I have to write 50 pages by next Friday.
One week, exactly. So what did I do? I went out and bought two more books, both by Hakim Bey: T.A.Z. and Immediatism. Both of which, obviously, are available online. And both of which I have pretended to have read for many years, which I have counted as major philosophical influences for many years. Ha!
So I've got about seven books going at the moment. It's pretty awesome. Other than the ones in my last blog entry, I've also pulled Frank Owen's Clubland down off the shelf, along with some Zapatista pamphlets and this book, which Tish gave me, about clowns in the USSR.
Tomorrow I head out to Yosemite for the weekend. I've been coerced into chaperoning a retreat for LA gang members. I prolly shouldn't call 'em that. They're kids.
But I've been promised a great deal of free time to focus on my work, a place to stay in some of the most beautiful country, and three squares, so I'm not complaining. And I will totally be out of reach to the outside world. Can't wait! (Although I think this is not the one that we go river rafting on...that's the one in July.)
In other news, I think I'm going to the US Social Forum in Atlanta at the end of June.
One week, exactly. So what did I do? I went out and bought two more books, both by Hakim Bey: T.A.Z. and Immediatism. Both of which, obviously, are available online. And both of which I have pretended to have read for many years, which I have counted as major philosophical influences for many years. Ha!
So I've got about seven books going at the moment. It's pretty awesome. Other than the ones in my last blog entry, I've also pulled Frank Owen's Clubland down off the shelf, along with some Zapatista pamphlets and this book, which Tish gave me, about clowns in the USSR.
Tomorrow I head out to Yosemite for the weekend. I've been coerced into chaperoning a retreat for LA gang members. I prolly shouldn't call 'em that. They're kids.
But I've been promised a great deal of free time to focus on my work, a place to stay in some of the most beautiful country, and three squares, so I'm not complaining. And I will totally be out of reach to the outside world. Can't wait! (Although I think this is not the one that we go river rafting on...that's the one in July.)
In other news, I think I'm going to the US Social Forum in Atlanta at the end of June.
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signalnoise:
Thanks for the link - I'm gonna check it out.
adjunct:
Did the 50 pages work out? I did 29 in a couple of days at the end of the fall semester, and probably another thirty or so of code in a few days for the spring semester. It's not so much 'procrastinating' as 'highly compressed', right?