asteroid B612

okay...after having pretty much a 14 hour work day, I'm going to leave. Going to the place where I'm staying and SLEEPING. I work better in the morning anyway. And now, for a few days, getting up early is a bonus rather than a necessity.

Anybody reading my blog will probably have the distinct feeling that they are sitting in the middle of the process of writing a paper. I now have over 500 words of an approximately 2000 word paper. This isn't the kind of paper where I just want to get through it so I'm checking the word count every other sentence. (which isn't all that helpful anyway...the watched pot never boils) I'm just so intrigued that I have been able to write that MUCH in such a short amount of time really.

okay...after perusing various links from a variety of blogs I'm just amazed at how small the world is. They weren't kidding when they called this the world wide web. Does everyone who reads Doug Wilson have to sign up on some sort of list so that you all know each other? (notice I use second person plural and not first person plural, because I most certainly do not read DW, the heretic).

I'm in love with my new blog. Because I'm staring at the computer screen trying to write, I think I'll come and write about trying to write at my lovely new blog. Right now I feel like one does upon getting a new blank book (or at least the way I feel when I get a new blank book). Like a fresh field waiting for the first cutting of the disc wherein the black loam is turned over and the way laid for the harvest to come.

I have just cranked out 357 words of my paper in the space of an hour. Does anyone realize how Herculean this is for me!? It is so hard for me to write each word. It is as if I had carefully chisel out every stinking letter that creates a word that creates a phrase that creates a sentence that creates a paragraph. As I wax eloquent here, it is hard to imagine the ardor I undergo (or go under in a dyslexic moment).

*poof. poof* That's me blowing the dust off my chisel, as I pick up my hammer to go back to the paper.

I want to go home.

I have noticed people will list what they are currently listening to. It's funny that I, the musicologist, hadn't even thought of what I'm listening right at the this moment. Me, whose life is surrounded by music. Chances are it's probably someone's rehearsal. The ubiquitous sound of practice inevitable when one is situated in a school of music. I most often hear the organ down the hall, the brass ensembles beneath me, the soprano across the hall, the children's songs wafting from music ed. offices scattered through my section of the hall, trumpet lessons across the hall...that's most likely what I'm currently listening to.

Oh yea. I forgot to mention. I had already been through two hot, caffeine-filled beverages by the time I actually taught at 8.30.

Now I must do my own work.

I'm staying in Baton Rouge to help me get work done this week. This morning I got up at the same time I always do, 5.30. I left the house where I'm staying by 6.30, the same time I always leave my house. But I arrived at school and was in my office by 7.00. Glorious! Instead of scooting in sometime around 8.15/8.30! I get up early every morning, and it doesn't pay off. I have to get up early just to be normal. If I lived here, my getting up would be a bonus.

But today I had to get here early because a prof called me last night to see if I could sub for her at 8.30 this morning. Of course, I had no materials with me. So I prepared and taught a lecture covering 19th c. piano music all by 9.30 this morning.

So...is it lunch time yet?

I had NO idea how to go about this Stravinsky paper until just a few moments ago. I just spent about an hour with my wonderful theory prof. talking about Strav and my paper, and the reason I couldn't find stuff about my topic was not because it was a dumb idea but because it is a "cutting edge" idea. So...here I dive...

Wow! This is great! I love this new blog software. I feel in business now!! Woohooo!
All this great stuff set up just when I need to be writing papers.
I'm having a hard time winding up the focus machine today. I HAVE to write these papers that aren't all that captivating. They're interesting, but don't drag me away from other distractions.

I'm very excited about my new blog.

Thanks, Nick!