My Day is a Novel (29 nov):

(1) early morning star gazing: Orion setting, Sirius just above the horizon, Jupiter is near Castor & Pollux, Ursa Major, Arcturus ... ah the voyage to... such an excellent book

(2) coffee x2, diary ... mon journal intime ... aujourd'hui est le jour où je reprendrai mon année de maîtriser le français ... et la japonaise ...

(3) resuming my french studies means going back through the notebooks I began over the summer, there are 4 of them, really?

(4) wrote chapter 8032 of my serial novel

(5) french + japanese lessons, vocabulary review & learning how to type the hiragana symbols on my phone using the flick mode

(6) daily walk, clear skies & calm

(7) had some friends over for dinner, topics of discussion: AI & computer programing for data analysis, peculiarities of Dutch grammar & the function of verbs indicating spatial orientation in conjunction with the verb "to be", and eating disorders

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My Day in a Novel (28 nov):

(1) dreamed that Mr P., the proprietor of Cottonwood Books, was now running a convenience store & I went in to buy a bottle of beer, a large format Belgian strong golden, but when I was paying, I noticed the bottle was only three-quarters full

(2) not sure if my circular breathing is yielding the desired results, tho it's getting easier to sit with my back straight for 5+ minutes

(3) drank coffee while making notes for a future writing project

(4) breakfast: eggs, bacon, cheesy grits

(5) worked on NN25 aka "If around a dark star an orbiter", chapter 8031 of the serial antinovel

(6) rereading The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, but skipping the diary part and reading the chapters first (this time)

(7) lunch, nap, walk, took photos of clouds for my poetry project

(8) more Levrero, started reading Empty Words & started thinking it was time to get back to my own therapeutic task

#EverydayLife #Writing #Books #Reading

My Day is a Novel (27 novembre):

(1) 7 mins of circular breathing, then coffee rituals

(2) made notes about "The Fascination of Time" chapter in Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life, compared to observations about embodied time in Rusana Bardarska's To Essay.

(3) read a few pages in Leyla Erbil's What Remains: "is christianity worse than islam sis, i asked / or course it is! she said / you talk like that again and I'll rip your tongue out" etc.

(4) spent three hours working on this: https://write.as/leadworth/tag:NN25

(5) pizza for lunch, then a nap

(6) reread the first 24 pages of This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale by Subimal Misra

(7) daily walk, observed the waves running northeast, parallel to the shore

(8) social obligations, small talk, helmet ball, some footy talk, secretly thinking about books

(9) back home, lit fire, studied french & japanese, then read from the two ATTILAs, made notes

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My Day is a Novel ... cont.:

(7) boiled angel hair pasta for lunch

(8) listened to 3 versions of "Season of the Witch" ... Luna, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and the original by Donovan himself & recalling just how much like the whole album "Sunshine Superman"

(9) read more of Rusana Bardarska's "To Essay" paying special attention to how she arranges a mix of heterogeneous material into a ... one book

(10) nap, dreamed I was a time traveler visiting the ruined city of the past and regretting than I'd neglected to bring my phone along so I could take pictures to share with the future ... no, it never was as good as we think it is

(11) daily walk, wearing my signature black bowler & yellow raincoat, helped a woman capture her runaway dog, later, narrowly avoided stepping in poo

(12) finished reading "The Subterraneans" by Jack Kerouac

(13) spent an hour cleaning the kitchen, putting away dishes, and generally getting the house ready for ...

#EveryDayLife #Writing #MyLuminousNovel

My day (so far):

(1) made coffee, read some Chung Tzu to learn the use of uselessness

(2) tripped a breaker trying to fix a light in my microwave

(3) bacon, eggs, & rice for breakfast

(4) more coffee, wrote in my diary and pretended that I was starting a new novel

(5) continued working on the novelette (or whatever it is) that I've been writing since ... who knows how these things get started?

(6) well, here I am ...

#EveryDayLife #Writing

Colors and lives crossing in an instant.

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