I am simply busy in a busy-busy way.
I am getting voice-to-text writing in as ideas come to me. I am so thankful for Google Docs and voice-to-text.
I also want to include, I want to write a "what does success look like in the classroom?" article to help combat texting in class, ChatGPT and so on.
It's wonderful to think that when we align our thoughts into working on a project we are passionate about, we can see how we find things in our everyday engagements to lead into writing.
I think of that Oprah Winfrey episode still, that when you have positive thoughts, you see the positive in everything. Also the opposite, via negative thoughts.
I think it's just wonderful that I'm in this deep meditation about the healing power of movies as well as the need for them. Having the chance to teach the tx200 class is furthering this concentration.
I'm using Google Docs a lot for just writing down ideas or outlines for writing. And even as I post this I'm doing it voice to text.
I'm also realizing I need to return so many library books back. I put a post up on Facebook with my 14 books that I need to return because I'm just not going to have the time to concentrate on them. However it's kind of nice to think about I have these resources I can turn back to and I just have to look at what I've checked out before to find them.
We're also canceling some of the events. Wednesday really set me back because it was that all day field trip and then I realized I felt behind.
But I'm just blocking weekends off for not doing any work. Setting those good boundaries. Plus the Royals even though they lost the first game in the ALDS playoff against the Yankees, they were definitely competitive and the game went back and forth which made it really enjoyable.
The article about the need for the trickster how the trickster is portrayed in films as a way of modern mythology
The mental romcoms list of films
To wrap up the Matrix article
To lay out the possible chapters of the book
To list the books I'd like to use like art of memoir, girls on film, midnight fuel, and women and other monsters
I know that the one thing I will need to keep in mind when I'm sitting down to writing is to have those books that I admire and can borrow from for my own approaches. I'm talking about women and other monsters, midnight fuel, and now this book Girls on Film lessons from a life of watching women in movies by Alicia Malone. What an amazing way to weave movies into her memoir.
On top of this I know that the academic kind of stuff that I want to interweave needs to be done in this tradition. That I'll need to just weave in the things about such a movie like xanadu. Already I am Vision the book for starting with the trailer but I'm sure in journaling about. Then although I definitely will travel through time throughout my book, I will need to Center on what would the most influential movie be. I'll need to call out the point that it's important for me to talk about gender studies and women's studies, that one movie which would be the mark of the most horrible of all films that even the razzies started, which would be Xanadu, was really at a crucial point in my life that I needed movies to save me.
Page 94 of Girls on Film would be a good way for me to write about Santa do, the culmination of what I could be, even the queer nods of the women who were more than sisters through their dancing, the lesbian call by Andre Lorde to claim and reclaim the body.
I'm at that point where I also need to carry around my rose quartz crystal again, as I see the trees and I'm so excited about the Autumn weather. I'm also excited about the prospect of finally getting this disc healed that's causing my limp leg.
Add Paisley Rekdal's The Broken Country!
I love that we had Autumn weather on the first day of autumn, but this really shows me to how September becomes a blur toward the end. There was just so much work.
I guess this is the argument for why sabbatical should just be given. We are going to use the time to develop our scholarly work in a way that we couldn't win we are teaching classes.
It would be hard to explain to someone who's a blue collar worker why this work can be exhausting. I know because I come from a family of blue collar workers. Their work was equally exhausting, in the study teaching life doesn't seem like it would be the same kind of work. It isn't!
It really is the anxieties and stresses of trying to avoid burnout, as well as how taxing it might be if a student plays Rises or continues to disrupt class, that we have to put extra energy and our minds are filled with those kind of things instead of just being able to cut off from the school and enjoy some time at home.
And what I mean by enjoy time at home, be able to do the things necessary at home too!
Okay I'm going to stop this and just say I finished another essay about the Matrix that I should polish. I like how these different things about the Matrix are turning out.
Wystan is getting into Queen's soundtrack to Highlander, so we will watch that soon, speeding forward through the sex scene.
