| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- free to be you and me In some ways i am feeling better about school this semester - even though it is an awful lot of work, taking 2 writing workshops is kind of brutal. But the writing seems to be happening and I've officially started work on my thesis which is both exhilarating and intimidating. Still, there are still things that sometimes bother me. But maybe I'm just close-minded. Maybe, but last night's workshopped story that was a 17 page (single-spaced) compilation of e-mails that stemmed from the workshopper's fake CraigsList post about his disabled cat was just too much. I mean, sure he really built a "character" with Susan as he wrote all these e-mails pretending to be her and responded to all the real replies. Sure, parts of it were funny. It certainly cracked him up as he read the whole damn thing aloud. Sure, most people in the class seemed to think it was great - you could do your entire thesis like this said the professor. Yeah, sure he could. I, for one, found it excrutiating. I know I'm not the only one. Was it just me, or was that really painful? one woman whispered to me as we left class. By page five I was just jabbing my pencil lead into my forehead she said. But then again, I - we - may just be close-minded. Arg. Anyway, this weekend I will work on my workshop submission (due next week) and doubtless there will be those who hate it and you know, whatever because this is an experimental fiction class and if I wanted to turn in a 17-page, single-spaced grocery list - I could. Heh. Who knows. Maybe I will. 12:41 pm - 02.26.04
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