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My brain is full . . .
Jul. 18th, 2005 08:56 pmWhere to start?
Today was the first of 10 class days for my teachers-as-writers fellowship at the Boston Athenaeum. We''re getting 50 clock-hours of instruction from a writing professor from UMass-Boston. It's basically a writing workshop.
I have hacked around with ideas for a book for a long time now, and after today, I am giant steps closer to having a real clue. I am going to write a book on community service and student volunteerism -- part handbook, part analysis of how and why students do community service. It will have some controversy in it because I am looking at the idea of mandatory community service required for graduation. There have been court cases and protests over that topic already.
There are 14 other people taking part, and they range from preschool folks to community college folks, and they are all looking at very cool writing projects, too.
The Athenaeum is an amazing, 200-year-old private library, across the street from the statehouse. The windows in the back overlook the Old Granary Burying Yard, so it's got a great view, and inside it is very tut-tut old money. Our classes are in the board of directors room, which also includes books from George Washington's library and a lot of portraits of old, dead people. Our instructor said not to be effected by the room, and I offered to bring in a Belushi poster.
Of course, I started the fellowship after a weekend at GNEW, and I was rather crispy. I didn't sleep all that well at the event because I did not have my CPAP machine, so when Niki got us home at 4 p.m., I headed straight to bed and slept until after 8 p.m.
GNEW was fabulous. Niki's Silver Crescent was a highlight, as was taking Tatiana as a protege. It was also cool to see Crostovau and Klaus get their Maunches. Both are incredibly well-deserved.
Seeing Niki in armor and hearing compliments about her fighting (from people like Master Tearloch The Profane) was very, very cool.
You'll be happy to know that Shark did *not* starve -- again.
Saw too many people to count and had a great time.
As you can see, I am too tired to highlight LJ names.
Today was the first of 10 class days for my teachers-as-writers fellowship at the Boston Athenaeum. We''re getting 50 clock-hours of instruction from a writing professor from UMass-Boston. It's basically a writing workshop.
I have hacked around with ideas for a book for a long time now, and after today, I am giant steps closer to having a real clue. I am going to write a book on community service and student volunteerism -- part handbook, part analysis of how and why students do community service. It will have some controversy in it because I am looking at the idea of mandatory community service required for graduation. There have been court cases and protests over that topic already.
There are 14 other people taking part, and they range from preschool folks to community college folks, and they are all looking at very cool writing projects, too.
The Athenaeum is an amazing, 200-year-old private library, across the street from the statehouse. The windows in the back overlook the Old Granary Burying Yard, so it's got a great view, and inside it is very tut-tut old money. Our classes are in the board of directors room, which also includes books from George Washington's library and a lot of portraits of old, dead people. Our instructor said not to be effected by the room, and I offered to bring in a Belushi poster.
Of course, I started the fellowship after a weekend at GNEW, and I was rather crispy. I didn't sleep all that well at the event because I did not have my CPAP machine, so when Niki got us home at 4 p.m., I headed straight to bed and slept until after 8 p.m.
GNEW was fabulous. Niki's Silver Crescent was a highlight, as was taking Tatiana as a protege. It was also cool to see Crostovau and Klaus get their Maunches. Both are incredibly well-deserved.
Seeing Niki in armor and hearing compliments about her fighting (from people like Master Tearloch The Profane) was very, very cool.
You'll be happy to know that Shark did *not* starve -- again.
Saw too many people to count and had a great time.
As you can see, I am too tired to highlight LJ names.
