Hey, munchkins. Feeling a bit random today. I've been working since I
got up, but on such scattered things that it doesn't quite feel like I've
been working. I did manage to read two plays (Ariel Dorfman's "Death and
the Maiden" and Bernard Pomerance's "The Elephant Man", both good), Henry
James's short story, "The Pupil" (also good), and am now three chapters in
to De Silva's
A History of Sri Lanka. I'd be further in, but
I'm taking copious notes as I go; this is the first general history of Sri
Lanka that I've read -- it's all new to me, and it's going to be very
useful grounding for my stories. So I'm trying not to rush it. I would
post some of my notes here, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't make much
sense to you. I don't know if any of you are interested in Sri Lankan
history anyway. I didn't actually think I was -- I decided to do this
reading course out of a sense of duty, feeling that I needed the grounding
to do a good job with my fiction. But oddly enough, so far I'm actually
enjoying the reading. We'll see if that continues over the course of the
semester.
I've got about forty pages 'til the end of this section of the book. The
plan is to do that, and then decide what I want to do next. Now that my
CD-ROM drive is working again, I'm very tempted by Heroes of Might
and Magic III -- but I also have SH contracts to send out, and a
syllabus to prep. Those can both be done tomorrow morning, though. Life
is full of hard choices. :-)
Kinda sleepy, kinda unmotivated, but generally content. Not bad for a
Sunday afternoon.
