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Chatty Adjunct, a thousand words
No writing yesterday but for some notes and now I’m here in the adjunct office… Saw something yesterday, a video by a guy I’m not so much a fan of but I certainly respect his entrepreneurial edginess....
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Actually Seeing
This morning, oddly rich purply-blue sky, weather on NPR saying possible thunderstorms and I’m not surprised. I had to rush myself out the door this morning and break the nostalgia of what today is, or...
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5/15–
Thinking of Wellness and the notion of practicing it from when I woke which wasn’t too long ago. Only act left to execute is dressing little Kerouac.. keep blogging, all day… Still not totally...
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5/18/15: Term’s End, Again
And what to do but to prep for the last early wakeup, at least for a 7AM 1A, that I’ll ever again hold or have to meet. Stressed again today about money and the teaching assignments but I put my mind...
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Today, wine. All of it. Wine.
Research tastings with a co-worker then the pouring at Honor Mansion to Mom and Dad’s and pairing that Pinot with mom’s crustless quiche. It was all about wine, and how wine finds food and the...
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(5/17/15:)
With this move, there’s always something to do, so I come home to an empty house, Alice and Jack at the store and I have to rush this session. I need a session unrushed, which I’ll get on Tuesday,...
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New Everything
Not five oclock but close enough.. 5:41, had a thought last night before falling asleep of beating Kerouac at his speed, writing a novel faster than he did. AND, with the end of this semester is the...
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comment
The adjunct thing, what kind of thing, a con a soap opera, a mess, an everything and a fruitless nothing pit at once. So I’m stopping. I’m teaching, is what I think, what I tell myself and how I’ll see...
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My mood, a mood, and
I think I’m of the character type that’s flawed. What if I go outside the expected with my aims, actions. When I came home today, Jackie played with our new neighbors, this one little girl, 4, driving...
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Voulez-Vous
1,000 words to novel this morning. Alice and little Kerouac are at her, Alice’s friend’s house for a morning workout and for Jack to play with their daughter on some incredible swingset. And I’m here...
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Clocking in only a couple, literally two,
minutes ahead of anything resembling a schedule. First topic of address: the young boy yesterday telling me how unhappy his dad is at work and how he’s searching for something else, “But, um, he’s...
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novel excerpt…..
Night before the Summer Session, my last at DVC before the Sonoma move, and I sit on the floor with a beer, just thinking about everything, and I know thinking too much. Posted to blog a bit ago, a...
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rest
Over 2100 words in novel, syllabi copied, and now I rest, but only for a small second of a bit. Have notes to take and I left one of my texts, Sedaris, at home. No matter, I can still very much...
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This Day, oh this day, this musical day..
went to Pride winery and was kept and transferred and pushed by everything I saw, heard, spoke about with the Pride pride… And now I’m here in the SRJC library more than prepared for my session– oh you...
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A Morning In Out (some of day’s 3 pages)
Finally find myself freewriting, writing freely, free in my morning writing, starting the types at 9:12– writing for clients later when in adjunct cell, and grading papers, meeting with students at 6;...
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I know I’m writing in too many places,
but it’s just my momentum at present. Just posted to teaching blog, and after this post I’ll be in the Comp Book. I will consolidate, simplify, don’t you worry. I should really be telling myself not...
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El Work (coffee talking)
Cup 2, earlier this morning. Waking this morning to be in the Kick Ranch vineyard, to shoot and blog and write about the pick– but no one there. Glenn held up at another site and me driving around...
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Wined Loved Easy’d
Now in the adjunct cell of Solano and I just can’t motivate myself as I’d want, realizing that now in this stage of my story I only want to be surrounded by wine and wine artifacts, scents, scenes and...
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note–
Adjuncts are always watching the clock. I’m watching it now. Till when I have to start class till when I can buzz back to Sonoma County. What wine do I get for tonight? Something to write about.....
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1yeaR
Looking for online sessions to teach, but I have to find campuses that offer such, in English— found a few, my alma.. Foothill, the San Jose spot, a couple more. Found my CV and Letter and other...
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