I was out late this evening doing laundry, and now it is late and I am sweating. The weather outside is cool and humid, but inside it is just humid. This house really absorbs heat during the day.

Well Atom isn’t working today, so I’m back to Visual Studio Code. I need to just settle on one text editor and stick with it.

I started this file at about noon, but I haven’t begun to write until after 9:00 PM. I did mean to get to this sooner.

I don’t have a strong reason why I chose the title I did. I guess I thought it might be time for a little meta-commentary on the process of this so-called blog. It is a blog, that’s for sure, but its contents are nonsense to anyone but me. My purpose with t...

I went out to my car this morning and found that it had been booted for non-payment of fines. I knew I’d been on thin ice for a while. One of the other issues, aside from the $1500 in parking tickets I owe, is that I think the registration is lapsed due to ...

I went out early this morning to move my car. I had to park in a metered space last night because there was no space on my street. So this morning I had to move the car before I got a ticket.

I cleared a bunch of stuff off my desk this morning and it really does feel better. I think for a while now I’ve been avoiding the ever-growing pile to my left, adding to it bit by bit but still trying to ignore it. In any event, I don’t feel as confined wh...

headings still don’t work

let’s let it flow a bit today

weird news

I’m waiting for the kid to come home from her first day ate a new school. I think on days like this I may be more nervous than she is. One thing I know about Zanaya is that she is very sociable, much more so than me. If I could get through this kind of firs...

I swear, an hour into the exam and a student walked in. Before that, one student came in, looked at the exam, and then left. I think she’s been dropped from the class anyway, so I was confused to see her show up.

I don’t have anything to say. I now have a roomful of students taking their final exam in Modern American History, and they are very quiet.

My students are taking their final exam right now. Or, rather, some of my students are taking their final exam while most students haven’t arrived yet. In any event, I’m going to take their exam time to write, and hopefully I won’t be interrupted too often.

Ok, now 10 minutes of freewriting.

I am going to try out exactly 5 minutes of freewriting, so I have set a timer and I am typing away. I’m going to keep going until the timer goes off.

I thought I might write a little bit about the concept of looping. In my last post I wrote about the idea of looping from Clouse (2010), freewriting for a time, then freewriting some more based on one idea from the first freewriting session. Repeat this pat...

I found the book I was looking for, but I had mixed up the title. The book I was looking for is A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process by Barbara Fine Clouse (2010), not Writing Strategies. There is a separate book titled Research Strat...

Again this morning, an epic battle over the phone. This morning she was bawling out her mother for not giving her money. Swearing and all. What a fucking pain in the ass.

This is a test post to try to push my previous post.