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Ms – Week 9 Log

May 27th

2 hours Reading Neuro (Ch. 8)

2 hours Reading Perloff

2.5 hour writing term papers

May 28th

2 hours writing term papers

1 hour gathering/editing poetry for term papers

2.5 hours Writing, editing term papers/poetry

May 29th

.5 hours Writing week 8 reverie, editing and posting

1.5 hours Student artist lecture series

1 hour writing term papers

1 hour Reading Poetry and the Fate of the Senses / Proust was Neuroscientist

May 30th

2 hours Transcribing notes from “Scento” experiment

3 hours reading Proust

1 hour writing poetry

1 hour editing poetry

3 hours writing term papers

1 hour arranging poetry for term papers

1 hour reading online articles for term papers

May 31st

1.5 hour reading online articles / books for term paper

1 hour writing poems

1 hour journaling prose

2.5 hours reading Proust was a Neuroscientist

June 1st

4 hours writing term papers

1 hour writing poetry

1 hour editing

June 2nd

3 hours writing term papers

1 hour editing

1 hour writing poems

Totals

This week: 45 hours

Cumulative total: 165 hours

Reading List:

Remembrance of things past

Proust was a Neuroscientist

My Poets

 

Time log week 10

5/27 – Monday
3 hours – writing/compiling poetry
2 hours – wrote a song
2 hours – preparing and sharing food
1.5 hours – played piano, listened to a sweet jam session

5/28 – Tuesday
1.5 hour – bike ride :)
1 hour – preparing and giving my final presentation
3.5 hours – struggling to edit videos
1 hour – pulling Bermuda grass

5/29 – Wednesday
1 hour – run to creek
.5 hour – time logging
.5 hour – Ace visit to grab brackets for my bike
1 hour – tour of the food Co-op
3 hours – fixing up my bike at an amazing bike collective called ‘Bike 4th’
.5 hour – learning about the Cafe Gratitude method of clearing

5/30 – Thursday – This day I messed a bunch of shit up.
1.5 hour – running and exploring
2.5 hours – organizing and expanding my blog
4 hours – writing my self-evaluation for class (I found out when I finished that I had not done the assignment the way my teacher had asked my class to)
2 hours – sharing another meal with the residents of N-Street Community

5/31 – Friday
3 hours – redoing the self evaluation
3 hours – working on movie stuff – I got my first video posted! :)
3 hours – hanging out on the town, there was a “Food Truck Rodeo” and a party at the bike collective – Bike 4th – where I did my first silk screening ever!

6/1 – Saturday
6 hours – re-writing ‘Recycling Goethean Science’
It was just too hot to do anything else.

6/2 – Sunday
4.5 hours – biking to Sacramento, checking out the capitol, riding along the American River
3 hours – connecting with the only other solo, female cyclist I’ve met on my journey
3 hours – writing ‘Recycling Goethean Science,’ including compiling time logs

55 hours

Time log week 9

5/20 – Monday
2 hours – Massage and Reiki Trade (a little cycle of skill exchanging)
4 hours – preparing and sharing food with a beautiful community of people. Monday nights, “Late but Great!”
2 hours – going through all my stuff, I no longer need all my cold-weather gear; transitioning with the cycles of the seasons

5/21 – Tuesday
5 hours – writing ‘Recycling Goethean Science’
2 hours – time logging
1 hour – picking cherries
1 hour – community dinner

5/22 – Wednesday
1 hour – run; movement
1 hour – playing piano
5 hours – writing ‘Recycling Goethean Science’
1 hour – community dinner

5/23 – Thursday
6 hours – writing ‘Recycling Goethean Science’
1 hour – yoga on roof!
1 hour – attended a community dinner in a neighborhood called ‘N Street’ where they took down all their fences and created common space, gardens, and walkways where the back yards used to be
1 hour – check-ins at meeting at Sunwise
1 hour – writing poetry

5/24 – Friday
2 hours – writing ‘Recycling Goethean Science’
3 hours – the inauguration of the Compassion Corner, tour of Davis
3 hours – seeing the Honey Drops (a band from the Bay area) and dancing!

5/25 – Saturday – farm visit
2 hours – driving through a landscape that does not follow the natural cycles of the earth: Monoculture
1.5 hour – farm tour
4 hours – moving dirt, using a jackhammer, digging a pooper
1 hour – hiking down to the creek and swimming
2 hours – preparing and sharing food
1.5 hours – making music!

5/26 – Sunday – return to Davis
2 hours – bike ride to a bee sanctuary, and to Putah Creek to watch the last beads of sunlight drip down beyond the mountains. There were river otters too!

 

P – Week 8 Log

5.20.13:  1 morning pages, 1/2 meditation, 2 walking meditation/nature hike, 2 poetry workbook, 1 WordPress, 1 Neuro/reverie

5.21.13:  3/4 morning pages, 1 walking meditation, 3 writing paper, 2 reading Everything Being Is Dancing, 2 reading & notes on House of Incest

“My first vision of earth was water veiled.  I am of that race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.”  –House of Incest, Anais Nin

5.22.13:  1 morning pages, 3/4 yoga, 1/2 chat with Sarah, 3 David Seamon’s website, 2 notes for paper

“…a lived reciprocity whereby house and inhabitants mutually sustain and reflect each other, sometimes in positive ways that facilitate engagement and care; at other times, in negative ways that intimate or spur personal or social dissolution.”  –From David Seamons’ article “Gaston Bachelard’s Topoanalysis”

