or a propensity for crime, my brain wants to do something introspective and melancholy. Go figure.
So here, for those few lost souls who find their way to me, is my real Christmas wish list. As much as I would like