Life in The Desert

~It is presently 55° and 74% humidity and a damp wind is blowing. I walk around the corner to put in the lot rent and my face was numbed. Keep in mind that the afternoon high was in the mid 90's just four days ago. Considering it's going to be wet and windy, this afternoon's predicted high of 63° is a maybe.

Ran Prieur On #occupywallstreet

"October 2. People are asking my thoughts on Occupy Wall Street. Here's an article about five ways OccupyWallStreet has succeeded. But notice the level on which it has succeeded: public opinion. In the middle ages, there was universal agreement that the church was corrupt for hundreds of years before the church began to reform. Even then it did not reform because of public opinion, but because it was losing to competing churches. Wall Street has no incentive to change, because it has a monopoly on our lives. We can't buy houses or go to college without bank loans; we can't drive without oil companies; we can't eat without agribusiness. Predictable assholes are saying we have no right to protest if we use products made by the systems we're protesting against. They're so wrong, they're almost right: the whole reason we're protesting is that we can't get what we need without going through corrupt systems; but until we have other ways of getting what we need, we have no leverage to do anything but shout into the wind.

I'm not hopeful about sudden positive change. At the global scale, fast changes tend to be destructive and traumatic, while good changes take decades. Maybe this is like one wave of the tide coming in. The next twenty waves will be smaller, but then one will go a little higher than this one, and eventually the giant blocks of money will be washed away, except for a few islands."

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Today is 14th Decembria, 11AS...a Bastday

"Bastday is The Fourth Day. Bast is the ancient Egyptian Goddess of Cats and those creatures are much beloved by The Sisterhood. She is chosen because cats are very fastidious thereby symbolizing 'the finishing up of business' and also notoriously nocturnal and therefore will guide Sisters as they play with Substances and Sex though the night."

"On the Weekend, the Fourth Day is half and half; morning and early afternoon for finishing up the Work Week and the late afternoon and evening for playing and partying."

Addendum D [Calendar for A New Matriarchy]

I Hate Writing...

..but I love having written.

My writing process has always be problematic. I start off excited and full of enthusiasm, then I get moody and morose, grind to a halt and have to fight my way to the end, with gritted teeth, through sheer will power. Once whatever project it is is done, I collapse into depression for a week or a month or more, depending in direct ratio upon how long the thing actually took to finish. [I use 'actually' far too often btw]

After some time passes, I 'get over it' and start on the editing and rewriting. That tends to be far less painful as it reminds me of what got me excited in the first place, but without the prospect of having to write the whole fucking thing still looming in front of me.

And, unlike so many artists, I do generally like my own work. Some of my old poetry does embarrasses me somewhat, but overall I'm quite happy with my long form fiction pieces. Maybe that's narcissism, but I'll take that over endless artistic self-loathing any day, thank you very much.

...and I wrote all that to avoid dealing with this. A sign of the True Professional; writing to avoid writing.

Life in The Desert

~It is presently 54° and 88% humidity. It was 63° when I got up about an hour ago, but it dropped quickly once the rain started. And there ya have it.

Nebs Sez

"We're likely to stumble along at the present rate with a series of band-aids to keep us going, though sooner or later, things will fall apart. What happens then remains to be seen. But, today is the anniversary of The Women's March on Versailles and I suspect at least some of The Rulers remember those events."

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