5.23.13:  1 morning pages, sudden move to Indiana and loss of internet access, 2 writing poetry

5.24.13:  3/4 morning pages, 1 Bodystories, 5 writing paper, 2 notes on Seamon articles

5.25.13:  1/2 morning pages, 1 yoga, 4 3/4 writing paper,

5.26.13:  last trip back to Kentucky

Total:  41.5 hours

Hh – Week 9 Log

May 27th

2 hours – Writing Poetry
3 hours – Reading: How To Rap: The Art and Science of The Hip Hop MC
2 hours – Recording

May 28th

2.5 hours – Attending Seminar on Perloff/Neuro
1 hour – Writing poetry
3 hours – Reading “My Poets”, Writing: My Lyricist:Tupac Shakur

May 30th

3 hours – Attending Guest Lecture/Performing for Calculated Poetics
2.5 hours – Catching up eAlphabet/Writing poetry
4 hours – Writing: My Lyricist: Tupac Shakur

May 31st

5 hours – Writing: My Lyricist: Tupac Shakur (on a plane)
4 hours – Writing: My Lyricist: Dre Dupre
1.5 hours – Listening: All Eyez on Me, considering parallel between The Rose That Grew From Concrete

June 1st

4 hours – Writing: My Lyricist: Tupac Shakur (finished!)
3 hours – Reading: How To Rap: The Art and Science of The Hip Hop MC
3 hours – Writing: My Lyricist: Dre Dupre

Totals

This week: 43.5 hours

Cumulative total: 162 hours

Reading List:

  • My Poets

  • How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC

  • The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Hh – Week 8 Log

May 20th

4 hours – Studying Tupac: Strictly for My N.*.G.G.A.Z.
2 hours – Writing Poetry
2 hours – Comparing Tupac: 2Pacalypse to All Eyez On Me

May 21st

2.5 hours – Attending Seminar on Perloff/Neuro
3 hours – Working on songs
2.5 hours – Writing poetry, considering similarities between Tupac’s The Rose That Grew From Concrete and my own poetry

May 22nd

3 hours – Attending Guest Lecture/Writing workshop with Eirik Sommerfelt
2 hours – Writing “My Lyricist: Tupac Shakur”, thinking of duality
2 hours – Watching: Tupac: Interviews

May 23rd

3.5 hours – Attending “My Poets” Class/Guest Lecture by Eirik Sommerfelt
3 hours – Writing and editing lyrics
2 hours – Research: How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC, looking for strategies in rhyme and rhythm 
1 hour – Writing “My Lyricist: Tupac Shakur” 

May 24th

3 hours – Writing lyrics
2.5 hours – Writing Poetry
3 hours – Writing “My Lyricist: Tupac Shakur”  

Totals

This week: 41 hours

Cumulative total: 118.5 hours

Reading List:

  • My Poets

  • How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC

  • The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Hh – Week 7 Log

May 13th

2.5 hours – Reading: How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC
4 hours – Writing lyrics
2.5 hours – Studying Tupac: 2Pacalypse Now

May 14th

2.5 hours – Seminar on Perloff/Neuro
1.5 hour – Getting Proficiency for Mixing Bench
2 hours – Writing lyrics
2 hours – Reading: How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC 

May 15th

1.5 hours – Attending Guest Lecture
2 hours – Writing and editing lyrics
2.5 hours – My Poets: Louise Gluck (Looking at how to use the chapter to create my own)

May 16th

1.5 hours – Attending “My Poets” Class
3 hours – Reading: How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC
2 hours – Watching: Tupac Shakur: Interviews
1.5 hour – Beginning “My Lyricist: My Tupac Shakur”

May 17th

2 hours – Writing lyrics
2.5 hours – Writing Poetry
4 hours – Recording

Totals

This week: 39.5 hours

Cumulative total: 77.5 hours

Reading List:

  • My Poets

  • How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC

  • The Rose That Grew from Concrete

A – Log Week 9

16 hours – reading (This Compost, Neuro, The Midnight, various poetry, The Forge and the Crucible, Creative Mythology, Transcendental Magic, etc).

8 hours – sound design and digital art utilizing granular processing in Ableton Live, Photoshop, and Corel Painter.

16 hours – paper writing, continuation of drafts, peer-review and editing, formatting and final drafts.

8 hours – poetry, journal, nature walks and reveries.

Total hours – 48

A – Log Week 8

16 hours – reading (This Compost, The Forge and the Crucible, The Alchemy Reader, Creative Mythology, Neuro, various poetry, etc).

5 hours – sound design with granular processing in Ableton Live, and digital art.

8 hours – online and library reasearch, reading 3 peer-reviewed articles by MIT Press on granular synthesis and cellular automata (computer systems modeled to reporduce like biological organisms).

12 hours – working on both papers, continuation of outlines and motifs and then first drafts.

Total hours – 41

 

A – Log Week 7

16 hours – reading (The Alchemy Reader, Jung’s Psychology of Alchemy, Creative Mythology, Neuro, This Compost, various poetry, The Forge and the Crucible, The Red Lion, Timeaus).

8 hours – software desing (granular scrubber design in Reaktor programming environment), sound design with granular processing in Ableton Live, and digital art.

5 hours – nature walk, journaling, poetry, and reveries.

8 hours – online and library research.

3 hours – paper outlines and motifs (modeling after The Midnight and This Compost).

Total hours – 40