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Consistently and thoroughly.

I've been busy. I'm teaching two classes this semester, one of which is brand new to me. I've agreed to write two features for Glasstire. I have two lengthy translations to edit (thank goodness I've at least finished the translations themselves). Then there's a conference paper to write and a panel proposal to finish. And oh yes, I have revisions of my own to do. So I've been lagging behind on the blog front.

I'm doing better keeping up with the reading, though. To get on track, I started by deleting a few things from my list of regular readings because, well, I wasn't reading them regularly. I felt so liberated when I got rid of the entire folder called "Art." I don't like to read art criticism. I know I should do it because it would be both instructive and useful in terms of staying in touch. But I just can't stand it. I don't really like to read it in print, and somehow the immediacy of the call-and-response aspect of blogging just heightens what I already find annoying about art writing. Lots of haw-haw-haw and you-got-that-right-dude. I realize that if I'm going to keep writing criticism myself I need to get a thicker skin. But right now just doesn't feel like the time.

Then I did the thing that feels like a cop-out: I hit "mark all as read." D'oh. The feeds I reset were the ones that are only peripherally interesting to me, anyway (because I keep up with the others), but I hope I didn't miss anything important. You'd tell me, right? And you'd let me know if I wrongfully deleted something I should still be keeping up with?

On Friday I found a few fun things. I was feeling all smart because I got nearly all of the references here, only to be made to feel clueless again by a similar exercise over at Craig's. I tell ya I like the original idea but my brain just goes all swimmy after a couple of those strings of names. They mean nothing to me.

What have you been doing for fun?

Posted by Heather at February 5, 2006 02:13 PM