Although two of my finals are total throwaways (Buddhist regurgitation and five-pages of rambling prose about art and war), I’m actually working on three projects I care a lot about. for school! yes!
One: my play. My first full-length, the first thing in a year that broke that awful self-consciousness I have about my work. I finished the final scenes last night, and they don’t stand up in quality to the rest of the work–but still, it’s all taken shape and now it’s just a matter of pinching here and sewing there.
Two: what had initially been intended as an analysis of abortion and the Catholic Voter in 2008 turned into a referendum on religio-political rhetoric focusing on the issue of abortion. So much fun! Really, it is! I just get to watch youtube videos of politicians talking all day and read editorials by people disagreeing about what the politicians are actually saying! That’s like, all I ever do anyway!
Three: Well, I haven’t quite started writing it, but preliminary research suggests that it’ll be right up my alley. A profile of The Weekly Standard from conception (1995) through the 2000 election, concentrating on the wonderfully smug neoconservative, Bill Kristol. I love my neocons.
And that’s all folks. Nothing matters, but this.
