Jinrikisha
A little late for my personal clock-in target, 9AM, time now shouting outtime 9:10. Have to take care into car wash, write short piece and blog entire day. Haven’t even looked at the papers.. but I...
View ArticlePapers Ahead…..
And I’m here in the nook hiding behind my entry. But not so. I’ll get in there eventually I just need to keep the jazz playing and the coffee in cup.. this morning’s coffee, from the shop down the...
View ArticleVintaged Mood Mud
Clocking in late, 9:51.. rough morning with little Kerouac and his unwillingness to go to school, get ready, just being defiant to I believe see how I’d react.. but I’m here now with my head in a...
View Articlejournal, 4/15/15
Morning starting eventfully, Jackie calling for me and we going to his appointment, to look at some dimensions of his dialogue, Alice and I feeling quite confirmed in hat we already knew.. no problems,...
View ArticleBack from liquor store where
Flowering at Arista Winery, Russian River Valley, Harper’s Rest Vineyard I bought not liquor but a sparkling lime– I mean lemon water. Not sure what I have to do, what’s on the to-do list, what’s left...
View ArticleGauche
The adjunct gets out of his car into the light drizzle, reaches into the car for bag, grab coffee, up stairs. To shared office. Now what. Prep. But he’s too tired. He just wants to sip his coffee...
View ArticleIn Adjunct Office
And tired. No mood for anything, even with the coffee posing its puissance.. After 1A go to bank, then to home, and after 1B work around condo.. nothing Literary about the day, or that I can see so...
View ArticleActually Seeing
This morning, oddly rich purply-blue sky, weather on NPR saying possible thunderstorms and I’m not surprised. I had to rush myself out the door this morning and break the nostalgia of what today is, or...
View ArticleLast morning, reg instruction.
Wanted to start writing at 6AM or before but now the clock taunts 6:04 and I regret pulling into the drivethrough line, stuck behind that bitch in the Benz ordering however many drinks she did and...
View ArticleFinished a rough rough draft
of the MOCK SOMM article, now I have to get ready for a day in the tasting room.. will write the outlines for the winecountry.com pieces at work.. or at least points, very broad points.. Research on...
View ArticleAdjuncted Adaptively-esque
Writing freely. No particular address from this mood and where this mood came from, who knows.. in old neighborhood Starbucks and thinking about everything from the condo we can’t be rid of soon...
View ArticleThe library. Part of
me of course wanted to just fly there as soon as I touched down on campus, just before 4:30, but I needed the quiet of this adjunct hole. Yes that’s ironic I guess in someway, me resisting the...
View ArticleMorning Mood, a move
11AM and I start with my day’s drops, driving over here in rain if you could call it rain, but not like the weather people called for. They predict storms or they put the anticipation fire on...
View Article30
Finished thousand word article. Didn’t go back to campus after bringing SS card to Sanglier office. Came here to Hopper sbux, enjoying jazz and I think a tutor’s lecture to his young JC clients....
View Article40
More poetry. More music, more pieces meant for reading. Meeting with classes in three days. Read something to them. Show them you’re a writer. More than a “teacher”. Had quite a bit of the Selby...
View ArticleDébut de mon Scène
Finished a short piece for the first issue of Mise, in ten minutes. A writing exercise, timed as I have the students do. Now here at the Vine Street sbux, I type and notice that the crowd is thin,...
View Articlefreewrite, 2/26/16
The wines, still haunting me from last night. That Chardonnay… I bought it where I now write, Oakville.. mom seemed to like it, maybe I should get another bottle. Why not? May need it tonight if...
View ArticleTasting Room Notes (3/10/16)
The rain falls harder than I’ve seen it so in who knows how long. And in this room off the Healdsburg Square, I’m assured a total traffic drought. No influx or downpour of people looking for wine...
View ArticleIf I’ve ever been in a
mood, it’s this night. After this day. Which is strange as the 12th started rough but then later softened and smoothed to my favor, then again plunged. Reminding me of my age and what I’ve done, my...
View ArticleI need to breathe sometimes.
That’s it. That’s what “mediation” is to me. Collection. Regrouping. And this morning I do so early, with my son waking me up, ordering me to come downstairs with him and watch cartoons. He...
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