Nothin’.
Category: The Project Diary
Six months of posting progress on plays in the hopper.
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Nothin’.
hearing another whole story
Mother Antonia: Emailed with Stacey about plans for a reading of the script.
hearing the whole story
Everything Looks Like A Face: Talked with Elizabeth about plans for an informal reading of the book.
nothin’
Nothin’.
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aaaaand….nothin’.
nothin’
Funny how “nothin'” seems to crop up after I turn something in for a deadline.
on not finding what you don’t know you’re looking for
Mother Antonia: Sent off draft 2. Sometimes when I’m doing a project that’s heavy on research there will be some little factoid that I painstakingly puzzle out, only to find that it was presented explicitly in some other source I had already read. Today I had that experience with my “discovery” that S. Ste. Helene...
M.A. & PBK
Mother Antonia: Finding places to expand and elaborate. Took a look at the correspondence between S. Antonia and the Phi Beta Kappa gatekeepers. I get the impression they were intimidated by her. Perhaps because (for instance) when invited to give input on their assessment, she goes at it paragraph by paragraph.
snapshot 1904
Mother Antonia: Worked on draft 2. Ran into an unexpected obstacle when I tried to come up with a snapshot of women’s rights in Minnesota in 1904. Obviously women couldn’t vote in state and national elections, but what else were they formally barred from doing on the basis of sex? There are lists like this...