I love United States of Tara so much. But it makes me depressed because I can’t ever imagine writing it. But maybe this is because I enjoy it so much that I don’t want to do the hard work of breaking it down into structure and characters with voices. Maybe I could actually. Today was … Read more
Somehow, by mid-semester I always realize that I have a couple of classes that are awesome and that I would be happy devoting my life to, and then one ridiculously labor intensive class that makes me feel like A) my head is going to explode B) I am wasting valuable moments of my life C)I … Read more
Damnit Damnit fucking damnit.I think today was the last day to pay tuition and fees. Not that the university ever warns you in anyway. you’d think with all the propaganda they send, they might, until you think of how much money they make by charging the $100 late fee. So I hate the university, which … Read more
(Admittedly, I always do at the beginning of a semester.) My Screenwriting workshop, my non-fiction writing workshop, my fiction-writing workshop, and my grantwriting workshop are all excellent. So far there is just one problem: Two of these classes, the fiction and the non-fiction workshops, meet on the same night at the same time. Because of … Read more
For my new project of figuring out how and where to find money for Paul’s upcoming film I’ve been investigating classes at FSU. Last night I went to one called “Fundraising and Development” taught through the Public Administration Department. It was pretty interesting. One thing the instructor said that really caught my attention was this: … Read more
A few of my readers have mentioned that mostly they just skim my blog looking for posts about Paul’s burgeoning film career, so I thought I would put “film” in the title of this update just to make it easier. It’s been a busy and crazy week or so. The film from the clown shoot … Read more
But I’m pretty close now, just need a cover page. I added an illustration. Only me and maybe the three other people in the world who have read Book 4 of Gregory’s Dialogues in Old English will think this is funny, but I’m posting it anyway.
Old English.Still.I really thought that at 4pm, I would just take whatever I had over to the humanities department and turn it in. What really happened is that I DID stop translating (line 116), but still have hours of persnickety formatting, making of bibliographies, additional research etc. My new deadline is MIDNIGHT. That’s it. Then … Read more
How can it be this slow, you ask? Believe me I’m asking the same question.