Sunday, February 10, 2008

stuff post

stuff i've been working on:
- i've been editing my novel and am finding it excruciatingly slow. after writing 50k in a month, slowing down is really difficult. but i guess i really love the premise and have a concept in my mind of where i want it to go, so that's why i'm hanging on and pushing on.
- i reconstructed a shirt that i absolutely love and am trying to progress into actually reconstructing all of the clothes that i never wear. my friend and i agreed to not buy any new clothes because the fact is, unless your clothes are shredded and falling apart, you never need to buy any clothes. you can just keep reconstructing them. and that, my friends, leads to the concept of reusing absolutely everything and never buying anything which is way to complex for my mind at this hour.
- i've been reading and analyzing literature a lot lately but more on that later.
- i've been thinking a lot about my future and what i'm actually going to do when i graduate from high school. i make plans with my friends and i dream up shit that i want to do, but now that it's this close, i need to figure what i'm ACTUALLY going to do, you know? if my grandfather follows through buying my a 1974 volkswagen hippie van, i'm going to try to travel south america with one of my friends, but who the hell knows.
- i'm trying to climb more often and actually went climbing one day at the gym instead of just saying i'm going to climb but not actually doing it. i really do love bouldering, but i'm lazy (and don't worry. i know that's no excuse.), but i need to get into the habit of going at least twice a week.
- i bought reusable pads. i've been wanting to do this for a while but never got around to it. i'm still waiting for them to be shipped, but i'm hoping they're awesome.

books i've been reading:
- the awakening by kate chopin
- dawn by elie weisel
- night by elie weisel
- tuesdays with morrie
- cunt by inga muscio
- trying to read the monkey wrench gang
- trying to read the revolution will not be microwaved
- NEED to read the alchemist by paolo coelho
- NEED to read drop city by t.c. boyle
- NEED to read a tale of love and darkness by amos oz
- NEED to read the little prince by antoine de st. exupery

things i've been thinking:
- people should turn off their fucking tvs and pick up a book. this society would be so much better off if we all sat around reading and discussing literature.
- the world needs public bicycles because cars are bullshit, no matter how much i like them and how convenient they are.
- how am i going to live without my friends for a month? (kate and kristen are going to thailand for their realms trip)

homework i need to finish tonight:
- creative writing story: need to write the last vignette and edit to make sure it doesn't sound like shit.
- english: burn powerpoint of van gogh and the awakening onto cd and print out.
- chemistry: study for the quiz and actually go in early tomorrow because you will fail it if you don't. and danya, you need good grades if you want to go someplace like evergreen for college. so try to get your chem. grade above a d.

yep. pretty much.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

sounds like you are having fun! by the way, i tried to read your novel but my computer wouldn't turn the file you emailed us into actual text :( i will try to figure out if i can find a different program to open it in or something.

James Gyre said...

hurrays!
danya posted again!

SOUNDS GREAT...

novel - same with laura, haven't been able to read it. i want to see how the novel we started together ends too..

clothes - word. i always whine about how the world need no new clothes (or computers or cars, etc...) it just needs to remix/sew/dye/patch/refit them, and re-distribute them.

literature - great literature can contain many different complex meanings to speak to different audiences, based on their understanding (sufis do that with their books too, as does the bible). that doesn't mean you can't analyze the DIFFERENT meanings... just don't be too sure you know THE meaning of a book, because there might not be just one.

future - come visit the gyres!!! and saba should buy you a volkswagen hippie van (but they are notoriously mechanically disadvantaged and fuel-inefficient (although the diesel ones can be converted into veggie oil)... get him to buy you a hybrid instead.

climbing - love it. used to do it every summer. yeah, get off yer duff and boulder, lady. the mind can't organize without physical challenges, the blood flows, the ideas flow, the hands grasps, the mind grasps.

pads - soft, old socks work, too, i hear.

books i've been reading - i've been working too much to read much, but i have been enjoying listening to podcasts/web radio. it helps me to hear people talk about intelligent things while i'm remodeling. i particularly have enjoyed democracy now! and the mysterious universe.

evergreen college sounds dope.

love you!

James Gyre said...

yeah, i heard the alchemist is supposed to be great from some people. it may just be another self-help/enlightenment/fluffy new age book like "the celestine prophecy", "ishmael" or "jonathon livingston seagull".

tell me what you think of it.