O I didn’t know from liminal space. Truly.
While I wait for J’s job in New Haven to fall or come through, I rearrange the really important bits of my life, trinkets on a chest of drawers. I tweak and tweak and tweak my Tin House manuscript, I write the occasional email to friends I am trying to keep in spite of myself, I look in my planner at the block of days that constitute my Northwest journey, I send submissions to a smattering of publications, I halfheartedly research grad school programs. I journal on paper.
It doesn’t feel wrong, to have reduced my life to the lowest common denominator–the pets and the love and the words–but sometime soon I want to see some real growth, some palpable dynamism, a conviction that I am doing something, to offset all the going somewhere in my life.
While I wait:
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
The Model World, Michael Chabon
New York Magazine Jan-May 2008
NY Times Sunday Magazine (Particularly The Ethicist and The Way We Eat)
Vanity Fair August 2007-June 2008
Legitimate Dangers Anthology
Top Chef
Deadliest Catch
The Tudors
The L Word
Duotrope.com
the almost right word said,
June 6, 2008 at 7:41 pm
is ‘the l word’ still any good? last i saw, it was becoming more drama than anything else. i’ve been meaning to check out the latest season though….
and by the way…– the pets and love and the words — that don’t sound like no “lowest common denominator,” girl!
the unreliable narrator said,
June 14, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Was The L Word ever anything BUT drama? Mandarin and I always watch it together, and we’re so seldom in meat-space that we’ve only made it through the first three seasons. But I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Bette raping Tina….and of course the scene where Bette and Kit’s cranky da Ossie Davis passes away as they sing tearful hymns. Good times.
A personal trashy fave: http://www.thelword-downbelow.com/
[Aside: J. has always reminded me SO much of Shane that sometimes I couldn't even look at her without thinking terrible thoughts. Not just those thoughts along the line of, Oh my fucking GOD I'd better finish caps before she pops my head off like a grape. The other thoughts. You know.]
Doot-da-doo….so what did you think of Legitimate Dangers? I admired it and it annoyed me, both. Probably mostly of course because I’m not in it.
WHAT IS THE (L) WORD ON CT?!?!?!???
Aran said,
October 26, 2008 at 10:18 am
I know this feeling– I know it, I know it! Though I passed the time with surfthechannel.com, coffee, pseudo-respectable thrillers, and Italian grammar books….