working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living

Just a note to say... I'm canning the clocking in / clocking out aspect of studying for my comps. I'm making myself insane, and really I'm reading more than eight hors a day but just not in single large chunks. Trying to fit everything in to a specific clocking in or clocking out is really just making me more anxious than is necessary.

from "Gold Man" by Elizabeth Brewster

I come from a country
of slow and diffident words
of broken rhythms
of unsaid feelings.

Next time I am born
I intend to come
from a different country.

concern over time lines

I seem to be only making it through about 100 pages of theory a day. This is pretty good for me, as far as theory is concerned, because I'm very very slow when it comes to non-fiction. And it takes time to make notes, and try to digest what I'm reading. But I'm still worried about how I'm going to get through all this criticism.

I think things will pick up when I get into the fiction again. Indeed, I know it will. But I still have my concerns.