Planned Outage

About a week and a half ago, BGE sent out a letter to all of the occupants of my building, at least, letting us know that starting at as close to 11 p.m. as possible, we would lose power for approximately 8 hours on Monday, September 25th.

In answer to this, a little celebration has been planned. A blackout party at a bar not far from where I work, actually, is being sponsored by some residents. One drink and snack, gratis. What a tremendous idea! I would be more inclined to go if I didn't have class tomorrow night... but the thought of leaving work, going to class, then heading back in that direction is completely unappealing. Normally, I'm in bed by 11 anyway... but this is the very kind of thing I've been wanting to challenge myself to do more often. To be more open to doing.

Once again this thesis class, as an idea, is annoying to me and really just taking up way too much of my emotional energy, which should be going into my thesis. I just remembered an assignment I have to do for class tomorrow night. Ugh!

I did manage to have a breakthrough with Nietzsche today. The point, for me, is to read the works that have been chosen as the focus of my Independent Study as a means of contextualizing my own work. Until today, I didn't know what the footbridge between my work and this novel/philosophical treatise could possibly be (and I was prepared for the fact that there might not be one). It actually goes back to the idea of sublimation--and Nietzsche's utter rejection of sublimation of the soul (I don't know that he would say "soul"). My poems all, in one way or another, are about the desire to reject the sublimation of motives and desire, in the context of my relationships.

It felt like a reward for hanging in there.