Seattle, at SALA 2020
Rahul K. Gairola at SALA, with lady with bow and arrow. 🙂 Seattle, and the most intense coffee shop I’ve ever seen. 🙂 View from the Nest, at Thompson Seattle.
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Exercise does often make me feel better
I was feeling SUPER STRESSED about deadlines, AND tired, but I put on gym clothes and went and worked out for 30 minutes, and you’d think that would make it worse, but I felt SO MUCH BETTER afterwards (the nice long hot shower helped too), and it really is going to take me a while
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Having a hard time focusing
I’m having a really hard time focusing right now. Part of that is tiredness; I managed to go back to sleep for a bit after my 5 a.m. phone call with Europe (for Plurality U folks, talking through board administration work; hoping they can find the budget to help me get to Amsterdam for the
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My gosh, they do feed us well here
At the commencement welcome, one of the conference chairs of SALA made a joke about how we’re going to talk well and eat well. I’m not sure I’m talking all that well (still tired and a little out of it!), but my gosh, they do feed us well here. Breakfast & lunch for two days
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How dedicated am I?
So here is the question — how dedicated am I? I slept poorly last night, and I attended 4 straight hours of readings this evening, from 7 – 11 (two different readings). All of which is fine, but I have a 5 a.m. call scheduled (with various international futurist folks; it’s not a great time
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A massive pile of logistical stuff
Okay. So I had a massive pile of logistical stuff to deal with, like contacting Elliott Bay and Hugo House and Book Larder and Capitol Cider here in Seattle, to see if I can stop by tomorrow and show them Feast and talk about ordering books / events, should I come back to Seattle soon.
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The opening to one of my poems
Funny moment at SALA — someone stopped me in the hall and said she liked the problem with going deep is that you can fall in. And I had this moment of bewilderment, because that sounded familiar, but I couldn’t remember why. And then she explained a little more, and I realized oh, right, that’s
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Funny travel / eating moment
Funny travel / eating moment. So yesterday, I was VERY tired, and I really just wanted some spicy Asian comfort food for dinner. Luckily, there was a Vietnamese restaurant with good reviews (Long Provincial) half a block away from my hotel. So I staggered in there, made it to a table, and ordered a dish
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Panel at MLA
This is the panel I’ll be on tomorrow evening at MLA, just fyi. “Sri Lankan American Women and Non-binary Writers: Contemporary Investments and Future Directions” THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY, 7.00 PM-8.15 PM, SKAGIT 4 (Washington State Convention Center) While examining investments in human rights, transgenerational memory, and alternative forms of justice, panelists investigate the current trends
Plenty to get through today
Well, I didn’t get everything done I hoped to yesterday; in particular, I still have a few hours of work left on my story revision for George. But in my defense, my pantry is now gloriously organized….um, I feel like Virginia Woolf is glaring at me right now. Discovered a great life hack, though —
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