April 28th, 2006 |
I’m resenting work so much right now. Not so much my actual work, but just the fact of work. There’s always a low level of job-related discontent bubbling within me, but knowing that I’m going back to school this fall is making it exponentially worse. Especially now that I’ve got my class schedule set and [...]
April 25th, 2006 |
Italo Calvino - If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler:
I’m producing too many stories at once because what I want is for you to feel, around the story, a saturation of other stories that I could tell and maybe will tell or who knows may already have told on some other occasion, a space full [...]
April 18th, 2006 |
American Idol was made for me tonight. I love the classics, yes I do. And this group seems amazingly adept at them. Even Chris did a fine job with “What a Wonderful World” (one of my favorite songs)…I was concerned about his being able to find a song that fit him.
But I am having so [...]
April 11th, 2006 |
Movie recommendation:
Sophie Scholl: The Last Days
My parents and I went to see this last Saturday, and we all came away very impressed. Sophie Scholl was a 21-year-old student in Munich in the early 1940s, and she and her brother were arrested in 1943 for distributing leaflets that detailed the failure of the Nazi army on [...]