Why This Is Hell https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/ Why This Is Hell - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:50:48 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios faustus personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/90269/124918 Why This Is Hell https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/ 100 67 https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/365977.html Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:50:48 GMT The To Do List https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/365977.html Let's see: <br /><br /><ul><li><s>Write a 2000 word piece on PKD</s> (by a couple of weeks ago - a draft done, needs fact checking and an edit - I edited the complete rewrite today)<br /><li><s>See Sarah Millican</s> (17 November)<br /><li><s>Write 4000 words on PKD and philosophy</s> (18 November - by 1pm!)<br /><li><s>Ten minute spiel on <i>Sauvage Planete</i></s> (18 November)<br /><li><s>Muybridge and Turner Prize exhibitions</s> (19 November - and Whiteread)<br /><li><s>See Chris Addison</s> (20 November)<br /><li><s>Edit a 143,000 word PhD thesis</s> (21 November)<br /><li><s>Mark 35+ 2,000 word essays</s> (22 November - over shot to 25 November)<br /><li><s>Brendan Burns</s> (27 November)<br /><li>Greg Davies (29 November)<br /><li>Jeremy Hardy (30 November)<br /><li>Write 20,000 words of a book (30 November)<br /></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></ul><br /><br />So that's that, then. Time for a new to do list:<br /><br /><ul><li>Greg Davies (29 November)<br /><li>Jeremy Hardy (30 November)<br /><li>Attend Sekrit Comedy Gig. Maybe (1 December)<br /><li>Read Seminar 4 of <i>The Sovereign and the Beast</i><br /><li>Awkward Silence (2 December)<br /><li>Mitch Benn (3 December)<br /><li>Visit Chichester (4 December)<br /><li>Jim Jefferies (9 December)<br /><li>Write conference paper (10 December)<br /><li>Jonathan Miller (10 December)<br /><li>Giles Brandreth (18 December)<br /><li>Who knows (25 December)<br /><li>Write 20,000 words of a book (31 December)<br /></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></ul><br /><br /><br />Simples.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&ditemid=365977" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/365977.html research resolutions projects busy public 0 https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/365366.html Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:57:39 GMT The To Do List https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/365366.html <ul><li>Write a 2000 word piece on PKD (by a couple of weeks ago - a draft done, needs fact checking and an edit - this turned into a complete rewrite today)<br /><li><s>See Sarah Millican</s> (17 November)<br /><li><s>Write 4000 words on PKD and philosophy</s> (18 November - by 1pm!)<br /><li><s>Ten minute spiel on <i>Sauvage Planete</i></s> (18 November)<br /><li><s>Muybridge and Turner Prize exhibitions</s> (19 November - and Whiteread)<br /><li><s>See Chris Addison</s> (20 November)<br /><li><s>Edit a 143,000 word PhD thesis</s> (21 November)<br /><li><s>Mark 35+ 2,000 word essays</s> (22 November - over shot to 25 November)<br /><li>Brendan Burns (27 November)<br /><li>Greg Davies (29 November)<br /><li>Jeremy Hardy (30 November)<br /><li>Write 20,000 words of a book (30 November)<br /><br />Meanwhile I'm thinking about what is Sekrit Porject 1 (the single-author monograph) and Sekrit Porject 2 (themed film monograph), and what is the long-backburnered Comedy Porject (aka Sekrit Porject 3), when I had thoughts about werewolves.<br /><br /><br />The back story to this is reading Rob Latham's excellent <i>Consuming Youth</i>, on vampires and cyborgs, which I remember reading and thing, "Someone should do the same on werewolves." Indeed, I can only assume that just as Marx had written on vampires, someone had written on werewolves - although the only thing that sprang to mind was Freud's Wolfman. And I suspect there it lay, disregarded as an idea.<br /><br />Now, thanks to the unintended consequences of an invitation to gatecrash from <a href="http://brisingamen.livejournal.com">Brisingamen</a>, I have an in to the book. <br /><br />The book?<br /><br />There is no way I am ready for Sekrit Porject 4.<br /><br />On the other hand, it may well be a chapter of Sekrit Porject 2, if I can find a way to convinced myself it's sf.<br /><br />No genelycology or anthropolycology without lyconomy.</li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></ul><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&ditemid=365366" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/365366.html projects resolutions research busy public 0