Process Roundup 1/21
Includes a whole Saltburn moment lol. There's a related poll I really want to see your results for
Feelings about process: Fatigue is again taking hold. I am knee deep in the chapter I’d been procrastinating on, for fear of exactly the sensation now overcoming me. There is so much to say, so little time. So many lofty statements I wish to make, and they demand so much more substantiating research. I have so many other obligations outside of this book, too. My head hurts. I also want to get this chapter done NOW so that I can savor the downhill ride on forthcoming chapters that I’m convinced will be easier. If I’ve learned anything from this process, though, it’s that god laughs when I plan, so I really shouldn’t be so sure about that.
Listening: One way or another, I always come back to Mulatu Astatke.
Watching: Yes, I at last watched Saltburn.
Here is the stream of conscious notes I started taking halfway through:
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critiques (which, lets be real, border on