16 hours – reading (The Alchemy Reader, The Forge and the Crucible, Creative Mythology, This Compost, Transcendental Magic, The Red Lion).
10 hours – software design (granular scrubber design in Reaktor programming environment), digital sound design, and art.
5 hours – nature walk, writing poetry, and journal.
5 hours – reviewing notes and doing online research into esoteric alchemy. Watched documentary on hermetic traditions by Terrence McKenna).
Total hours: 39
This week I focused on the transformation within myself, I thought alot about the whole, what did I learn from this quarter as a whole?
I taught myself to throw pottery, which is a really amazingly embodied and fun thing to do! Within doing this I witnessed many metaphors for transformation from within, which i talk alot about in my paper, which I worked alot on this week, being my main focus.
I Also finished Neuro!
I glazed many bowls and pots and thought about what I wanted from them.
I worked with Herbal First -Aid
and I started my self/teacher evals.
This week I worked for 37 Hours
5/26: 5 hours of working on final paper, 1 hours of NetLogo, 2 hours on Excel
5/27: 2.25 hrs of class, 4 hours of working on final paper, 3 hours on Calculated Poetics readings, 1 hour on Excel
5/28: 4 hours of final paper, 2 hours of preparing presentation, 2 hours on academic statement
5/29: 3 class, 5 hours on final paper, 1 hour on NetLogo
5/30: 2 hours of class, 2 hours of peer support, 3 hours on compiling a portfolio
5/31: 2 hours of preparing presentation, 1 hour on self-eval
6/1: 3 hours on self-eval
Spring Week 9 Log
Sunday 5/26:
-3 hours working on term paper
-1 hour recording music
-1.5 hours editing recordings
-1/2 hour editing eAlphabet site
Day total: 6
Monday 5/27:
-4 hours working on term paper
-1.5 hours recording
-1.5 hours editing recordings
Day total: 7
Tuesday 5/28:
-3.5 hours working on term paper
-1.5 hours studying calculated poetics material
-1/2 hour writing calculated poem
-1.5 hours editing recordings
-1/2 hour recording
Day total: 7.5
Wednesday 5/29:
-2.5 hours working on term paper
-1/2 hour reading TGAO
-2 hours recording
-1 hour editing recording
-1.5 hours in class (calculated poetics)
Day total: 7.5 hours
Thursday 5/30:
-1 hour collecting sound samples
-2 hours editing recordings
-1 hour recording
-2 hours in calculated poetics seminar
Day total: 6 hours
Friday 5/31:
-3 hours working on term paper
-1 hour editing recordings
Day total: 4 hours
Saturday 6/1:
-1 hour recording
-2 hours editing recordings
Day total: 3 hours
Week 9 hours: 41 hours
Total hours: 168 hours
1 hour – read conclusion to Neuro
1 ½ hours – wrote and posted Neuro Reverie on conclusion.
1 hour – looked up Vanessa Place’s Statements of Facts. Found an interesting review on Jacket2.
½ hour – read over previous self-evaluations from fall and winter quarter. Started to write spring quarter evaluation.
2 hours – Last seminar on Perloff and Neuro.
2 ½ hours – rallying in solidarity with the Student Support Services at Evergreen.
½ hours – meeting with Sarah about project.
2 hours – drafting self evaluations.
½ hours – developing ideas for presentation.
THE BOOK AS ARRIVED
1 ½ hours – worked on self evaluations
1 ½ hours – artist lecture series.
½ hours – posted anthology to blog, up dated ILC on blog, turned in hard copy of book to faculty.
6 hours – writing self evaluation.
1 ½ hours – editing Rukha’s term paper.
4 ½ hours – writing self-evaluations and faculty evaluations.
worked all day.
2 hours – working on presentation.
May 25th
20 minutes: Morning Transcendental Meditation session
2 1/2 hours: Finish Rosenthal’s Transcendance
1 hours: Outlining Holdrege
20 minutes: Evening Meditation session
(4 hours, 10 min)
May 26th
20 minutes: Morning Meditation Session
2 hours: Drafting poetry
1 hour: Watching Glassblowing on Youtube
2 hours: Reading Psychoanalysis of Fire
20 minutes: Evening Meditation Session
(5 hours, 40 min)
May 27th
20 minutes: Morning Meditation session
2 hours: Drafting Holdrege
6 hours: At Mountlake Terrace High school working with Mark Walker
20 minutes: Evening Meditation Session
(8 hours, 40 minutes)
May 28th
20 minutes: Morning Transcendental Meditation session
2 hours: Drafting Holdrege
2 1/2 hours: Finish Rosenthal’s Transcendance
1 hours: Drafting poetry
2 hours: Reading Neuro
2 hours: Drafting/posting Neuro Reverie
20 minutes: Evening Meditation session
(10 hours, 10 min)
May 29th
20 minutes: Morning Meditation Session
1 hour: Reading and posting Queneau Exercises
2 hours: Drafting Holdrege
2 hours: Reading/posting CP weekly readings
1 1/2hours: Reading Psychoanalysis of Fire
20 minutes: Evening Meditation Session
(7 hours, 10 min)
May 30th
20 minutes: Morning Meditation session
6 hours: Working with Mark at MTHS
2 hour: Drafting Holdrege
1 hour: Reading Bachelard
20 minutes: Evening Meditation Session
(9 hours, 40 minutes)
May 31st
20 minutes: Morning Meditation session
4 hour: Working with Mark at MTHS
1 hours: at Dank Tank in Seattle
3 hours: Final drafting and revisons, Holdrege
1/2 hour: Choosing/posting favorite CP poem
20 minutes: Evening Meditation session
(6 hours, 10 minutes)
Totals
This week: 50 hours and 50 minutes
Cumulative Total: 184 hors and 50 minutes
Reading List:
Transcendence Dr. Rosenthal
Science of Being, Art of Living Mahesh Yogi
The Psychoanalysis of Fire Gaston Bachelard
4 hours writing term paper
Total hours: 4
4 hours writing term paper
8 hours digitizing story
Total: 12
Cumulative total: 18
4 hours digitizing story
7 hours writing term paper
Total: 11
Cumulative total: 29
6 hours digitizing story
Total: 6
Cumulative total: 35
8 hours digitizing story
Finally finished. Took absolutely forever. Figures that I’m such a perfectionist that I had to edit it a whole bunch. I hope it turned out well.
