I still love school. It's hard work, harder than I imagined going in -- not for the amount of work as the intensity of it. I love looking for connections in my reading, and challenging works make me happy. I haven't been disciplined about the reading or the thinking for many years. Making the connections that are deeper than the first layer -- not, "Alice in Wonderland is a dream vision, how cool it that?, but, "Hmm, what's up with the the flowers in Alice, as opposed the flowers in medieval ...