where did i go?

Back on the paper trail. All day yesterday and this morning too. It takes hours because I read everything.

And when I’m through it doesn’t look like it.

Because instead of one big messy pile I now have piles of messy piles all to be dealt with: letters to answer, reviews to note, ideas to sort (Blogs, language, ideas, friends). But I must bake my Amish bread first.

Good thing I’m invited out for dinner in the building because I’m running out of energy—have run out..

The day is not over. (I wish!)

i fail words

I have spent a tiring day finally going through the piles of paper on my Paper Desk. Not finished yet but great inroads. I’m reading everything, of course, and making decisions. And then there will be the follow-ups to my decisions: sending stuff to like-minded friends, filing things for me or for my university, more for me and my friends these days, I’m afraid. My professional life is not of much interest to an academic public. I’m not very academic, nor am I commercial. I’m a mugwump.

I did find words among my papers—pages of them—to look up or re-look up, and words I’ve read before but never used, or very seldom. Recondite is one of them.

rec·on·dite|  adjective (of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse: the book is full of recondite information. DERIVATIVES. reconditely adverb reconditeness noun ORIGIN mid 17th century: from Latin reconditus ‘hidden, put away’, past participle of recondere, from re- ‘back’ + condere ‘put together, secrete’.

I understand why I have seldom used the word; I have no secrets. My ilfe is an open blog.

More to come.