I feel like I'm waiting for a job interview, all dressed up and nowhere to go. 2.5 hours until my first school event. And then I'm off and running.
In the meantime, I'm trying to entertain myself.
I was inspired today by all the amazing literary blogs out there and now I feel like I should write more about what I'm reading.
Right now I'm in the middle of Diane Ackerman's "History of the Senses", which I've wanted to read for a long time. I have to say, she can be pretty fruity and she's definitely the most feminine womanly woman writer I've read in a while. I go between really loving the information she provides (she goes through each of the five senses and gives a history and some literary information) and feeling repulsed by how often she talks about women's attraction to men, menstruation, and gross straight things that seem kind of gender essentialist to my oh so post-modern mind. Anyway, I don't think I would recommend it, but I'm going to finish it because as a writer, it's helping me understand how I write about each sense.
I've got to have some lunch before school.
Here's hoping I can hide my social awkwardness for the next ten days...
