October 13, 2006

Music: Queen of the Damned soundtrack
Reading: Kerouac On the Road
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6

Good things that happened today:
1. Nice dinner out with Jason.
2. Haagen-Dazs ice cream.
3. Jason bought me root beer jelly beans! He had to bike like 15 minutes each way to get them and is the sweetest boyfriend EVAR.
4. Massively hot sexxors. Woot.

October 12, 2006

Music: Queen of the Damned soundtrack
Reading: Kerouac On the Road
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 10
Quote: "There was a time when I regarded every crackpot as sick, abnormal; but now I am of the opinion that it's the normal state of man – to be a crackpot." – Astrov, Uncle Vanya by Chekov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)

Good things that happened today:
1. Got some work done.
2. Lunch with Jason.
3. Discovered I don't have Saturday practice.
4. Got enough sleep!

October 11, 2006

Music: Queen of the Damned soundtrack
Reading: Kerouac On the Road
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7

Good things that happened today:
1. Took the last of my medication for my UTI!
2. Decent dinner. Good pasta with garlic/butter sauce.
3. Hung out with teh boyfriend.
4. Picked a paper topic. Now I just have to write the damn thing...
5. Ripped back in my knitting to the point where I finally fixed my mistake, and started knitting forward again!

October 10, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Kerouac On the Road
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7
Quote: "I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's not a question of old and new forms, but that one writes, without even thinking about forms, writes because it pours freely from the soul." – Treplev, The Sea Gull by Chekov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)

Good things that happened today:
1. Everything on today's To Do list is checked off!
2. Good evening fencing practice. I did really well.
3. Still enjoying On the Road.
4. Slept in a bit.

October 9, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Kerouac On the Road
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4
Quote: "Day and night I am haunted by one thought: I must write, I must write, I must. ...I have scarcely finished one novel when, for some reason, I have to write another, then a third, and after that a fourth. ...I write incessantly, at a furious rate, I can't work any other way. What is brilliant and beautiful about that, I ask you? Oh, what a preposterous life! Here I am talking to you, I'm excited, yet not for a moment do I forget that my unfinished novel is waiting for me. I see that cloud, it looks like a grand piano. I think: must remember to put into a story somewhere that a cloud floats by looking like a grand piano. There's a scent of heliotrope. I quickly make a mental note: cloying smell, widow's color, use when describing a summer evening. I catch up every word and phrase we utter, and lock them in my literary storeroom – they may be useful." – Trigorin, The Sea Gull by Chekov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)

Good things that happened today:
1. First meeting of Dickens reading group! Yay for tea and AWESOME gingersnaps and Dickens and Linda's OMGFREAKINGADORABLE new kitten!
2. Got a chunk of work done at the public service center.
3. Have done almost everything I wanted to do today (sans only one and a half things!).
4. Started reading On the Road and am quite enjoying it.

October 8, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Gospel of Mark, Euripides Medea
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7
Quote: "I am beginning to be amazed at the unfairness of people; why do they not respond to love with love, and why should truth be answered with lies?" – Anna Petrovna, Ivanov by Chekov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)

Good things that happened today:
1. Hung out with boyfriend.
2. Was fairly productive.
3. Got knitting group organized! Yaaaay!

October 7, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: reading for a seminar; Bultmann "Jesus Christ and Mythology," Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4
Quote: "Let the things that happen onstage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal at table, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up." – Chekov

Good things that happened today:
1. HOT sex.
2. Hot shower.
3. Hot boyfriend, cuddles with.
4. Got a fair amount of work done.