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Ab – Week 9 Logs.

Week 9:

Monday, May 27

1 hour – read conclusion to Neuro

1 ½ hours – wrote and posted Neuro Reverie on conclusion.

1 hour – looked up Vanessa Place’s Statements of Facts. Found an interesting review on Jacket2.

½ hour – read over previous self-evaluations from fall and winter quarter. Started to write spring quarter evaluation.

Tuesday, May 28

2 hours – Last seminar on Perloff and Neuro.

2 ½ hours – rallying in solidarity with the Student Support Services at Evergreen.

½ hours – meeting with Sarah about project.

2 hours – drafting self evaluations.

½ hours – developing ideas for presentation.

Wednesday, May 29

THE BOOK AS ARRIVED

1 ½ hours – worked on self evaluations

1 ½ hours – artist lecture series.

½ hours – posted anthology to blog, up dated ILC on blog, turned in hard copy of book to faculty.

Thursday, May 30

6 hours – writing self evaluation.

1 ½ hours – editing Rukha’s term paper.

Friday, May 31

4 ½ hours – writing self-evaluations and faculty evaluations.

Saturday, June 1

worked all day.

Sunday, June 2

2 hours – working on presentation.

Weekly Total: 29 hours

Cumulative Totals: 318 hours

Ab – Week 8 Logs.

Week 8:

Monday, May 20

2 hours – Identifying and putting away type at Sherwood Press.

4 ½ hours – working on anthology in Indesign.

Tuesday, May 21

2 ½ hours – seminar on last chapters of Neuro and Perloff. Student’s sharing their work.

2 ½ hours – making detailed edits to anthology in Indesign. Started to play with cover design.

½ hours – met with Sarah about anthology, came up with frontice piece for book.

1 hour – met with Sara Martin about anthology and classes for next year.

1 hour – writing Neuro reverie.

Wednesday, May 22

6 ½ hours– working on cover and anthology in Indesign, watching tutorials on how to navigate Indesign.

½ hour – met with Ryan who showed me some tools in Photoshop.

1 hour – playing with cover image in Photoshop.

Thursday, May 23

4 ½ hours – looking over anthology, playing with cover designs in Photoshop and Indesign.

2 hours – guest speaker Eirik Steinhoff.

4 ½ hours – finalizing cover in Indesign with help from Katie.

Friday, May 24

4 hours – FINISHED THE BOOK! finalized cover, uploaded and published book to Lulu.com, made purchase of 50 copies!! got reimbursement receipt taken care of.

Saturday, May 25

worked all day, then rested.

Sunday, May 26

Worked all day, then rested.

Weekly Totals: 37 hours

Cumulative Totals: 289 hours

Ab – Week 7 logs.

Week 7:

Monday, May 13

1 hour – looking up Kenny Goldsmith’s Traffic and Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend.

1 ½ hours – putting away type at Sherwood Press.

1 ½ hours – adding bibliography to anthology, figuring out footnotes/endnotes for quotes.

1 ½ hours – writing and posting Neuro reverie.

Tuesday, May 14

2 ½ hours – Seminar on Perloff and Neuro, students sharing poetry and projects.

½ hour – meeting with Sarah, going over feedback for anthology.

2 hours – making small edits on the anthology: consistancy with pronouns, numbering peoples quotes, adding Buhner to Introduction.

1 hour – Meeting about Slightly West budget.

½ hour – getting image of neuro map onto cover.

Wednesday, May 15

1 hour – scanning submissions for SW and making a calendar for next year.

2 ½ hours – working on anthology in Indesign.

1 hour – watching Indesign tutorials.

Thursday, May 16

4 hours – working along side Indesign tutorials and formatting anthology.

1 ½ hours – reading Neuro ch. 7

Friday, May 17

5 ½ hours – working on anthology in Indesign.

½ hours – editing anthology according to Sarah’s feedback.

Saturday, May 18

worked all day

Sunday, May 19

½ hours – finished reading Neuro.

Weekly Total: 28½ hours

Cumulative Totals: 216 hours.

Ab – Week 6 Logs.

Week 6:

Monday, May 6

1 hour – sorting type at Sherwood Press

1 ½ hours – revising mid-quarter evaluation.

½ hour – writing reverie on Neuro chapter 5

½ hour – looking over anthology, adding class bibliography.

Tuesday, May 7

2 ½ hours – Guest speaker Susan Gevirtz (so great!)

1 hour – looking up recommended anthologies from Susan, San Francisco State University Poetry Center and Mills College.

½ hour – mid quarter evaluation with Sarah.

2 hours – starting to format the anthology in Indesign.

½ hours – check in meeting with Sara Martin on anthology.

Wednesday, May 8

2 hours – watching Indesign tutorials.

1 ½ hours – artist lecture: Susan Gevirtz on gender and genera.

Thursday, May 9

4 ½ hours – watching Indesign tutorials and playing with anthology format in Indesign.

½ hours – reading Neuro Ch. 6

Friday, May 10

4 hours – working on anthology in Indesign

1 ½ hours – reading Neuro

Saturday, May 11

½ hours – looking up Yoko Tawada and Caroline Bergvall

Sunday, May 12

2 hours – Finished Unoriginal Genius!!!!

Weekly Totals: 24 ½ hours

Cumulative Totals: 187 ½ hours

Ab – Week 5 Logs.

Week 5:

Monday, April 29

3 hours – added images into anthology, read about formatting, printed draft.

2 hours – peer review session. Talked about our understanding/confusion of The Midnight.

1 hour – revising final seminar pass.

Tuesday, April 30

7 hours – Tuesday core component: morning lecture, seminar on Howe and Neuro, guest poet Lucia Perillo.

