mundane little lives

[gurdonark]

Today I got my project electronically transmitted to places it needed to be. I got out of the office at a reasonably decent hour,
and got by the out of the way branch to return the overdue library book. This month's Chess Life has a Duchamp cover and a Duchamp article--Duchamp of course threw over the grand illusion in favor of the royal game. Art may be art, after all, but chess is chess. I need to play in a chess tournament again. I miss that adrenalin rush when the two faced clock is ticking. I have a few more nervousness things to finish to catch up with all my exchanges, but a kind soul was complimentary about one of my pix and bad poems and bad art scrapbooks, so I feel pleased. I have so many things to accomplish tomorrow--my busy summer persists. Tonight the power went out at the office twice, but the storm never quite hit. I need to get busy ebaying off excess books. I also have a lot of my little fun projects in stasis, somehow, and I'm beginning to feel dynamic again. I noticed I got more done when I stopped in the dollar store more often. Could all my creativity be bound up in 99 cent purchases?

Comments

Chess Competition

[lonestarslp.livejournal.com]

I have a possible chess contender for you. He is waiting for the chess club to start at his elementary school but it hasn't yet. I'll bet in a few years he could give you a decent timed match.

Re: Chess Competition

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to play your chess titan any time he wishes to play. I'd also be willing to take him hiking, and promise that this time he won't kick a cactus.

[microbie.livejournal.com]

There's good stuff to be had in 99-cent stores. Plenty of inspiration, idea-generating stimuli.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly--idea stimulation, the sense that for nearly nothing one can get a sketchbook or crayons or a gift bag or some other neat thing.