contagion, or, view art for free!

hey seattleites--
my roommate Anne is curating a multi-media art exhibit called "contagion" that is opening this wednesday, august 30th, from 7-10pm. admission is free for the art opening, and there will be music by DJ Marshall Watson. it's for WET, the washington ensemble theatre--at the little theatre, 608 19th ave E (at mercer).

the gallery exhibit is paired with, and shares its theme with, "the museum play," (written by jordan harrison, directed by marya sea kaminski), which will be showing thursday through monday at 8pm, 9/1-9/25. tickets are $10-18; purchase them through brownpapertickets.com.

so the art exhibit opens wednesday, and the play opens thursday.

more info: www.washingtonensemble.org

come check it out! support my roomie!

LJ usage poll

my friend boutell posted an interesting quiz in his LJ. link to it
HERE.

the procrastination monster is eating my day...gotta go redeem myself now...

weekly what?

in a comment to the illustrious boutell, i contemplated "stealing" his weekly blog feature idea. he writes a sonnet every monday, and calls it Monday Fourteen. i'm not quite so poetically inclined, but i am *very* impressed by how many sonnets he has written...one per week...it adds up into an impressive amount of writing. that is to say nothing of the impressive number he produced during the blog-a-thon, when he wrote 48 sonnets in 24 hours, to benefit Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders). i want to be like boutell!

my own current writing problem, for which accumulating "an impressive amount of writing" would be most helpful, is this pesky dissertation i need to write. it is a problem for me for two reasons:

( read lengthy explanation )

so anyway, i was thinking i might write a weekly cultural criticism piece, either about a news article from the previous week, or about a book i'm reading or a film i have seen. alternatively, i might try to boil down some piece of scholarship i'm working with into its key concepts and main points, and to put it into "everyday" language. (sorry if that sounds condescending--i don't mean it that way, but i recognize that making linguistic distinctions between specialized and everyday discourse is dicey.) most of this stuff will be at least related to my dissertation, but it won't be dissertation writing per se...because that would be boring! :-) but the goal is to get me writing, and the hope is that once i start writing *this* thing, it won't be such a big deal to start writing *that* thing; and maybe writing *this* thing will even jump start the writing of *that* thing. then i can sit back and reap the benefits of accumulated written product (AWP). and maybe graduate someday.

what do you think? would you read it? would you find it interesting? i would, of course, use lj-cuts (i know how...see above...) to avoid overloading everyones' friends pages...

menstrual TMI, part 2

ok, so i bought a schmancy device to use for my period. it has an unfortunate name: the diva cup. it's basically a keeper, only made from silicone instead of gum rubber (i.e. latex). my decision was totally based on expedience. i was shopping at the PCC and they were selling the diva cup; as far as i know, the only way to obtain a keeper is by mail ordering it. i went for the instant gratification.

( the verdict--not for the squeamish )