i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
10:39 PM: write now, stairs later
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someone on craigslist wanted to start a weekly writing group based on the writings of the author of writing down the bones. when i went to norwescon, the poetry track sessions were also based on the same person, and sven had a similar writing group idea not too long ago, so we went to palio's, a dessert place in ladd's circle. three 10-minute writing exercises later, and we all went home with a plan to meet weekly, at least for a while. some of the exercises are by nature artificial, but i was surprised to find that even that small nudge was enough to generate new imagery and ideas.
trixie had a little hiccup driving there, though: suddenly she couldn't recognize the cd player. not the cd, but choosing the cd option for playback got me a repeated "the external device is not connected" error message. when we went home, however, she was fine, so it looks like i just had to reboot the car. :)
we told the landlord about the crooked stairs and he's sending the guy out again on saturday. why is he sending the same guy? sven says he sounds kinda irritated. i just don't want to lose the stairs, now that i've planted lettuces & cilantro in a little plot near there and now that i've raked a path between the studio & the house (i'll be putting bricks there!).