I have started researching ideas for an paper on global citizenship education (which i will need to write this semester for a course). I'm thinking about writing it about the Middle East (Afghanistan?) because it's current-event-relevant & my goal is to get it published.
I also emailed my professor to ask for a constructive feedback session re: the paper I will be presenting at the academic conference. Hopefully this week.
I started a new blog which I will only post in once a week. It's called New Week's Resolutions. Every week I will have one discipline to practice religiously. #1 is washing the dishes every night. I also decided to be vegetarian as possible for the YEAR. Not that that is related to art or writing. But. I stopped putting it off? =)
I bought my books for this semester's classes (only $36!!!) and started reading Eat, Pray, Love for fun. It is important for me to read for FUN & not just academia, otherwise I stop being a person.
I'm afraid that one thing I do to procrastinate is The Next Best Thing that I should be doing. It tricks me into thinking I'm not actually procrastinating, because I AM being productive and important after all. But when there is a #1 priority staring at me, I kind of get nervous and do #2. I don't know how to get around this, because the defense mechanism ("Look, I'm at least getting SOMETHING meaningful done!") is so damn convincing. I'm like a naughty manipulative child. With myself. Weird.
On a final note, I was super envious when I discovered a friend of mine in the Biola English program is like a totally successful poet now. She's doing it. Publishing books, reading for an audience at CityLights Bookstore, getting reviewed in magazines. It's amazing. She is a fantastic person and I'm excited for her. It was a bit of a reality check, though. Like, do you really want that? To be "Publishing books, reading for an audience at CityLights Bookstore, getting reviewed in magazines"? Then act like it, right?
Her website is http://www.katedurbin.com/. Mallie and Nicole, you guys knew her, and I think your sister might have, Erin. Anyway. Kinda inspiring and depressing all in the same breath.
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It took me a while to figure out you're still Tasha... I was like - who added?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this is my favorite review of Kate's book Ravenous Audience (just checked out the site):
"Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force."
--Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World in Light
I remember her! I love her costumes! You should definitely start dressing in costume if you want to be taken seriously as an author.
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