Today was one of those writing days where I hit the ground running. It started off productive (2ish pages) then the reivsing began and I realized that I skip a lot of words when I write. A lot. I don’t think this flaw is because I think too fast for my fingers to type (although I wish that were the case). As a result, revising always takes much longer because it’s like a giant dissertation mad lib: What was I trying to say there? What word is missing? What is the best transition I can use? What exactly was I trying to emphasize again? Maybe it’s better that way–do I subconsciously leave words out to make me think through ideas more thoroughly? Yeah, that’s it.
In last week’s EW column, Diablo Cody reminded all of you out there who actually like summer that, well, there are some of us who don’t. I’m one of them. She remembers sitting inside as a kid during her entire summer vacation writing book reports. Then I realized that I’m still that kid but instead of writing book reports it’s the diss this time around. I have to say, a few months in and I’d take this diss writing any day over a pool. (But I dislike water sports, so maybe that’s a bit unfair.) Anyway, Diablo Cody, you’re my new summertime hero.
I’ll miss you, Sheed.
From Dunne’s Back to the Rough Ground:
If the ethical life which is taken up with these human affairs now appears, by contrast with the godly life of theory, almost as a cavelike mode of existence, then one begins to ask whether phronesis, for all its suppleness and flair, does not appear, from the vantage point of theory, much as a dog’s great sensitivity in smelling and sniffing might appear from the vantage point of phrnesis itself (240).
So, over the blogging years I’ve made it a habit, albeit cheesy, to create bday lists. This year, the only thing I want is to not turn 29. Everyone keeps telling me I’ll be okay, but ugh. 29. And the same everyone that keeps telling me I’ll make it out okay also tell me that 29 is much more painful than 30. Like that helps. Anyway, if there’s anyway you can figure out by tomorrow how to avoid aging one more year, please please let me know…
an interesting blog with links for writing.
I decided to read one essay each evening from Lost and Philosophy (I picked up this book well over a year ago and finally deicided to slog through it)–that is until I read this:
“In contrast to these action-based moral theories is a moral theory dating back to Aristotle (384-322 BCE) which places emphasis on the soul/psyche/mind/disposition/character (for our purposes these all mean the same thing, but we’ll continue to use the word character) from which the moral action stems” (Arp and Brace 34).
Huh wha? You’re actually saying that all FIVE of those terms mean the same thing?? I think I’m done with the book now…
Yes! How’s that for some Dharma Karma 
And remember that they found a Workerman in the van earlier in the show? Thank you Lost writers for finally listening.
Since fpotw has resurfaced, I guess it’s only fair to play once again. And in honor of my recent dabbling in Twitter, here’s a lil something from Gorgias
SOCRATES: Just what is needed, Gorgias. Give me a demonstration of your talent for brevity and let the opposite wait for another occasion.
GORGIAS: Very well; I’ll force you to admit that you have never heard anyone more concise.
S: Come then: you say that you understand the art of oratory and can make orators of others. What is the object with which oratory is concerned? Weaving for example is concerned with the production of clothes, is it not?
G: Yes.
S: And music with the creation of melodies?
G: Yes.
S: My word, Gorgias, your answers are an absolute miracle of brevity, I must say.
G: Yes, I think I’m pretty good at brevity, Socrates.
