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All this talking about masks and roles at Governor’s School makes me think about how I use this blog. I want it for me, but I also am into other people seeing it. But since it’s for other people as well as myself, I feel constrained about how free to be. I’m into documenting my creative process and I’m also into sharing that with interested people. But if my audience is just myself, I can be much freer, less self conscious. What masks do I feel compelled to wear in the different cases?

On another front, I’m sick of doing all this AV stuff, at least for tonight. It’s just my sleep deficit I think. I was up until 2AM doing administrative work. I never realized how long it takes to make a freaking form. Of course I had to make 8 different ones.

Stumbled through today’s gauntlet of meetings. 1)All staff 2) Kyle and Rebecca 3)Area III 4)Convocation.

Got a little taste of hanging out w/the youth tonight w/the TACs over pizza. Gave me a taste of what at least some of the kids will be like. Smart, well read, steeped in expensive cultural gravy. Kind of what some of these kids will be like in a few years.

That How Marcel Proust Can Change Your life is influencing my thinking a little. Especially prominant in my thoughts: How he took care not to push his own thoughts and biography out into conversations. He focused on the other person, drew them out, flattered them, made them feel important. It’s kind of nice. It’s nice to hear about someone who is not into impressing other people.

Of course, then he would create characters in his fiction using thinly disguised versions of his friends as characters, often times showing them in a less than flattering light. Mmmmmm.