I was listening to Jah Wobble’s album of William Blake-inspired music, which starts with this track: Doing a little more investigation, I found a neat interview with Wobble from around the time he put that out. He talks a lot about the struggle to balance anger and integrity with the mental, emotional refreshment and grounding that one needs in order to be creative: He’s right: a certain degree of anger and honesty is energizing, but too much of it will just embitter you, and I know I’m certainly on the unbalanced side of it — and I know how it …
Month: December 2010
The Year in Review
I don’t think I have the strength to write a whole year in review, because I ended up staying up all night to finalize my grading, and then waking up early because I hadn’t heard back from the office assistant I emailed the gradesheets to (for system entry). I’ll give it a stab, though. Let’s see:
A Merry Midwinter To You…
Yeah, yeah, I actually call it Xmas when I am talking aloud, but it’s the principle of the thing. In any case, I hope your holiday is going nicely, dear reader–or, since it’s likely you’ll read this later, then I hope it went nicely. Rest assured mine is, has been, will continue to be, some last-minute grading aside. You heard me right. Last-minute grading. And there’s more left, but that’s not for now. Be warm, be happy, be wonderful.
Not Quite Sourdough, But It Rose
I made some bread today, my 2nd try at making bread with Brettanomyces Claussenii yeast. Brett C. is, as you may know, a strain of wild yeast of the kind used in some kinds of brewing, and I brewed a beer using it as my sole yeast back in late October of this year. (It’s been in the bottle a week and I plan on testing out a small bottle this afternoon, to see if the carbonation is where I’d like it to be.) Anyway, I saw that The Mad Fermentationist had made some baguettes with a strain of Brett, …
Many Stories on the Go…
I have so many stories on the go, now, mostly because I got most of my grading done in a flurry of activity and all that’s really left is for me to: read the final “stories” (or poems) submitted for my Creative Writing class, sort out the attendance records (a bunch of attendance records are in sign-up sheet form, for group discussions where one of my classes was split in half and attendance-taking would have wasted precious classtime, decide on and finalize participation/attitude grades, review my Public Speaking students final self-evaluations, which are due on Sunday by email, input everything …