5/16: reading
...a former student's statement of purpose for graduate school and making suggestions. It's been quite some time since she graduated, so reading her narrative of herself was like re-meeting her and feeling anew how great a person she is.
5/15: altered Odysseys
A few days more than a year ago I set up the Altered Odysseys website (here) and posted about it (here). Today I added some erasures made by a student who did an independent study on the Odyssey with me this past spring. The number of contributors has more than doubled in a year--though still modest (10 contributors and 38 pieces overall), it's real.
5/14: all the PDFs
This morning I formatted the rest of the PDFs for Heron Tree's special series on visual poetry. I usually do the PDFs one at a time, about 2 weeks before a poem is set to go up, but it felt really good to get them all done upfront.
5/12: time to breathe
There's work from the school year to finish, and there's summer work of many sorts to do. But today was a day for pausing and relaxing and remembering what it's like to pause and relax.
Among other good things: I made honeysuckle syrup, read some of Donne's Holy Sonnets, went for the first summer outing in my kayak, and listened to Julius Eastman while working on my photos.
Among other good things: I made honeysuckle syrup, read some of Donne's Holy Sonnets, went for the first summer outing in my kayak, and listened to Julius Eastman while working on my photos.
5/11: the bases
Today, without planning it, I touched all four of my "bases":
Work: Emails about academic appeals; follow-ups with students about their grades.
House or self: A radiology appointment.
Contact with the outside world: Writing more Postcrossing postcards as well as a thank-you note to a friend.
Exercise: A walk at the track.
And bonuses: quiet writing at home in the afternoon; Shirley Temples with Chris before dinner; subscribing to frieze magazine because Artforum might not be enough; taking some turns in a collaborative erasure project with a friend.
Work: Emails about academic appeals; follow-ups with students about their grades.
House or self: A radiology appointment.
Contact with the outside world: Writing more Postcrossing postcards as well as a thank-you note to a friend.
Exercise: A walk at the track.
And bonuses: quiet writing at home in the afternoon; Shirley Temples with Chris before dinner; subscribing to frieze magazine because Artforum might not be enough; taking some turns in a collaborative erasure project with a friend.
5/10: no alarm
...necessary because I finished my grading and grade-entering last night. There was still an afternoon of work (and, alas, stress), but my morning included some time on the porch in the amazing-smelling spring during which I addressed envelopes for Postcrossing.
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