Tonight I drove through pouring rain to pursue a mythical quest. I prepped throughout the day, even to the point of selecting Green Dragon tea. :-/
I returned to this cautionary article on academic blogging, sent by a friend. Will I accomplish proper balance on the razor-thin edge of fitting in and (trying to) push the envelope?
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Ok, Reflexiity was gone for about 18 hours. “Document has no data.” I guess it was just a hosting problem, according to my two favorite computer gurus. I actually stayed calm – three years of work, poof!
The upswing . . . may it continue!
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(As if I have time for leisure reading, but when I do, Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind looks like a winner.
It’s definitely timely, as I wax and wane between what can only be empirically described as fantasy yet feels, phenomenologically, like a vision of the future. I know it’s only a potential future, but I cannot shake the conviction that if I find the proper alignments it could come to pass. Could be a text book case of what neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran explores regarding hallucination? There is external stimula, which I don’t think I’m misreading (that would be an illusion according to the Wikipedia definition) – empirically observed behavior. “A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus…” seems more on target because the moments of perception (possibly an example of insight?) occur in spatial and temporal distance from the stimulus.
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“Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.”
from The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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what I didn’t get to do this summer. sigh, there’s always next year, right?
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Yep. Left Carolyn’s (with a pang, I confess) 
and hustled all my stuff to Florence. This room is going to work out well, been getting it together this morning and I like how it feels. 
Meanwhile, school officially begins for me tomorrow: “off to the races” as if I haven’t already been!
My overall orientation to time is different, though, as well as my awareness(es)…. it’s kinda cool to witness my own development leap. Will it last? We shall see. I’ve been dreaming like crazy – all kinds of relationship stuff, theory, even about the convergence of themes in the blog (!) – looking for a link, I found this on babies’ consciousness: it’s pretty darn cool.
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This Vermont (!) writer discusses parallels between animals and humans referring to “the sleeper hit of the summer” “March of the Penguins”.
“Functionally, I suspect love is an often temporary chemical imbalance of the brain induced by sensory stimuli that causes us to maintain focus on something that carries an adaptive agenda.
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Shemaya reminded me today of an incident from way back – a decade or more ago (probably more). It was a gathering at Mary Frances’ place on the lake in Pelham. I was distressed about some situation or other. A woman who hadn’t met me before observed my trying to deal with the emotions: “You look like Spock.”
Upon relaying this story to Raz and another bud (who totally cracked up), Raz quipped that “ten years later you became Worf.” From Vulcanism to Klingonism, now that’s something! Raz has seen me rage a few times. His observation of me today was that I’m “quieter.” Is this indicative of a real change or merely jetlag? We’ll find out. Can anyone who’s known me imagine me as “soft-spoken”?
I kinda like the notion myself.
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Carole suggests “the summer of 42″ as a theme for this year’s fieldwork and assorted adventures in “Europe”. (I was caught last night in the extremely american act of saying I’d been “here” since May 7, here meaning “Europe” – not Aalborg, Denmark.)
I’m not sure if the movie of this title is apt but of course now I’ll have to watch it.
Dexus has been an extraordinary culmination; I can’t imagine a better group of people or a more wonderful opportunity. Really!
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