Holidays go by quickly, as if they don't want to hang around. My life seems to be happening at warp speed.
Lisa and I start our two-month summer fellowships tomorrow. It's hard to believe it's actually happening. Like most things in my life, this fellowship started as an obligation to my mom - shrouded in vague, emotional shadows - to perform the impossible.
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Your glosses on post-millennial slang are helpful, and they're giving me confidence that I can read the new generation's work. When I came across the word 'channel, ' I had a feel for it. I hazarded a guess that it meant something like PROPITIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. Your gloss proves I wasn't far wrong.
Sorry to say, my comments do not appear in the order I made them. Evidently those packets of data were routed in divergent ways on the Web, some more roundabout than others. They ran a race and arrived in a different order than when they started.
Yeah. I forget what I'm doing and hit return - but the allowed messages are pretty short anyway
Maybe 'idle' reading is undisciplined activity. But maybe it's also like a middle finger toward systems of hyper-discipline.. Maybe idle reading helps to keep the pour-able state in circulation. To contribute to such an entrancement would be no small thing.
hmm.. what? The idle rich are just thoughtlessly partying forever. How fun (NOT)
I suppose people since ancient times have been making themselves quasi-bionic with systems of hyper-discpline. But nowadays the professional careers have really upped the ante on that.
I read that someone, in the 1940s could go to college and with a masters degree know pretty much all there was in most disciplines. Today that's impossible..
I think it's intriguing that the hyper-disciplined state can alternate with the pour-able. There is an aesthetics of how things fade in and out.
Undisciplined readers don't know what such a firing process feels like. Meanwhile, telling about it would help the teller re-pour herself into undifferentiated form periodically. And the female voice, or any individual voice, probably benefits from challenges.
Do you mean what school is like - the actual learning? I think most people have been to school.
Clay gets kneaded and put in the kiln one way or another. Those in the fancy set, after a couple of twists, will find that commiting oneself to a pretzel shape is also strenuous. Materialism requires more material.
On the mild days it will be like a firing kiln, or else a drop forge. There will probably be a drill sergeant type. Worst of all, you may become your own drill sergeant. Will you hector yourself?
Even though it's doable, you're letting yourself in for a pretty formidable undertaking. All that knowledge you'll acquire will amplify your reach like a cyborg, maybe like a power-assisted exoskeleton. It's good to get a sense of who the undifferentiated you is, while you're still pourable.
Nice narrative. Enjoyed reading. Great language skill. Simple but effective