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I plunked out a long lamentation about workload, strain and self-pity, then
\nblew it off the monitor with an Elbovian wisp: ‘DEL’.  This<\/i> looks
\nlike it’s going to take a lot of work.  With a few small
\nexceptions–nothing shocking or out of the ordinary–I’m getting exactly what I
\nbargained for.  My only immediate concern is reconciling rhythm with tempo.
\nThinking +\/- 250 BPM.<\/p>\n

So after class tonight I wedged in another mini-span for family
\ntime–frozen (then baked) pizzas and an hour straight of The Family Guy<\/i>. 
\nProbably could’ve found tickets to hear Michael Moore talk about humor at the
\nCarrier Dome, but running between classes and colloquia and office hours from
\n8:30 a.m. this morning until 7:15 p.m. this evening had me feeling like enough
\nwas enough. Figure, as well, that anything remarkable from the talk will hover
\nover campus for the next few days.<\/p>\n

And the final bit, I suppose, is common enough.  When I try to write
\nanything lately, I feel over-stimulated–jammed. I record reading notes, even
\npost them to my  other tinderblog (mostly unlinked scraps, fragments,
\norts…or the new fave word of the week: melange<\/i>).  And I’ve been
\ntyping a whole bunch of stuff–response papers and so on.  But when I try
\nto write<\/i>, I struggle.  Ebb?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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