I wrote ALL DAY yesterday and it was hurt-your-eyes sunny with all that ocean-side reflection. It was warm, even. To combat the desire to sit by the ocean and write lyrical poetry, I engaged the old coffee-shop-revolution academic-writing strategy, whereby you have a coffee, write for an hour, get distracted and then, instead of staying distracted and writing blog posts and FB stalking etc., you GET UP AND WALK TO THE NEXT COFFEE SHOP. Order a coffee, and get back down to work.Here is a list of the day's events:
8am: Blenz on Davie & Bute/ milk hot chocolate
12noon: Starbucks on Denman & Pacific/ coffee, fruit cup, various treats
1:30pm: Delany's on Denman/ americano
2:30pm (getting tired and antsy): Starbucks on Georgia and Denman/caramel frappucino
4pm: Dulcinea Cafe on Denman/coffee, chocolate cookie
as you can see, everything is pretty close together, and I find the brief walk between paragraphs is really useful for clearing my head.
Now that I have handed in the paper (yay!) I have like, two days off before starting the next one. I gifted myself the time to read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and I have also been checking up on my fav NZ designer, Karen Walker. Her eyewear collection is filled with the kind of tension only possible when you mix bauhaus with tortoise-shell. Also, the Catholic-icon inspired ads make me think of poor Cecilia Lisbon and in her sheared-off wedding dress. I kind of love how they manage to look like the virgin mary, cleopatra, and some sort of aztec coin simultaneously.
