What Friday?
I don’t feel like today really happened. You know? Do you ever have one of those days where you just drift along and get towards the end and feel like something went missing? That’s kind of how I felt today. I think it probably had something to do with sleeping in much too late, but I’m trying very hard not to feel guilty about that. My throat feels more normal and I have a sneaky suspicion that the sleep played a part in that.
I’ve descended to bribing my work ethic with rewards. Plan for tonight is to finish a chapter on child rights theatre and read half of “Woza Albert”. If I finish those two things, then I get to watch an episode of “The L Word”. Pitiful, huh?
At least I’m feeling a little less panicked about applying for grants. I sat down today and roughed out the next six months in terms of how much money I have, how much I’ll receive, and how much I’ll be parting with. Surprisingly, it looks like I can probably swing everything without cutting things too close. I’ll still look for grants because the more money I have coming out of UEA, the better. Still, it’s nice to know that everything I want to happen will happen whether I get a grant or not.
Placements are starting to look promising. I got a really prompt reply from one group asking for more information and saying they would consider my proposal. Tentative yay for that. I’m still waiting to hear from the Ladakh group, but they did warn that e-mails may take a week or two to reply to. I’ll probably try to sit down tomorrow and write another contact letter for another Indian group.
This is spectacularly off-topic, but we haven’t had any more submissions in the quotes game thingy. I’ll go ahead and respond to Joelle since no one else is offering anything. Here is the current set if anyone feels like adding something (hint, hint):
Kathryn's post:
Every 200,000 years or so, the individual stars within each constellation shift position. That is, they are shifting all the time, but more subtly than any tracker dog of ours can follow. One day, if the earth has not voluntarily opted out of the solar system we will wake up to a new heaven whose dome will again confound us. It will still be home but not a place to take for granted.
- "Orion" by Jeanette Winterson
Joelle's response:
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes -- do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Kathryn’s response:
There's the wind
And the rain
And the mercy of the fallen
Who say they have no claim
To know what's right
There's the weak
And the strong
And the beds that have no answers
And that's where I may rest my head tonight
- Lyrics from “Mercy of the Fallen” by Dar Williams
I’ve descended to bribing my work ethic with rewards. Plan for tonight is to finish a chapter on child rights theatre and read half of “Woza Albert”. If I finish those two things, then I get to watch an episode of “The L Word”. Pitiful, huh?
At least I’m feeling a little less panicked about applying for grants. I sat down today and roughed out the next six months in terms of how much money I have, how much I’ll receive, and how much I’ll be parting with. Surprisingly, it looks like I can probably swing everything without cutting things too close. I’ll still look for grants because the more money I have coming out of UEA, the better. Still, it’s nice to know that everything I want to happen will happen whether I get a grant or not.
Placements are starting to look promising. I got a really prompt reply from one group asking for more information and saying they would consider my proposal. Tentative yay for that. I’m still waiting to hear from the Ladakh group, but they did warn that e-mails may take a week or two to reply to. I’ll probably try to sit down tomorrow and write another contact letter for another Indian group.
This is spectacularly off-topic, but we haven’t had any more submissions in the quotes game thingy. I’ll go ahead and respond to Joelle since no one else is offering anything. Here is the current set if anyone feels like adding something (hint, hint):
Kathryn's post:
Every 200,000 years or so, the individual stars within each constellation shift position. That is, they are shifting all the time, but more subtly than any tracker dog of ours can follow. One day, if the earth has not voluntarily opted out of the solar system we will wake up to a new heaven whose dome will again confound us. It will still be home but not a place to take for granted.
- "Orion" by Jeanette Winterson
Joelle's response:
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes -- do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Kathryn’s response:
There's the wind
And the rain
And the mercy of the fallen
Who say they have no claim
To know what's right
There's the weak
And the strong
And the beds that have no answers
And that's where I may rest my head tonight
- Lyrics from “Mercy of the Fallen” by Dar Williams