Last night the combination of the energy burst after the late night movie and the drafting of the first few posts of the
This weekend
Here is where my UK and Australian friends can help. Here in the US, we call "normal typing paper" 8 1/2" x 11".
I believe that (contrary to how things once were), US, UK and Australia all now use essentially the same basic typing/printer paper. I want to make the call for a uniform size of typing paper. I don't know the metric sizes or other designations for typing paper in Oz or the UK. Can anyone out there help? When one buys "normal" typing/printer paper, what is its size/type called?
This will help me draft the call.
My plan is to issue a "mail poetry" call in the next few weeks, on a theme I've not picked as yet. I will have to check with the various "mail art" announcement boards to see if it's cool with them to promote "mail poetry" as a "mail art call". If they dissent, I believe that I can find ample ways to "get the word out". Many thanks to
My ten dollar styrofoam cutter arrived! I will now be able to sculpt in styrofoam like Michaelangelo. I also won an ebay auction for a book called "Soap Sculpture". I feel creativity seeping into my every nerve line like a bar of one of those really gritty soaps.
Speaking of creativity, I'll try to mail out my Chess Poems booklet this week to all who responded. Thanks everyone. I'm flattered by the response.
I got some news about a family member's illness that, while not good, is less negative than the initial indications.
But really, with medical news, what does one do? It's all just words to a layperson like me. I am glad to know what to expect, but time tells more stories than predictions ever do.
I have so many great post suggestions and questions to answer from my LJ friends that I find my journal invigorating again. I worried about starting the negative details journal, but I'm pleased to see it's already gotten a number of "friends of" citations. I probably won't add any friends to that journal, as I plan to use this journal as my primary comments and reading source. But please know that I am intrigued and pleased by folks being so open and willing to read such a flawed voice's musings.
Tomorrow marks one year I have been on LJ. I joined LJ after a mail art message board posting by
It's funny, though, the way one things leads to another.
Follow my way to LiveJournal--I bought Suzanne Vega's Songs in Red and Black Cd, which caused me to join her newsgroup. A message I posted on the Suzanne Vega newsgroup caused a mail artist, Jean Kusina, to ask if I knew the well-known mail artist, Buz Blurr, from Gurdon, Arkansas. Although I don't know him personally (kinda know who "his people are", in the way of small towns), she and I began to correspond a bit by e mail, and she encouraged me to begin getting involved in mail art. I began locating mail art calls from a number of resources, including the crosses.net mail art forum. The discussion forums on crosses.net led me to a post by Honoria, whose post had her LJ URL. Roughly ten minutes after I understood what an LJ was, I was ready to become a paying customer. So in some ways, you could say that a Suzanne Vega CD caused me to post 700someodd diary entries for strangers to read. LJ, in turn, introduced me to Joseph Cornell's art (thanks to
My current goals for next year? To be a better person and a better lawyer. I need to do more to help, in every way, including not trying to help when help is not desired.
I have but one crowning skill, though--I'm a very quick study. I'm ready to open the page to next year, and hit "update journal!". Maybe next year I'll figure out how to post pictures, so that you guys can say "man, north Texas sure is flat, isn't it?"