Mother Antonia: writing what I refer to as a “spew” draft. Rereading and taking notes on Carroll et al. Infrastructure: Got a rejection letter from an organization to which I didn’t remember having submitted a script, then realized I must have sent it in through the New Play Exchange website, which automates the process to...
Author: Anne
good hustle
Mother Antonia: read Mary Ellen Chase’s A Goodly Fellowship, a memoir of her (Chase’s) teaching career. Her chapter on St. Catherine’s includes a widely-quoted paragraph about Mother Antonia (“[She] went at the realization of St. Catherine’s College with everything she had in her, and she had literally everything….She prayed while she hustled, and she hustled...
nothin’
Day job.
tagged
Mother Antonia: Finished reading Liberating Sanctuary. Pages duly marked for taking notes. It’s hard to remember life before Post-Its.
nothin’
Kind of by design. Tired.
scarcity
Mother Antonia: Took notes and categorized them. “Making do with scarce resources” is definitely a category. Infrastructure: literal infrastructure. The Captcha application (Blue Captcha) I was using to filter out spam was making it too difficult for actual people to post comments, so I switched to Akismet.
The Agonizing Jailbreak
A scrap from Frankenstein Incarnate. Caleb Williams is a novel by Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin. One part of the story really stuck with me: Caleb’s corrupt employer unjustly accuses him of theft, which carries the death penalty. Caleb is put in prison to await trial. A month goes by. His friend Brightwel, a fellow-prisoner,...
friends and relations
Mother Antonia: reading, organizing notes, Googling. When S. Antonia was a young student at the University of Chicago, she wrote affectionate, chatty letters to her friend Florence Guthrie of Blooming Prairie, MN, and encouraged Florence to join the Sisters of St. Joseph. Later, when Sister Antonia was president of CSC, a Sister Ste. Helene Guthrie...
pattern recognition
Everything Looks Like A Face: Very productive meeting with Elizabeth. We start to see the larger patterns of give-and-take among the characters, and to sort out where there may be missing tiles in the “mosaic”. Erika: Did some problems. 11 skills away from the coveted Sally Ride badge.
squeaking by
Erika: barely escaped another “nothin'” by doing a couple of problems just now.