instead of spending my time dicking around on the internet.

but i took a short story class this past semester, and think i kind of prefer those (sometimes) to novels, so i think i'm gonna go to barnes and noble and use up my giftcard i got for xmas on Borges' "Ficciones" and Donald Barthalme's "40 stories." I had never heard of Barthalme before, but his story "the school" that we read seemed so ahead of its time in diction, structure, content, etc. (he wrote most of his good stuff between 1950s-70s, i think) that when our professor didn't tell us who the author was at first, i was going to guess dave eggers, who ironically is the editor of 40 stories, i think.

i also plan to cop hunter s. thompson's "the great shark hunt," a collection of a lot of his journalism.