Up 6:30.
Counted up open tabs on laptop & phone. One goal going forward is to have fewer at the end of each day.
Started day at 8. Made coffee. Form notes, 10 songs - even T-Bone Walker recorded the occasional 32-bar pop song (“I Know Your Wig Is Gone”). Killed some email. Listened to Fred Hersch and Sara Gazarek doing a medley of a Sara Teasdale poem (“Dreams”) and “Darn That Dream.”
Read to the end of ch. in Slobin.
First walk outside.
Worked 10:30-12:45. Just getting past the graf that’s been hanging me up.
FB chat w/ an English acquaintance, Stephen Plummer. The pubs aren’t all closed there - law won’t allow it?About an hr. helping Bree reorganize some cabinets. (Intentionally devoting some time to ordinary/neglected domestic tasks - 1 small project or chunk thereof daily, if poss.)
Read more Slobin, over lunch.
2 LEAR poems.
Online for a while.
4:30. Finished the Slobin book - less concerned w/ global folk music’s commercialization, in the pop music sense, than its relationship to institutional circuits and system (the Folk Alliance, UNESCO). Occasionally insistent on terms like “homespun,” “handmade,” but I guess you wouldn’t go into the field if you didn’t have a -little- of that.
2nd walk.
Ordered overpriced rubbing alcohol from an eBay gouger.
5:3--7 - some email, virus articles and a survey, a few Carla Bley songs online.
20 p. Drew Milne.
Dinner.
Finished the Fred Allen movie w/ Bree.
Read 2/3 of a long (50 p.) journal article on “barbershop harmony.”
Nothing significant after 10. Lights out 11.