of school and stress

I have been crazy busy, which is why there haven’t been any postings here. That and I apparently have tendonitis in my right hand, which makes it painful to do most things, including using a computer, since I am right-handed. I went to the doctor yesterday, and he gave me some hardcore anti-inflammation drugs, which [...]

it doesn’t pay to be pc

I have nothing of interest to post, so I am going to repeat some things my professor said last night in class.
“The pressure to proceed with delicacy is the death of good writing,” she said. We were talking about Hiroshima, which of course, wouldn’t have been written if Hersey had been trying to go along [...]

procrastination

I am back in school and I have lots of work to do, and not a lot of focus. I have my first piece due in Nonfiction Book workshop next week, and though I have 70 pages of book, none of it seems appropriate for turning in to a workshop, so i have been messing [...]

turning points

I have just consumed my one annual meal from McDonalds. I have not eaten well — or enough — in the past 24 hours, and suddenly I craved fat and red meat. I tend to listen to my body’s cravings (except for its almost daily need for ice cream) and so I walked a few [...]

power+memory=art

I got the job at the lit magazine! Yay! No more working at the desk. I worked my last 2-hour shift this morning, and I’ll start at the magazine next week. I was so ridiculously nervous in the interview that when the managing editor asked me what I like to read, I completely blanked on [...]

book shopping

So I’m back in my little apartment in Cambridge, gearing up for the loads of reading and writing coming my way this semester. I think I have 22 books for this 13-week semester, which is a lot, but they are interesting books, mostly memoirs and literary journalism…no textbooks or theory reading. And, as previously mentioned, [...]

reading lists, revisited

Ok, so I’ve improved my outlook toward my reading lists/classes since my last post. I just got the reading list for my literature class and it is a fat list of hard-hitting nonfiction, which makes me a)somewhat grateful for the redundancy in my other class (I won’t die of overreading!) and b)more excited about this [...]

anxious

I am headed back to Boston tomorrow to begin another nine months of MFA classes, bicoastal marriage and actually experiencing the seasons. I have been trying to look at it this way: I’ve already gotten through one year of school, now there’s just 2 semesters left. No problem. But the truth is I have been [...]

sick over Katrina, fate of animals

I read the following online today regarding getting people out of the Superdome:
‘Many people had dogs and they cannot take them on the bus. A police officer took one from a little boy, who cried until he vomited. “Snowball, snowball,” he cried. The policeman told a reporter he didn’t know what would happen to the [...]