…terror about extreme violence which my doing serious research and writing did at one time provoke. My irrational feeling is that I will keep life and limb together if I am not seen in process and if it doesn’t take time from other things. Coming up with offprints is fine, but one must not be … More This is what it is
We have MOOC fever here. Undine has unearthed commentary from Babbit. It is a must-read. Axé.
Goal: find files, put things in order, really start to write. Actually: I put in the time but the way I used it is, I found one file so rich I just read it and am rereading book it is based on, which is kind of a motherlode book as I now understand. In the … More El writing group
This is the sign of progress: I am reading and enjoying the Goldberg book. As I have said before: people keep insisting reading is a way to avoid writing; you cannot, however, write without it. It is a sign of progress because in my worst period I could not read. I would think: this resembles … More Cuba y la noche
Are triangulation, encroachment and enmeshment particularly Latin, or are they just epiphenomena of any patriarchal system? Man 1, at work: wants me to ally with him against Woman 1. I refuse so I am a “Puritan.” Man 2, at work: wants me to ally with him against Man 1 and with Woman 1. I refuse … More A serious question
I get to clock in another hour of work today, making five, because I have been experimenting with Lyx and that is what I am going to use. I will not have Scrivener, I will write in Lyx and put everything in well hierchized and well labeled files, old school style, and that is it. … More As e goes to infinity: further counter-advice on time
Two of the main pieces of advice given in the attempt to train people to compete down, and my answers to them. Standard: Submit to conferences abstracts for things you are going to write, that should be done by then. If they come out slightly different than planned, that is all right, you explain it … More More counter-advice
I am trying to understand the 18th century and I do not. It is foreign. Sugar ruled the 18th century. Look at about minute 24. Then is now. Current political organizing techniques were invented by the British anti-slavery movement. Corporate strategies were counter-organizing by the sugar industry. Axé.
Day 1 – 9 hours TEACHING Day 2 – 3 hours TEACHING, 4 hours SERVICE Day 3 – 9 hours TEACHING Day 4 – 2 hours SERVICE, .5 hours RESEARCH Day 5 .5 hours RESEARCH Day 6 – 2 hours RESEARCH Day 7 – 5 hours TEACHING, 1 hour RESEARCH Total TEACHING: 26 hours … … More Work tracking summary in a bad week
I feel claustrophobic in Maringouin for good reason and I have financial claustrophobia, and both of these situations are real and not changeable by me — I have in fact tried too hard to adjust, if anything. I also get claustrophobia from being crowded, leaned on. But the root of claustrophobia is not having enough space … More An insight on claustrophobia
