Writing accountability — took FOREVER to get going today, driving Kavi in because it’s so cold, then shoveling the sidewalk with Anand when I got back, then just restless and grumpy about needing to shovel. Finally wrote for 30 minutes, 509 words. Onwards.
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“…most animals aren’t very smart, you know, not the way humans think about smartness. They don’t need a lot of language for their lives. So you could talk to – “
“ – a koel?”
He nodded. “Yes, a koel. But if it’s a male koel, it’s mostly going to be saying ‘look at me, look at me, how handsome I am, don’t you want to come make babies with me?’ It’s hard to get much sense out of them.”
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Possibly a long day today — go to campus, finish class prep and teach, stay for job talk, school board phone meeting, grab something for dinner, and then if I have the energy, go to a writer meet-up for drinks up in Ravenswood. I like that kind of thing, but there’s a big part of me that says it’s winter, I should just crawl into my bed cave and hide whenever possible. Well, we’ll see.
(Pic: paperwhites unfurling)