David Foster Wallace's essays on tennis, television, and the Illinois State Fair: I'd forgotten that yeah, these things ARE actually as weird as they first appear ("These things" - rote sporting practice, fear of tornadoes, the pressing desire to come home and watch Buffy, and the Maryland Horse Expo). Reading the State Fair essay, especially, feels like having a slightly worried voice in my head, rephrasing things I think and believe, and being substantially more panicked than I was at the time.

Less talking, more reading!