To come up with a metaphor for each thing in a theater

 Some of the audience with their cell phones out are like June bugs I've already caught

Joan Foth

 How was I supposed to know that she lived across the street from me that she was a famous artist?

People you just don't know that you might think you know who they are but you don't know.

The saint

 Val Kilmer

He's hiding running from the past, does he truly care about Elizabeth's shoes character

He's posing as different people

He's realizing he can't do what he's hired to do

why these notes

 I will come back to grab all these notes when I sit down to write.

Remember: to keep track of the books I am reading, movies I watched, people I spoke to for each chapter. NOTES section. Even inspirations from what I read. etc.

People with ADHD have so many brilliant plans, but it is common not to complete them. 

It might be ADHD paralysis.

Exhaustion, lack of hyperfocus, lots of reasons to not finish. Not laziness, but burnout. or even worry to start.

We may have a history of not finishing which compounds into shame.

We ,might take a project on forgetting the work we already have.

 

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

 It's a funny thing that happened today. Louise sent an email noting how she might have lended someone the copy of her book Citizen and asked if anyone had a copy that she could borrow or return. I went in to place my copy into her box and found there was a copy already there. Then Melanie said yes I too try to put my copy in and noticed someone already had. I said yeah this is the fun thing that so many of us have a copy of this.

And I think New York Times recently said it was like the number one nonfiction book of the century so far. It's something to keep in mind if you're going to teach a nonfiction writing class. Maybe also not to discount this if you're writing your own memoir?

Note about my memoir

 Just a drop a few notes about what I would like to achieve

This won't be a memoir that seeks revenge on anyone. I've seen people advertently or inadvertently writing to somehow get back at someone and that will never work. 

This won't be a memoir that describes the trauma as much as it covers how going to the movies can be healing. In other words just like trauma-informed care, it helps those who have been traumatized but also benefits everyone. That going through trauma is in a deficit.

Wystan says put in a good word for me

I'm not going to cover everything. There are just some things that are best Kept Within a family or privately.

That's it this is not an autobiography. A Memoir takes selected things and make some mashup of how they are connected. Or that there's Simply Connected because you put them together.

I'll definitely be referencing the book body work because I like how she puts and changes things into different povs

why women's and gender studies

 I know with the current abolishment of DEI, it is difficult to explain to people why such a concept exists. It's not a concept, but a reality. 

Just like having ADHD, it both doesn't and does matter. 

The nuance to be able to accept something which seems a contradiction in terms means getting away from either/or logical fallacies.

the fact that I learned women's and gender studies first-hand before taking any class about it

 

pop-up poetry workshop

 Part of me would like to just rest and work on my book during the sabbatical, but the other part loves doing workshops--especially in differnet places one wouldn't find one. Without classes, this seems the perfect time to do it.

 

Plan to reach out to movie theaters and coffeehouses where there aren't theaters.