:) Thank you! I haven't had anything to write about for a while - I think part of it is that I'm so busy with graduate school that everything I used to do for "fun" seems effortful, as though I have to make time to read, or write, or think. It's kind of awful - how a life of "freedom" (in that being a future professor is supposed to be free) is so obsessively restraining.
And beyond that - I haven't written anything that ... just ... reflects how I feel - in so long. Today, I tried to help my friend edit, revise, structure, write ... and no matter the length of time staring blankly at the page, or walking around, or scratching many things in anticipation of a thought, nothing happened. The staring let to more staring, let to distraction and frustration ... and giving up! When something is based on a feeling, how do you regain the feeling when it's gone?
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And beyond that - I haven't written anything that ... just ... reflects how I feel - in so long. Today, I tried to help my friend edit, revise, structure, write ... and no matter the length of time staring blankly at the page, or walking around, or scratching many things in anticipation of a thought, nothing happened. The staring let to more staring, let to distraction and frustration ... and giving up! When something is based on a feeling, how do you regain the feeling when it's gone?
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If you are "somebody I know" - I think I know who you are.
If you are "somebody I don't know" - then you still rock.
If you write "you don't know me" - I won't believe you.
I think I'm going to have to wait until this summer to take any sort of vacation - and it probably will only be to go back to where I grew up ...
Maybe I'll drive through Canada ... that sounds like fun!
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