Reading and Joyce -- but I'm not reading Joyce

Today's been rather uneventful. I worked in the morning, taught class over noon hour, and worked again in the afternoon. Work was rather uneventful, and class was fun (or at least I thought it was fun; I really don't know what my students thought). There's a lecture on-campus tonight over Joyce's Ulysses, and I think I'll probably go. I kinda need to spend the evening reading, but the lecture's sponsored by the department and I didn't go to the lectures held last semester because of class conflicts, so I feel like I probably should go. Hopefully I'll still be able to get in a few solid hours of reading after the lecture....