Retro: Truman Capote Writes - Google Video

Retro: Truman Capote Writes - Google Video

Watched Capote last night for the first time. This is a very interesting interview with Truman Capote from 1966.

Very awesome!

rationale

Update as of 3pm: I have received my final approval from C. Lane. It was terrible that his was the one I had to wait the longest for. But it finally came!

I just sent off the final draft of my rationale to my advisors. I finally had to just hold my breath and punch send. Then I did something that I always think will prove to be more gratifying than it is. I added up the "editing time" recorded by Word for each of my drafts. The total, once divided by 60, was 13 hours. Like I said, I always expect that the resulting number will actually be able to quantify what feels like an enormous amount of time and energy put into this document. But 13 hours? That just doesn't seem that impressive does it? Well, maybe Word is lying to me.

wi-fi bandit

So, I come to Starbucks ever so often when I really need to get work done. It is like my psychological WarCabinet room, where my impulses go underground and shit gets done. Needless to say, that with my rationale due tomorrow, I've been here the last two days. Also contributing to this is that I refuse to go to the same coffee shop twice in a day. Don't ask why. In any case, I'm not getting much done because I realized that I could steal wi-fi from Cafe Express just half way down the block. Granted the signal is very spotty but I feel so dirty doing it. The good kind of dirty that is!

fun signs

fanfic update

I recently posted an update to my Harry Potter fanfiction. In other news, I am struggling with rewrites of my rationale that is due in a week. For some reason my thoughts feel like a bog that I want to avoid at all costs. The whole thing is making me feel quite dejected.

"Casting his shadow, weaving his spell"

Ever since I first saw Man Ray's photos of wooden artist dolls, I've been kind of obsessed with them. In high school, I purchased one and it has been a fixture of my domicile since. But I have always wanted to dress it, particularly as a monk or wizard. So at last my vision has been fulfilled with the help of my wife and our crappy little sewing machine. Here are last is my wizard/monk/jedi knight/what-have-you. Oh, and the quote from the title is from the excellent Black Sabbath song, aptly titled, "The Wizard."