THE DAY
Title says it all. So this will be short, but being ill does explain, a bit, why I was in such a black humor yesterday. Spent most of the night awake with a sore throat. Very tired this morning, though I managed to do a lot of housekeeping stuff and also read quite a bit.
Outline stuff was metza-metza. I’ve changed up a character in the Dead Mountain outline, which means more reading before I can reasonably write about her–which I both love and hate (love to learn, hate to spend time doing so). I am too impatient for my own good.
Anyway, managed to work, too, and the sf book outline took a weird and wholly unexpected (and good) turn.
In the middle of all this, the very sweet Chabadniks, with whom I was supposed to have dinner, sent over Jewish penicillin . . . er, chicken matzoh ball soup 🙂
A whole bunch flew across my radar today vis-a-vis politics and climate change today, too, but I’m too tired to really get into all of it. Suffice to say that I heard a fabulous bit on Science Friday about climate change: not the science part which we know but how teachers aren’t necessarily comfortable or conversant with the science–which is alarming–and how politicized the science has become as perceived by kids. That comes near the end, but the folks involved talked about trying to facilitate discussion in a classroom only to discover that kids had this perception that climate change was a “Democratic” issue and so not really science but . . . you know, knee-jerk liberalism. That was pretty interesting (and, sadly, seems to be born out whenever I get into a discussion with deniers).
But another caller–a teacher–talked about how difficult it is to teach the science, which he see as very grim and the future as being “charcoal and pitch,” while trying to find something to help kids feel as if there might be something they can actually do.
That reminds me, a lot, of Gore at the end of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH when he says that it’s very hard not to despair.
Looking around these days–at our planet, our country, people who say they’re leaders but want only to lead us back to the past–I think Gore was and is right.
If you’re interested, you can listen here.
Otherwise, it’s time for bed. I’m exhausted, and my throat’s killing me.
DEAD MOUNTAIN (placeholder title)
Day 1: 1500 (outline)
Day 2: 0 (outline)
Day 3: 0 (outline)
Day 4: 0 (outline)
Day 5: 0 (outline; soon, I swear, soon.)
UNTITLED SF BOOK
(Previously had 1500 in outline)
Day 1: 2400 (outline)
Day 2: 2400 (outline)
Day 3: 2000 (outline)
Blog Post: 473
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What I’m Watching:
Wisconsin squeak past Pittsburgh.
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What I’m Reading:
Some fascinating articles about Chinese girl prostitution on the Barbary Coast.
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What I’m Listening to:
Michigan pull it out against Duke.
