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10 April 2005: I'm in a good mood today--although once again a workshop I was to conduct got cancelled for lack of interest. This time, though, three signed up for it. The previous time, only one did, and she did so late. We're going to try to do in again in June. Five students are required. True, I may be feeling good to have escaped having to perform again,
but while I do always dread any kind of performance, I do something like it four or five times a week as a substitute teacher, and am not that nervous about it. Most likely, my mood is due to being caught up with deadlines, and not having anything too wrong with me physically (pain-free water on the knee seems to be about it), for a change (though, actually, I haven't had anything seriously wrong with me probably ever).
I'm always feeling more and more enthusiastic about my computer situation. I'm feeling very good about the presentations I'm making with PowerPoint--not so much with them as they now are as with what I'm sure they will be. At a minimum, they will be warehouses of visual poems and related artworks. They'll also contain just about all my thinking about poetry--much of it from here, for yesterday I stored all my blog entries to date on a CD. Which reminds me of another of my causes for happiness: my laptop. Last week I used it several days at school, and got major presentation chores done on it while subbing. I plan now to make presentations out of material at my blog, something the CD I burned will allow me to do at school.
I got poor marks on the stupit aptitude tests I was given when I enlisted in the Air Force (to escape the draft, which was in effect then) except for administration. I scored the max on that. It would appear I do have a special talent for it, and I like putting things in order. So I'll have a lot of fun making these presentations, which will eventually cover all of poetry in English, if not more.
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