How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Slowing down

Didn't duplicate yesterday's energy but got some office work done, not a wasted morning anyway. Relaxing, or trying to, while listening to Mariners game.

Email from 1980s actress, now involved in "hyperdrama" in Houston. Sounds pretty tame.

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Mellow!

Getting work done in morning makes all the difference for rest of day.

76000 for Nebraska spring game!

Ms needed this

5-4 in 11 innings, coming back several times. This is the team I want to see all year.

My rhythm

Work in the morning ... relax rest of day. Try for same tomorrow and Monday - and office might be done. Then go for rest of house.

At last

Worked 3 hrs in the office, progress but not done with housekeeping. Also did prep for Tues workshop. A good morning!

Friday, April 10, 2015

Mariners nightmare

Terrible start to season ... too much preseason hype.

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Old age

H is dragging ass today, too ... but has a sader to go to. We decided it may just be pushing 80 that depletes our energy.

If I can spend several hrs on office chores tomorrow, my spirits will rise.

Flat

I had great constructive plans for the day ... but no energy. Dead on my feet.

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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Running on empty

What a fine film with this title! .. and how I feel this afternoon ...

Going down slow

Feel an illness coming on ... only have to show film in class ... maybe home to bed then ...

R.I.P. Stan Freberg

Second only to Tom Lehrer as my favorite humorist in early 1950s.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Vegetable

In an evening funk ... maybe the Ms game will revive me.

No energy

Lots to do, no energy to do it.

Clean deck looks great ... pick paint color on Friday.

So much to do! zzzzzzzzz ...

Blessed are the Aged

blessed are the aged
for they have paid dues
in years and health
and deserve whatever
peace and quiet
the gods will give them

blessed are the aged
who have more memories
of more accomplishments
than youth will ever
experience or know

blessed are the aged
who look at the world
and find no desire
to be any younger

blessed are the aged
who ask for nothing
but a little respect

blessed are the aged
whose time is past

blessed are the aged

Cleaning the deck

Moving prep gets serious ...


Sinatra

Gadgets

Not since the AlphaSmart have I been so enamored of a tech gadget as I am of the Kindle Fire 6. A perfect fit to my needs, the smaller, lighter size making all the difference. And it's faster (not sure why). Like the AS, which I still use (!), I feel this is as good as it gets, or at least as good as I need. Examples of less is more.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Evening at home

OMG

I may have made the best rye bread I ever tasted ... bread dough plus dark rye plus cracked rye plus organic carraway seeds ... OMG!

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Exhaustion

Man, I'm done for the day. Teaching gets more exhausting every term. But my new approach works: I leave everything behind in the classroom.

Women's final soon ... on paper, no contest. But you have to play the game.

Deck washing tomorrow, hired out, and I'll strip my office for moving. So much work to do to prep for selling ...

Catch up

Need to get back to Brown posts ...

Great tablet

The Kindle Fire 6 has to be the best tablet under $100 on the market. I prefer it to the 7 inch: lighter, faster, smaller but not too small. Sling TV and WatchESPN run great on this, loading faster than on the larger model. The camera is good enough for me, with front and back lenses. Obviously I am delighted!

Monday, April 6, 2015

Relaxation

Nope

Not even watching D v W ... Mariners glow uninterrupted or something.

Opening day win!

Check out the Angels @ Mariners on Yahoo Sports
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/games/350406112

36 lectures

... each half an hour, on Classical Greek Literature, my audio "class" at the moment. Transcendentalism comes next. Maybe do Shostakovich again, too ...

Play ball!

Mariners start soon ... morning chores done. Gonna enjoy baseball on the radio.

Rise and shine

The way it is

in a zero sum universe
full of horrors & atrocities
balanced by wonders & gifts
I am unapologetically selfish
preferring one to the other
and thereby passing the lance
of evil to the next guy

Wee small hours


Still testing camera ...
man, the 6 inch is so light and convenient, but more powerful than the7. Love it! 

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Testing the camera

New Fire 6

Got a new mini Kindle Fire ... very sweet.

Challenge

Outside lawn work before the rain today ...

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Milk toast

I must have gone over 50 yrs without once eating milk toast. This was what my mother gave me when I was sick: warm milk toast with a poached egg on top.

About five or ten years ago, I began living on homemade scrapple and often would put a fried slice on milk toast, eggs on that.

Then I quit making scrapple when I started baking bread - one obsession at a time. But today's breakfast is typical lately, homemade milk toast and eggs. Still great comfort food.

And these days I need all the comfort I can get.

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Friday, April 3, 2015

Fly fishing

Yesterday at the university

In the student union ... iced coffee, maple bar, hour before class, ah does this bring back memories. I'm impressed with myself, designing a course like a workshop, which means I bring less home to deal with and instead get them working in class. Harder in class, easier at home ... a good trade, under the circumstances.

Show a doc about screenwriting today, easy day. Real work begins next two weeks, lectures and exercises and workshops. Still working on structure of workshops ... think I'll make groups of four, same four thru entire course, Group work, then sharing with entire class ... lots of q and a. Atmosphere for picking my brain.

Steve and I are marketing the old splay again. Agent friend of his didn't pan out, as I predicted!, so first step is going after agent. None of my old ones still around. Though the agencies are. This is a long shot ... should have been marketed 2 and 3 yrs ago, when all the similar Silicon Valley stuff was getting bought ... may be too late for that fad. It's all about being in the right place at the right time with the right material. In other words, a total crapshoot. Totally!

Am I the only writer left in America who loves using the AlphaSmart, as I am now? Yep, the AS rides again.


Top priority

Working on house for next four days, prep for putting it on market.

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

R.I.P.

Think my Kindle Fire 7 is on its last legs ... served me well, long past warranty, so I can't complain. Excuse to upgrade ... though I may go down to a six inch to save some bucks, now that we have Fire TV.

First week done, 9 to go. Fun so far. More than I expected.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Song of the Innocent

now that the jury
has found me innocent
and without dissent

let me thank you
for the free room and board
in jail awaiting trial

44 months worth!
with opportunities for
solitary meditation

all at tax payer expense
more generous hearts
cannot be found

but my freedom now
is a bit of a shock
so please forgive me

if I don't send out
thank you cards
please forgive me

if my universal answer
to just about everything
you may want to know is

fuck you!
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