Mental map, one month in.

Mental map, one month in.

I’ve been in Edinburgh a month already! Really? Really. So I thought it might be time to draw a mental map. The trees here don’t look anything like that. And I didn’t know how to draw the building we live in without taking up the entire lower-third of the map, so you get a Monopoly house instead. It took a lot of willpower not to include the tram works, but I didn’t have an iPad stylus setting for “fubar”. The good news is that my map of the immediate vicinity is very clear. I can now navigate between all places of importance, which is a list that coincides with the places I will find tea. Additional good news: next week I start my volunteer position at the National Trust for Scotland, which means I will be reliant on public...

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Posted on 16 Nov 2011 | 2 comments

invisible pie

invisible pie

After writing like this for nearly eleven years, I have run out of titles, so I am recycling random things I hear that stick in my brain. Brain, brain, brain: offline life has become a morass of the brain. First it was grad school applications, then the short story that took over my subconscious, and now an impending civil service examination. Then there is the reading list: Enduring Love (Ian McEwan), Tricked (Alex Robinson), and more than a few others. Last night, we even watched a movie, “The Visitor”, so uncommon for us as we have devoted all our DVD time to “Battlestar Galactica” for months now. Aside from writing, I have lost the urge to think creatively, and have not picked up a puzzle in months, nor have I started one of the myriad...

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Posted on 5 Apr 2009 | 1 comment