My new Year’s Resolutions:
I think there are ones I’m forgetting, will ammend when I recall them.
“That’s good thinkin’ that’s why I got through college in just 5 years.”
-Chelsea
I sat here at my dining room table for about 4 hours tonight writing review for the SFRA, they’d mostly been gestating in my brain for the last few weeks so writing wasn’t so much just editing and editing, something i usually hate. I’m glad to be done and I think they turned out well for the most part, though the review of Fringe lacked a little as far as it’s overall connectivity. At least I’m on time this time around. Even though I said it last time, I think I’ll try not to volunteer myself to write more of these for a while, maybe take an issue off? It will be a nice little run either way, since I’ve had 4 articles published across more than 1/2 a year and 3 consecutive issues. One of my new years resolutions is to publish 12 times this year, which is very ambitious of my, though here I am on January 1 with two things off to editors, so who knows?
Music: Mahler’s 6th Symphony
There are times when, completely unbidded, a work will simply spring right into the middle of my mind from it’s unplumbed depths. I always wonder where these words come from, why they’re occurred to me and if i can apply some psychological signifgance. Last week the word (there were others too but this one stuck.) was antediluvian. This morning it was Gallifrey. It’s great that for a few moments these words are just sounds, syllables. They’re stripped of any connections, they’re just a thing pointing to the possibility of meaning, if I can only remember what it is.
Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania…”
I am again trying to tackle the problem of long-dormant output online. This is something I’ve come back to over and over again through the last 4 or 5 years, every year or so, resetting things, learning some new software and eventually allowing my output to peter off into nothing again. I’ve spent too much time not writing about what I’m thinking about in an organized way. I hope that this new software, Drupal, can help me to do that. I seem to have built up a decent Taxonomy for organizing things in here that has the potential to sprawl out wonderfully when I get around to creating some content.
There are a few problems though:
1. the lack (that I’ve found so far at least) of an easily embedded mp3 streamer ala the Audio Player plugin in wordpress.
2. there appears not to be an easy way to post images to within written entities, short of manually ftping them into a directory and
3. My inherent lack of focus or time management skills, coupled with a lack of external motivation.
we’ll see how it goes. I think it’s time to head to sleep, there’s plenty of time to organize my both my room and my data-shadow over the weekend.
[imported from a Drupal install that lived as a blog for a moment before I migrated back to Wordpress.]