December 2008
19 posts
new year's resolutions, pt. 2
6. answer the phone when friends call
7. keep plans
new year's resolutions
1. keep a (private) list of things bought/consumed vs. things made (includes writing)
2. eat healthier
3. be consistent with skincare routine (aka do not go to bed without washing face just because i feel lazy)
4. write more, even when there’s no class to make me
5. read more, even when there’s no time
writing workshops
Yesterday in my prison discussion class we watched a documentary on women in prison, specifically on Eve Ensler, the playwright who wrote the Vagina Monologues, and her writing workshop that she ran at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. I think it was called “What I Want My Words To Do To You.”
I had a lot of problems with the way the workshop was run - I thought the writing...
Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million -... →
“If the genome of an extinct species can be reconstructed, biologists can work out the exact DNA differences with the genome of its nearest living relative. There are talks on how to modify the DNA in an elephant’s egg so that after each round of changes it would progressively resemble the DNA in a mammoth egg. The final-stage egg could then be brought to term in an elephant mother, and...
Had a sudden panic attack about my story that I submitted for workshop last night - “Wait!” I thought, “It’s not right at all!” - so I rushed out of bed to write in an extra scene.
Now it’s 6 am and I’m wide awake. I wish the sun were up too.
This is a song Wiley made for me!
He knows what I...
good night
This blog title is almost unbearably pretentious so I might change it, but for an explanation, it’s from a line in Macbeth: “it is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/Signifying nothing.” Obviously the same line that Faulkner took his most famous book title from. Faulkner was kind of an ass, as it turns out.
John and I are up late. I’ve been sick and...