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gabriel
Love and ferrets and pretending to be a writer.

2003-06-08 8:30 AM
one hundred questions

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Reading: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Weather: Cloudy and cool, thank goodness. There was a heat wave this week, over 90 degrees every day. Now, I enjoy the good parts about every kind of weather, since there's nothing I can do about it anyway, but heat is hard on me, since I am too superior to sweat.
The ferret is: playing hide and seek with the dog (guess which one hides)

That class, the Barnes and Noble University one on Leonardo da Vinci, is kind of getting me down.

The boards are confusing, since most people don't post a subject, they just "re re" everyone else. There have got to be a couple hundred people in there. I can't make nonsense out of most of it. Some comments are to me, since I've posted a few, but they are not easy to spot in the melee. There is a button that allows you to see only the unread messages, and that's the one I click, since there are sixteen hundred bazillion messages up, but then, of course, I can't see the one's I've posted, so if someone uses a different subject line, I dunno who -- anyway. It's overwhelming. The work assigned int he book is interesting, but getting anything out of the huge volume of student comments would take up all the time allotted to the class, and I"d never have time to work through the book myself. Unless of course, I dropped out of going to work and other non-essential aspects of my life. Most of the posts aren't that great anyway. I wish I had an ego post detecting device, so I could skip the bragging posts, the ain't-I-modest ones and the "I agree with you absolutely" ones.

The first assignment in the book is to write one hundred questions. It's to be done in one sitting, and I dind't do it that way. I did some on each of four or five breaks at work, so I've defeated part of the purpose of the exercise. Okay. So then, after your questions are written, you are supposed to look them over carefully and pick out themes. Supposedly you might be surprosed about what you are wondering about. I wasn't terribly surprised, and I haven't examined the questions yet, just reflected briefly on them as I went about my business.

My hundred questions: I spend a lot of time wondering about animals and religion and food (I am working on using up a lot of my stored nutritional resources, and on not storing more) and my alleged book.

The largest number of questions I had are about my alleged book. Questions on the characters, the circumstances, the needed research, the magic, the plot, and questions on why the hell am I not writing the book? I am, instead of writing, screwing around taking this dorky class and reading only slightly relevant things on the 'net and... And. And I just need to sit my ass in this chair and use this super deluxe wonderful computer for what I said I wanted it for. Gregg would have protested putting it together for me had he thought that I'd mainly use it for messing around and playing games. Not that Grandfather, my favorite solitaire game, isn't edifying.

ANd I think I need to stop editing my journal posts. Most of my audience gets email from me and already knows I'm a crappy typist and likes me anyway.

So there. WHo gives a flip?

love,
KATHY

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