The situation with the manuscript has changed. This is because I am not only suddenly going to AWP in March, but I am being paid to do so by the organization. Yes, this is so I can shill for the…
LC #8: Won’t that be nice
“…how much work and how many systems have been neglected over the last little bit — partly because of the ‘fuck it we’re moving’ bit, partly because of the three years of instability with jobs, and the questions about kids’…
LC #7: Of which there was just not enough
Not the day I drew up, or was it [?] Lots of cooking in the evening, an enormous tantrum by Monk during dinner, this unending train of gourmet food that she had no interest in eating, and of which there…
LC #6: Help me keep the ball moving
I wonder if regular journaling, even just for a few minutes at the END of the day, could help me keep the ball moving. December 31 2019 If I’ve learned anything in these years of tracking my writing time it’s…
LC #5: “Of great vintage”
“Hidden themes of great vintage may emerge” — that’s what one gerontologist told [journalist] Lee Eisenberg about diaries when re-read in old age, during what social scientists call a “life review.” December 31 2019 This line, of all the ones…
LC #4: Dedicated control
I also think having a dedicated “business day”–I wonder if Monday after A__ W__’s class would be a good time for that, a break from the most intense school of your week–would keep that part of things under control. December…
LC #3: Big ticket type adulting
It’s been helpful to think about the student loan as an advance against royalties, as a business loan of sorts…for big ticket type adulting. December 30, 2019 Indicative of a whole strain of throat-clearing, the is excerpt lives in an…
LC #2: That other work
Y_ S___ and S______ C_________ know each other. Make that work. ~Journal, December 13, 2019 Meritocracy is a myth, a damaging one that I nonetheless grew up steeped in. One way to think about merit is “intelligence-plus-effort” (Young). In fact,…
LC #1: The dissolving on the horizon
“Moving forward with things, I suppose. The magazine is dissolving, for one, which is good. The semester is coming to an end, slowly, and the next one is on the horizon.” ~Journal, December 13, 2019 I suppose what strikes me…
Lesser Conjunctions
What’s a diary for? That’s the question at the heart of this exercise. “Lesser Conjunctions” is a play on the name for the overlap in the night sky of two enormous planets on the winter solstice of 2020. Like the…
