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settling in
Back to daily writing. -
it's been a hard day
It's been a hard day and maybe this is not the right time to be following the Disch LJ and comments, but then again maybe it is.... -
when it's better the rest is worse
Well, now that the one chapter actually is better style-wise, everything else is now terrible in comparison. Truly I am no writer.... -
how many details?
I'm thinking of calling the new book Grain of Detail. It's about reenactments as elements in changes in what we've thought of as authors and audiences since the invention of authorship in the seventeenth century. Now these are becoming distributed elements in new forms of production for many more kinds of groups than audiences and with much less ( Read more... ) -
washing the floor
Knew I had business to take care of today -- stuff that's "for others" although to my benefit in a larger sense. But the kind of stuff I hate anyway, and when "for me" I often just don't do -- not always good either ( Read more... ) -
working on sunday
I am just not getting enough done on the book revision. I"m worried. And I have a million bits to do for school now over the summer which I really find distracting. I am not a multitasker. -
NASA culture
I went to the Folklife Festival yesterday -- good thing, the weather was almost perfect and today will be THICK AND HOT.
Here's the website: http://www.folklife.si.edu/festival/2008/index.html
I didn't do the Texas part, I'd left it til last and around 3:30 I was too hot and tired to go on there.
Met my friend Gretchen and we did Bhutan song and dance ( Read more... ) -
the writing draw...
I have a bunch of fiddly things to do for school and a couple of non-writing chores that need to get done pretty soon -- on deadlines -- and I should just give over the morning to them, get them done and out of my hair ( Read more... ) -
sea lions barking
It's just a bit chilly this morning -- very unusual in DC in summer time.
I put on an ocean sounds album and the bits of sounds of backwash transported me to the Santa Cruz pier.
I can see the sea lions now, lazing in the sun and shade, occasionally barking, but mostly moistly and sort of gelatinously adjusting themselves on the planks below. -
anxiety
It's embodied -- it's neurological as well as everything else. It has a kind of life of its own, not connected to the sites to which it attaches. It's neurons firing, hormones going up and down in "sympathy", memories and emotional associations triggered with the amygdala and affecting the hippocampus ( Read more... )