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Sep. 26th, 2007 07:03 pmI keep fretting about what to write here. Do you want to know that I'm partway through two books for Aurealis? Or that I have a bunch of folks coming to lunch tomorrow and plan on feeding at least a couple of them bright pink mini eggplants? Do you want to hear about the posters my class made today? Or about the Mental Health Week exhibition that starts in just over a week?
The thing is that Conflux is coming and it's already started for some of us. Lots of emails about the Great Debate and what we're doing on various panels and whether we got into this workshop or that. Tomorrow I not only have my lunch, I have a friend coming to stay for Conflux and I have to prepare my workshop.
It was also the last day of term, so I'm torn betwen being hyper and being relaxed. One of my students suggested I be like this more often - it apparently makes for a fun class.
Our word of the day was 'idea' and I became deeply excited about the completely hypothetical nature of ideas, then what one did with a particular idea to turn it into a story. I'm still a bit bemused that my students found an extempore disquisition on the relationshiup between Greek philosophy and modern short stories so much fun. At least Conflux people are saved the disquisition (though not my overexitedness).
I think the truth of the matter is that I need a break. Tonight I shall finish those two Aurealis books (leaving me just one to read before I'm caught up) and watch some Buffy and sleep early. Tomorrow I shall offer a choice between pizza and a cheese platter (or both for the extraordinarily hungry) and just have a very laid back, informal kind of day. And by Friday morning I shall be compos mentis again and have totally fun teaching then learning about swords and then arguing in public fora. It's just a matter of replacing my current state of ditz and philosophy with a coherent state of being where bad jokes predominate.
My mind is confusing me tonight. I do hope it's not too obvious.
PS For everyone wondering about the banquet menu, there's an overview on my other blog and on Saturday night the full menu will appear. Next week come the recipes and then I get to move onto my next big project, about which you already know (but which I'll talk about here soon, cos it's also exciting).
The thing is that Conflux is coming and it's already started for some of us. Lots of emails about the Great Debate and what we're doing on various panels and whether we got into this workshop or that. Tomorrow I not only have my lunch, I have a friend coming to stay for Conflux and I have to prepare my workshop.
It was also the last day of term, so I'm torn betwen being hyper and being relaxed. One of my students suggested I be like this more often - it apparently makes for a fun class.
Our word of the day was 'idea' and I became deeply excited about the completely hypothetical nature of ideas, then what one did with a particular idea to turn it into a story. I'm still a bit bemused that my students found an extempore disquisition on the relationshiup between Greek philosophy and modern short stories so much fun. At least Conflux people are saved the disquisition (though not my overexitedness).
I think the truth of the matter is that I need a break. Tonight I shall finish those two Aurealis books (leaving me just one to read before I'm caught up) and watch some Buffy and sleep early. Tomorrow I shall offer a choice between pizza and a cheese platter (or both for the extraordinarily hungry) and just have a very laid back, informal kind of day. And by Friday morning I shall be compos mentis again and have totally fun teaching then learning about swords and then arguing in public fora. It's just a matter of replacing my current state of ditz and philosophy with a coherent state of being where bad jokes predominate.
My mind is confusing me tonight. I do hope it's not too obvious.
PS For everyone wondering about the banquet menu, there's an overview on my other blog and on Saturday night the full menu will appear. Next week come the recipes and then I get to move onto my next big project, about which you already know (but which I'll talk about here soon, cos it's also exciting).