I have been kicking around the idea of starting a workshop group for reticent writers- a no-commitment and non-threatening group for those writiers who are too scared to workshop, those with writers block, begginers and relaxed old-hads at the art of word-smithing. The idea is that we workshop and discuss/express our ideas, but there is no pressure or commitment to show work. I want to encourage people to write without forcing it out of them or scare them away from initial writing. Writier... read more

Terry is here!
I am dying to come home already now that I am done- I want to see my friends, dammit! I have been living in a Prison.
Finally I get to communicate with my super dudical friend, Terry. I joined her tribe and now I'm one of the people in the know.
I love you Terry!

After a year of intense work my MA is finally complete. The dissertation is being bound. 80 pages including title page.
I have learned that deadlines are a good thing. If I didn't have a deadline for the beast I could tinker with it forever. I would drive myself mad. Although I will never be satisfied with what I have done, I am willing to relinquish it to the deadline. I can finally sleep.


The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety and Wit
Shal... read more

This is binding day eve. I can't sleep. Went to bed at a decent hour with a minor headache, but woke up an hour and a half later with a rager. Took headache medicine not thinking about the caffeine that is an active ingredient in many headache medications. So now caffeine + anxiety has me all cracked-out. I am in limbo. I must write a succinct abstract for the dissertation by late morning, but I can't get the rest I need in order to write properly, yet I am not awake enough (the faculti... read more

Yes, I am bored an avoiding tidying up the dissertation and writing the abstract. This is a mere distraction before I plunge on. Can't wait to be done with the beast.