Yesterday's writing
I spent three hours at Starbucks yesterday, I forgot to say. I switch up the locations if I’m going during the day, so as to avoid looking like a loser to other people and the people who work there. There’s no reason to go to the 24 hours one if it’s during the day. But still, I always go to Ventura boulevard locations because I like the diversity of the people who come in from all over the valley and I like being around people when I’m writing. I ended up having a phone conversation with my brother Daniel for most of the time, and afterwards I wrote some of what he said down. I wrote down segments of “Bert Soulcatcher” working title for the longer piece I’m trying to get together. I read 100 pages of East of Eden. So far I’ve caught 6-7 typo’s in my edition of the book and I’m on page 193. So far there’s a lot of violence in this book, it’s a little over the top. I skipped the opening chapter because it was full of discriptions of grass and hills and trees and stuff, but I dog eared the pages as a reminder for later. I’ll probably never read that opening chapter, like I did’nt read all those huge essay segments in War and Peace, but at least I know just in case. Most important thing is to be honest with yourself.
At around 4 o’clock I was 2 coffees deep on an empty stomach. I went to this bookstore on Van Owen and browsed it for about an hour and fifteen minutes. I picked up a beat-down old copy of Ulysses for a dollar. Gravity’s Rainbow was $5 so I couldn’t be bothered with it.
:I good day for now.
