what's new?

• ✓ nov. 1: all saints day!
• ✓ nov. 1: edmund's birthday !!!!!
  • happy birthday to the pastoral prince and poet of my heart... i love u rabbit king !!!! (ꈍ ᴗ ꈍ✿)
• ✓ nov. 1: nanowrimo begins
• ✓ nov. 2: all souls day (!!)
• ✓ nov. 3: my patron saint's feast day!
• ✓ nov. 4: robert mapplethorpe's birthday :0)
• ✓ nov. 5: guy fawkes day
• ✓ nov. 9: leave for research trip 2!
• ✓ nov. 11: vonnegut's birthday
• ✓ nov. 11: armistice day <333
  • ✓ remember to wear a red poppy ❁
  • ✓ observe minute of silence @ 11 am
• ✓ nov. 12: come home!
• ✓ nov. 13: new ac/dc album!!
• ✓ nov. 26: thanksgiving
• ✓ nov. 29: andrzejki (st. andrew's eve)

goals

• celebrate andrzejki !!
• ✓ start buying christmas presents
• ✓ finish 500 transcriptions for project (725/500)

obsessions

• um. it's still catch-22 :0)
• kurt vonnegut. yes. you all knew this one was coming
  • not me watching that documentary trailer over and over again and crying until my head throbbed... extremely on brand for me personally

moments

• when you have an interesting dream that unfolds as if it were a play and you wake up and write down the dream and ur like YES score thank you subconscious mind and then you wake up again and realize that you were just dreaming you were writing down the play that you were dreaming about and in fact ur notebook is empty... just playwright things <3
• if you saw me walk into the used bookstore and buy a third copy of catch-22 even though i have literally four dollars in my purse at any given time... no you didn't <33
  • they marked this 50th anniversary edition down to $1.98 just because it has water damage but like. i adore water damaged books,, they rlly played themselves !
• it's my 30 minute car ride AND I get to choose the music !!!!! *proceeds to play "i'm hurtin" by roy orbison on repeat for the entire trip*
  • not justin looking like he's going to throw my phone out the window after i've yelled PLAY IT AGAIN SAM for the tenth time.... what a trooper :0)

good things about the month

• giggling over my copy of catch-22 in the coffee shop parking lot; roy orbison records endlessly spinning; practicing deep work; research trip! research trip! research trip! oh my goodness the weather was so warm; visiting my favorite haunts, tracing familiar paths; muffins and fresh fruit for breakfast; long walks and iced lattes; sitting by the river and writing; blue skies, creamsicle sunsets; new notebooks; golden sunlight; yearbooks from the 1910s at the flea market, smiling like an idiot at the sight of my boys, their portraits pressed lovingly between the pages; flowers from the grocery store; armistice day and the pouring rain; returning home, happy, refreshed, under my favorite november skies; vonnegut !!! imagine having such compassion for humanity, and in particular for young writers; the last warm days of autumn; writing possibly the most self-indulgent play in human history, also known as the best feeling in the world; toasted bagels and vonnegut scholarship over breakfast; bundling up for my daily walks as the weather gets colder; dusk on overcast days; hours spent transcribing; kate zambreno and her many, many obsessions, her work always feeling like a warm hug; thanksgiving with the family, and such nice weather omg; iced gingerbread lattes;