Bessie Smith makes amazing music when you can't sleep. I think I spent most of the night listening to her!

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Chapter 3 now has 15 pages... it's a bit more than half way done ( Read more... )

I FINISHED CHAPTER 1 ( Read more... )

or does the last week before the 1st draft deadline feel worse than any finals week I have ever experienced (minus the one that landed me in a hospital).

Fuck, I didn't meet my goal, and I am exhausted. Here is the overview of what my goals were ( Read more... )

In the last few days, the Reed chapter of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) were putting up flags on the Front Lawn representing the dead as a result of the Iraq War. There are several hundred thousand white flags for Iraqis (1 flag represents 6 dead), and 3,000 red flags for the American solidiers (this time a 1:1 ratio). The growth of this ( Read more... )

Deadlines until March 23rd ( Read more... )

I am so proud of myself. I am managing to listen to my interviews and translate them directly from portuguese without first transcribing them as is!!!! I did not know I had this capability. I only have difficulty with words I don't actually know in the first place, but I take a jab at it, look it up in a good electronic portuguese dictionary (I ( Read more... )

I FUCKING HAVE THREE WEEKS UNTIL MY FIRST DRAFT IS DUE!!!!

WHY DID I FUCKING FALL SUCK AND LOSE AN ENTIRE WEEK, HOW AM I GOING TO GET THINGS DONE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!