i've had a very busy day and feel at ease sitting down to write for the blog right now. i just got back from doing volunteer work for the berkeley needle exchange which felt enlightening in contrast the rush of other things lately. i have an anthropology assignment i am avoiding. i've been sick this past week and am entering recovering, though i am going to the doctor tomorrow for an unrelated ailment. after the doctor tomorrow i am planning to hole up in a cafe for a few hours to write an expand upon a few things that have come up in past free writes. a lot of things feel interwoven lately which i find helpful, subject matter in classes over lapping and projects integrating..it is helpful to stay in a similar frame of mind for me. everything to kind of together. i am thinking about going home over spring break or for easter. i am looking forward to our author presentation on friday. i am frying catfish later tonight.
xoxo
I hope that catfish was good.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm happy to see your classes overlapping to help you get into the mindset for your project work. I've had that happen before and goodness is it a great feeling...and kind of spooky, how everything falls into place when you most want/need it to. Not sure if you needed/wanted it to for you, but you're finding it helpful, so you're open to it. That's the key.
...And now *I* want some fish.
I love how you use these blog posts. I always look forward to what you write and immensely enjoy the pictures you include. It just makes the page look so much more inviting. I'm going to have to start incorporating pictures into my blog posts too. Also, are these pictures for inspiration, or do you also plan on incorporating them into your thesis project?
ReplyDeleteI'm taking inspiration from all of my classes right now and channeling them into my thesis. I can't really say they line up--although that has happened before and almost felt like I was cheating at life--but I'm keeping them all in mind as I go forward with this project. And not just my current courses, but those from the past as well. Why did I take them, if not to help me become a better writer? I'm sure there are reasons, but I can't think of them now. My mind is here.
I love too Heidi that you shake off the day in the blog. I keep cleanup journals that i write before i sit down to work on my novel. Cluttered is the real deal but it doesn't change, you'll have a job, a family, a society or something to always get in the way of the state of grace you write in.
ReplyDeleteI like that you used the blog to just wind down from your day and your week, I feel like that's definitely one of the benefits of writing/blogging...just a sense of relief (at least that's what I usually get from it) It's great that you find your classes overlapping and that it's helping you to write - I had that last semester, assignments in two of my classes basically overlapped and both of them pretty much inspired the thesis project I'm working on now. Like Kendra said, it's a great feeling!
ReplyDeleteIt is useful that in all of the life that is happening, you're able to observe and hold onto this: "a lot of things feel interwoven lately which i find helpful, subject matter in classes over lapping and projects integrating..it is helpful to stay in a similar frame of mind for me. everything to kind of together." I think what you post speaks to is the way in which writing is an inextricable part of life, which means that it contends as Elmaz wrote, with everything. It's important to find practices that help us carve that specific mind/physical/intellectual/spiritual/emotional space to do the work. Way to use this space as a resource towards that.
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