Total: 8
Cumulative total: 43
2 hours writing poetry
Total: 2
Cumulative total: 45
2 hours writing poetry, digitizing work, retagging post
1 hour poetry observed.
Total: 3
Cumulative total: 48
Couldn’t find the drivers for my camera, so I had to go and install a new program to use it. Took longer than I was expecting.
Grand total: 415.5 hours
May 26th
3 hours reading Cuda
3 hours reading Damasio
30 minutes chan meditation session
daily total: 6 and 1/2 hours
May 27th
1 hour meditataion session
4 hours editing Holdrege and Howe style paper
30 minutes reading Damasio
daily total: 5 hours
May 28th
2 hours listening to sublime
1 hour reading Cuda
1 hour reading Damasio
1 hour writing poetry
daily total: 5 hours
May 29th
2 hours re-reading Unoriginal Genius Fig. 5.1-5.5
1 hour listening to Sublime
1 hour meditataion session
1 hour reading Cuda
daily total: 5 hours
May 30th
4 hours editing Holdrege and Howe style paper
2 hours reading Cuda
daily total: 6 hours
May 31st
1 hour editing Holdrege and Howe style paper
30 minutes reading Damasio
30 minutes re-reading poetry in Howe
4 hours drawing Sublime Sunshine 40oz to Freedom
daily total: 6 hours
May 32nd
3 hours writing poetry about Sublime
2 hours listeing to Sublime
1 hour editing Holdrege and Howe style paper
daily total: 6 hours
Totals
This week: 40 hours
Cumulative Total: 166 hours
Reading List:
The Midnight by Susan Howe
Unoriginal Genius: poetry by other means in the new century by Marjorie Perloff Fig. 5.1-5.5
May 27th, Monday
1.5 hours connecting with our peer group, reaching out, hugs, tears, and words of wisdom.
3 hours reading The Female Pelvis Anatomy & Exercise by Blandine Calais-Germain, performing the exercises, breathing, moving slowly still working up my body to preform in the next coming days.
I am working through my grief.
May 28th, Tuesday
4 hours of presentations.
3 hours working on my Holdrege paper, organizing, working in edits.
May 29th, Wednesday
3 hours reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.
2 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris
2 hours reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
I went for a swim today and saw jellyfish, a beautiful reminder of life.
May 30th, Thursday
4 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris, and talking to a friend about evolution. I have been able to connect my study of focus to that of my peers as well, it is a reassuring and pleasant change of pace.
2 hours creating poetry, trying to channel my pain and the pain I have been reading about into a work while the feelings are fresh.
2 hours in the Calculated Poetics class session listening to presentations while I made origami, it truly calmed me.
May 31st, Friday
3 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris, I am finding this book to be one of my favorites because of it’s evolutionary lens.
2 hours working on the Holdredge paper, organizing ideas and formatting.
June 1st, Saturday
3 hours reading reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.
2 hours working with a peer group on the formatting of my final paper, reviewing, sharing information.
3 hours writing poetry, breathing, moving more often.
1 hour reading Write About an Empty Birdcage by Elaina M. Ellis, looking for inspiration.
June 2nd, Sunday
2 hours reading Neuro by Nikolas Rose, conjuring a reverie.
5 hours reading, grabbing words from Cloves and Honey and Bodies of Light by Athena Kildegaard.
Totals
This week: 47.5 hours
Cumulative total: 170 hours
May 19th
3 hours re-reading Susan Howe’s The Midnight
4 hours writing poetry for Susan Howe style paper
30 minutes chan meditation session
daily total: 7 and 1/2 hours
May 20th
4 hours working on Susan Howe style paper
2 hours chan meditation session
daily total: 6 hours
May 21st
3 hours reading Susan Howe’s The Midnight
4 hours writing poetry for Susan Howe style paper
daily total: 6 hours
May 22nd
2 hours reading Damasio
2 hours re-reading Susan Howe’s The Midnight
2 hours reading Unoriginal Genius Fig. 5.1-5.5
daily total: 6 hours
May 23rd
3 hours writing poetry for Susan Howe style paper
1 hour read Damasio
daily total: 4 hours
May 24th
4 hours working on Susan Howe style paper
1 hour chan meditation session
daily total: 5 hours
May 25th
1 hour writing poetry about meditation
1 hour re-reading The Midnight
4 hours working on Susan Howe style paper
daily total: 6 hours
Totals
This week: 44 hours
Cumulative Total: 126 hours
Reading List:
The Midnight by Susan Howe
Unoriginal Genius: poetry by other means in the new century by Marjorie Perloff Fig. 5.1-5.5