This weekend: busy. This week: cold. Snow is piled up on every available surface, and in defiance, we on the inside pile towels, scarves, hats, gloves, and pants onto radiators, pre-warming them for their coming performance. I’m working on several things, but all of them at the leisurely pace of the casual dilettante. Lipman confirmed for me that, at least if I’m anything like him (which I daresay), teaching in a university environment would be pretty ideal. He went on at charming length about how it’s an environment that encourages one to pursue one’s own projects. Perfect. He told me to stay in touch; I suppose I’ll send him some xmassy mail art.
Tonight, date night, we’re going to some sort of art/science colluded Cosmic Cartography Journey Through the Universe, some sort of “cosmic magical mystery tour from Chicago to the edge of the visible universe,” at the AIC. I nearly bought combat boots Monday but was perforce and thankfully forestalled. In the way that I formerly collected band/album titles, I’m now teaching myself to collect narrative arcs. I have a scene that I think could work just like DeLillo’s baseball game. It has to do with a recording session, not too surprisingly…?
It arrived last night, I’m guessing, though I didn’t find it until this morning. So far I totally love it, though as others have observed, it is taking some getting used to - typing on it, for example, is something of a challenge. Everything works, though, perfectly, right out of the box, inc’l wifi. More thoughts to come. Today was Anna’s family’s xmas party; it was very nice and I had a great time. We brought cheese soup and there was much merriment.