Sunday, September 07, 2003
has anyone read the piece about nell freudenoidenoidenberger/burger on salon? this young woman who was an assistant at the new yorker and was included in last summer's debut issue and apparently is hot and got a giant advance for her unwritten novel?
we graduated from college in the same year. i'm afraid she's now on the zadie smith list of people who i am, it's turning out, not going to grow up to be.
in fact, the journalist who wrote the piece mentioned he struggled with a similar envy and dismay, and had also graduated from college in 1997, and then i thought:
i don't even write as good as this journalist.
fine. i guess curtis sittenfeld goes on the list too, god damn him.
i've made so many promises to myself about the writing and my upcoming free time. but i've never in the past been good with discipline, so . . . am i heading for a weasel-filled pond of despair? or maybe i should be auditioning instead.
god knows that's never disappointing.
the monkey does not dissapoint. absence makes the heart wake up. but he's got a lot of work to do, and . . . well, that discipline thing is a problem we share, so . . .
sigh. but i'm pulling up stakes pretty well. i think.
we graduated from college in the same year. i'm afraid she's now on the zadie smith list of people who i am, it's turning out, not going to grow up to be.
in fact, the journalist who wrote the piece mentioned he struggled with a similar envy and dismay, and had also graduated from college in 1997, and then i thought:
i don't even write as good as this journalist.
fine. i guess curtis sittenfeld goes on the list too, god damn him.
i've made so many promises to myself about the writing and my upcoming free time. but i've never in the past been good with discipline, so . . . am i heading for a weasel-filled pond of despair? or maybe i should be auditioning instead.
god knows that's never disappointing.
the monkey does not dissapoint. absence makes the heart wake up. but he's got a lot of work to do, and . . . well, that discipline thing is a problem we share, so . . .
sigh. but i'm pulling up stakes pretty well. i think.