1 hour – anthology: removing images, brainstorming ideas on use of images.

Wednesday, May 1

3 hours – Anthology: revising, adding table of content, figuring out quote markers.

1 ½ hours – Artist lecture: Stokley Towles (so good!).

2 ½ hours – Reading Slightly West submissions, attending budget hearing, group meeting, scanning in submissions.

½ hours – drafting academic statement.

Thursday, May 2

½ hour – replying to seminar passes online.

2 ½ hours – drafting mid-quarter evaluation.

½ hour – sherwood press.

1 ½ hours – reading Unoriginal Genius (good chapter!)

Friday, May 3

3 ½ hours – Working on anthology. Alphabetizing poems, revising introduction, adding images, playing with formatting.

½ hour – reading Neuro

Saturday, May 4

1 hour – reading Neuro ch. 5

Sunday, May 5

½ hour – reading Neuro

1 ½ hours – revising mid quarter evaluation.

Weekly Totals: 33 ½ hours

Cumulative Totals: 164 hours

Week 4 Logs.

Week 4:

Monday, April 22

½ hour – touching up draft of Seminar Pass.

6 ½ hours – drafting sections of anthology/touching up introduction.

2 hours – Peer review and somatic exercise.

½ hour – revising draft of Seminar Pass and posting to forum.

Tuesday, April 23

1 hour – posting weekly logs to eAlphabet.

5 ½ hours – Core component: lecture on Perloff talking about Howe’s The Midnight, meanings matter: minds mediation by/through objects. Performance: Russian poetry. Seminar on Perloff/Neuro, renegotiating class schedule.

4 hours – revising/and drafting anthology.

½ hour – meeting with contract sponsor.

1 hour – reading The Midnight.

Wednesday, April 24

1 hour – reading The Midnight.

3 ½ hours – anthology work, “cementing” in quotes.

1 ½ hours – Artist lecture: Eirik Steinhoff.

Thursday, April 25

4 hours – Anthology. Moving through the sections adding quotes and tying them together. Sent out “last-call” for papers and poems.

2 ½ hours – reading The Midnight

½ hour – reading aloud anthology.

Friday, April 26

½ hour – making small edits to anthology.

Saturday, April 27

½ hour – adding in more quotes and dialogue.

½ hour – finished reading The Midnight

Sunday, April 28

2 ½ hours – reading Neuro

1 ½ hours – writing seminar pass.

4 ½ hours – working on anthology: finishing out the last two steps in the first section, writing preface to part two, selecting work from reveries and poetry, looking up images for cover art inspiration.

Weekly Totals: 44 ½ hours

Cumulative Totals: 130.5 hours

Ab – Week 3 Logs.

Week 3:

Monday, April 15

2 hours – organizing type at Sherwood Press.

2 hours – peer review and yoga.

½ hour – editing seminar pass.

1 ½ hours – talking about and further planning the anthology.

½ hour – finding and posting a new letter image for the blog.

1 ½ hours – working on anthology.

Tuesday, April 16

6 hours – Tuesday core component. Susan Howe lecture and recitation of students work, seminar on Susan Howe’s “My Emily Dickinson” and “Neuro” chapter 2.

1 hour – Meeting with Sara Martin to discuss anthology.

½ hour – reading essays for anthology material.

1 hour – reading Material Feminism (introduction.)

Wednesday, April 17

1 hour – Participated in the Calculated Poetics variation on “Excerscises In Style.”

3 ½ hours – anthology: reading students poetry and drafting introduction.

2 hours – reading The Elements Of Typographic Style (Chapters 1 & 4)

Thursday, April 18

4 hours – anthology: reading students poetry writing draft of introduction.

1 ½ hours – reading Unoriginal Genious

2 ½ – putting away type at Sherwood Press.

Friday, April 19

½ hour – posting new letter to eAlphabet

½ hour – reading Unoriginal Genious

2 ½ hours – revising introduction.

Saturday, April 20

1 hour – revising introduction and beginning to draft the Holdgrege sections.

2 ½ hours – writing draft of part one in the anthology.

Sunday, April 21

3 hours – reading: Unoriginal Genious and Neuro, Ch. 3

4 ½ hours – revising introduction for anthology and part of section 1.

2 hours – writing seminar pass.

Weekly Total: 47 ½ hours

Cumulative Totals: 86 hours

 

Ab – Week 2 Logs.

Week 2:

Monday 8 – Wednesday 10

Field trip to Hoh Rainforest and Copper Canyon Press.

Thursday, April 11th

2 ½ hours – reading and taking notes/creating prompts for poems.

2 hours – working on the anthology.

Friday, April 12th

½ hour – working on anthology.

Saturday, April 13th

3 hours – reading My Emily Dickinson.

Sunday, April 14th

3 ½ hours – reading My Emily Dickinson.

2 ½ hours – reading Neuro.

1 ½ hours – writing seminar pass.

Weekly Total: 15 ½ hours

Cumulative Total: 38 ½ hours

Ab – Week 1 Logs.

Week 1:

Monday, April 1

3 hours – reading Neuro and Perloff.

1 hour – writing seminar pass

½ hour – researching poet from Perloff.

2 hours – peer review session.

Tuesday, April 2

6 hours – core component. Lecture and seminar.

1 hour – reading essays for anthology.

Wednesday, April 3

2 hours – working on anthology. Reading poetry/essays/plugging into template.

½ hour – creating a weekly outline of goals for the anthology.

½ hour – Slightly West meeting.

Thursday, April 4

2 hours – plugging poetry and essays into template.

Friday, April 5

1 ½ hours – reading

Saturday, April 6

packing for field trip

Sunday, April 7

Packing for field trip

Weekly Total: 20 hours

Cumulative Total: 23 hours