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come disconnect the dots
Jan. 16th, 2011 02:22 pmI was interviewed for an article about steampunk yesterday. I don't know where the article will be published--wait, it's in a school paper. Okay then. But I showed up at the steampunk bookstore in goggles and a dumb jacket and talked for about 20 minutes on how Victorian-inspired social events and speakeasy-type dance parties are good at getting nerds out of the house and how the aesthetic is the opposite of nostalgia--acknowledging that there was no Golden Age so that we are free to appropriate what we like about the past without having to pretend that the bad things were good too, or that they did not exist.
I've been working overtime at work so I am tired. Lately we've been getting $20-an-hour incentives plus time-and-a-half because the South has seen a great deal of snow, so we're getting a lot of calls from confused Southerners going, "What in the durn heck is all this white stuff fallin' from the sky?" But I am getting dough.
Also taking an Advanced Creative Writing class at the community college. I like it. This is what I wanted to go to grad school for, except that I don't have to pack up and move and spend thousands of dollars to get a collaborative and thoughtful classroom environment, I just have to spend $250 for three hours a week with other people from around the city. I've been working on poems again, and I just wrote one that I'm really nervous about bringing in because it's really personal. After that, I'm not sure. I'm a little worried about wasting the workshop time on bringing in stuff that I don't really care about, like this is my one last final chance to ever be in a workshop ever.
Man, I just looked at my LJ from when I was in college and I updated like three times a day back then instead of once a week. And half the entries are me going over what I'd been learning, usually abstract and lofty ideas, and connecting it to other things...right now what I'm posting about is mostly drive-by updates about shit I've done. I'm more comfortably social now and concentrating more on making my material life comfortable and efficient, putting my smaller observations and movements on Facebook where people who know me more in IRL can see.
I've been working overtime at work so I am tired. Lately we've been getting $20-an-hour incentives plus time-and-a-half because the South has seen a great deal of snow, so we're getting a lot of calls from confused Southerners going, "What in the durn heck is all this white stuff fallin' from the sky?" But I am getting dough.
Also taking an Advanced Creative Writing class at the community college. I like it. This is what I wanted to go to grad school for, except that I don't have to pack up and move and spend thousands of dollars to get a collaborative and thoughtful classroom environment, I just have to spend $250 for three hours a week with other people from around the city. I've been working on poems again, and I just wrote one that I'm really nervous about bringing in because it's really personal. After that, I'm not sure. I'm a little worried about wasting the workshop time on bringing in stuff that I don't really care about, like this is my one last final chance to ever be in a workshop ever.
Man, I just looked at my LJ from when I was in college and I updated like three times a day back then instead of once a week. And half the entries are me going over what I'd been learning, usually abstract and lofty ideas, and connecting it to other things...right now what I'm posting about is mostly drive-by updates about shit I've done. I'm more comfortably social now and concentrating more on making my material life comfortable and efficient, putting my smaller observations and movements on Facebook where people who know me more in IRL can see.