Out of the Wilderness
Okay, I am laying down and saying UNCLE.
UNCLE!
I'm excited to announce that I have finally BROKEN DOWN and will cease living an Internet guerilla existence as of this Friday afternoon. G. & I are leaving the wilderness at last and getting our own reliable service at home and I am so relieved by this. I liked not having it at home in any consistent way because it limited my use of it, but the volume of work both my employed kind and personal artistic kind has gone through the roof, and I haven't been able to keep up with the volume of e-mail and blogging. I might still have no Internet on weekends policy, but Monday-Friday I will be able to FINALLY stay up to speed.
Up until Thursday, I was getting up at 5:30 to work on (ahem) the book and other projects like my story for my writing group and my latest illustration for Skirt!, etc. until a bout of frantic insomnia-like nights have jack knifed my neat, but frantic speed. The 2 book deal and then Obama winning made me about as HYPER as a hypoglycemic kid on poprocks and Pepsi. I forget how (cough) sensitive I can be to stimulation and when I can't simmer down it becomes a problem. This probably sounds a bit ridiculous to many of you, but it's actually not an exaggeration. I get WIRED pretty easily. I've been over the moon for about a month now and I'd like to come down now. I've had to start making a rule that I will not work on my book in the afternoons or evenings, because I get so AMPED up. I went and saw the William Eggleston show at the Whitney on Saturday and it inspired me so much that I was STILL blooming with plans at 10:00 when it was time for bed. I like having ideas and big thoughts, but my brain can't turn off as of late and that is a problem. I'd like to get some sleep and not be awoken by something only to have a series of IDEAS and BIG THOUGHTS flash at me like billboards in Las Vegas. They are SO dazzling, but enough is enough.
So, you'll have to pardon me if it's a bit sparse around here for the next week. I am doing shit and trying to sleep. In the meantime, you should know I am reading Kurt Vonnegut and loving it. I saw Zack and Miri Make a Porno and all I can say is, yes they did. In the mornings I listen to Glenn Gould and he is what I like working to the most these days. I am thinking of Ariel on her writing retreat and wishing her well. I am wishing you well too. See you soon.
UNCLE!
I'm excited to announce that I have finally BROKEN DOWN and will cease living an Internet guerilla existence as of this Friday afternoon. G. & I are leaving the wilderness at last and getting our own reliable service at home and I am so relieved by this. I liked not having it at home in any consistent way because it limited my use of it, but the volume of work both my employed kind and personal artistic kind has gone through the roof, and I haven't been able to keep up with the volume of e-mail and blogging. I might still have no Internet on weekends policy, but Monday-Friday I will be able to FINALLY stay up to speed.
Up until Thursday, I was getting up at 5:30 to work on (ahem) the book and other projects like my story for my writing group and my latest illustration for Skirt!, etc. until a bout of frantic insomnia-like nights have jack knifed my neat, but frantic speed. The 2 book deal and then Obama winning made me about as HYPER as a hypoglycemic kid on poprocks and Pepsi. I forget how (cough) sensitive I can be to stimulation and when I can't simmer down it becomes a problem. This probably sounds a bit ridiculous to many of you, but it's actually not an exaggeration. I get WIRED pretty easily. I've been over the moon for about a month now and I'd like to come down now. I've had to start making a rule that I will not work on my book in the afternoons or evenings, because I get so AMPED up. I went and saw the William Eggleston show at the Whitney on Saturday and it inspired me so much that I was STILL blooming with plans at 10:00 when it was time for bed. I like having ideas and big thoughts, but my brain can't turn off as of late and that is a problem. I'd like to get some sleep and not be awoken by something only to have a series of IDEAS and BIG THOUGHTS flash at me like billboards in Las Vegas. They are SO dazzling, but enough is enough.
So, you'll have to pardon me if it's a bit sparse around here for the next week. I am doing shit and trying to sleep. In the meantime, you should know I am reading Kurt Vonnegut and loving it. I saw Zack and Miri Make a Porno and all I can say is, yes they did. In the mornings I listen to Glenn Gould and he is what I like working to the most these days. I am thinking of Ariel on her writing retreat and wishing her well. I am wishing you well too. See you soon.
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2:07 PM
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