6/16: a quick erasure
...of a paragraph from Joyce's Ulysses this evening to mark Bloomsday: the possible is a library of candescent forms.
6/14: reading good articles
...in Artforum this morning. Now that I've worked through my stack of past NYTBRs, it's time to move on to accumulated Artforum issues, which tend to get my brain going in interesting ways. During the school year I don't usually have time to let my brain "go in interesting ways," so the copies pile up until breaks and summer.
6/13: more website work
...though this time for Altered Odysseys, the online gallery in which I post students' creative projects using Greek and Roman epics. I needed to add a selection of pieces from each of the 3 students who did the project this year, and I also spent time checking past posts and tinkering with them if/as necessary (for formatting issues, consistency, visibility, etc.). I've had 20 students participate in the project since it started (in 2016), which I think is a nice number for a wholly co-curricular, self-motivated, and admittedly off-the-beaten-track undertaking. I felt fondly grateful to each of them as I revisited their pieces today.
6/12: learning
...a new word: hocket. It's a noun that names the alternating of a melody line between two (or more) voices or instruments. One voice or instrument picks up when another ends. The musical practice (from the Middle Ages) is interesting, and so is the word's etymology: it comes from the French word for hitch or hiccup!
6/11: some tidying
...of the Heron Tree website. I decluttered the archive contents pages. As websites go, they weren't very cluttered to begin with, but I wanted to streamline them even more.
6/10: the whole night through
I've been waking up in the middle of the night most nights recently, but I didn't wake up in the wee hours today.
6/9: four for four
I've attended four Zoom lectures since the semester ended, and all of them have been good.
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