I’m not sure I’m going to get done the thing for T—- for noon … but certainly that’s less late than I am for A–’s class, oy, which I thought I’d just swoop in and polish off after class until…
LC #18: The sing-for-your-supper portion of morning writing is over
The sing-for-your-supper portion of morning writing is over — some bullshit survey for [CCNY’s] Univ[ersity] Fac[ulty] Senate [about adaptations to emergency remote teaching during COVID-19], but it allowed me to then write T— and share the 4/16 freewrite handout. April…
LC #17: “A big question mark”
If Fall is a big question mark, that’s OK. It’s a big question mark for everyone, and you’ll be at least [in?] one place. April 16 2020 Writing those sentences in April, on a day that came a little more…
LC #16: “Dream Karaoke”
I definitely just smiled about school for the first time–maybe ever … when reading through the Dream Karaoke page for [Beth Nowviskie]. What made me happy there? I think just the encounter with someone who was so being themselves, for…
LC #15: “the habits of the guys who congregate outside the window”
I might have understated it, just a little. The city is in its third week of near-total lockdown, CUNY went online (following my lead heh heh) a few days after that entry, and thousands of New Yorkers have died of…
LC #14: “…the struggle to do anything beyond the most basic thing…”
What a strange stretch of days it’s been. Looking back in the last few entries — two in a month? — I’m struck by the same-ness of it all: the overwhelmed-by-school-ness, the tough-ness of the kids, the chaos of irregularity…
LC #13: Legos and not-listening
“It’s the end of a long first week of homemaking, with two major outside WHEELS obligations and the emotional dregs of a visit from my parents to deal with as well. All told, it went OK, til last night when…
LC #12: Jenga and the rules of the game
“The metaphor I suggest is of Jenga: discourse Is (sic) the overall structure, increasingly destabilized by individual acts of rhetoric until finally it toppled (sic) and is constructed and deconstructed anew, interfering with the rules of the game.” January 14…
LC #11: “I haven’t thought this much in 3 or 4 years.”
S started her first week at the new job, and she loves it. “I haven’t thought this much in 3 or 4 years,” she said last night. I sometimes feel the same way about the GC—sometimes, when the thing doesn’t…
LC #10: Devoted to the workshop and to moving the car
It’s been a busy few days — Sunday was the AWP news, Monday was all finishing up Old New York stuff, Tuesday Monk was randomly at home for a pre-K only in-service day of some kind. Wednesday was devoted to…
