Visited Lane. She's lost a tooth, one that was damaged 19 years ago and has lasted this long. We watched "Ghost in the Shell 2" -- which is surprisingly saavy on robot issues. The references to Hans Bellmer and Donna Haraway in particular grabbed my attention and gave a tight squeeze.

How do you manage a project that you know will take another 300 hours? You can't blitzkrieg -- it'll kill you. You can try to string it out in regular increments -- but it will frequently get trumped by more pressing matters. Furthermore, learning isn't a matter of absorbing units in my case; it's problem-solving on an active project. So the rhythm of progress is necessarily one of running into road-blocks, having a fallow period, and then getting an inspiration about how to move forward. This applies to both the Lovecraft and the YL work. I'm beginning to wish there was some way I could be more collaborative in my process -- social interaction is a very good way to stay in track. Haven't decided what that would look like, though.

YL writing has been picking up. I've taken some advice from the Drawing Studio class we took this spring and lowered my standards. I recently posted to Generator for the first time in 16 months. As soon as I write up a blurb about my new writing philosophy for that blog, I intent to post at least the 19 essays I've written since last September. [I've got more, in various states. The 19 are just particularly well organized and ready to go.]

Tomorrow: going to PSU with G, doing more library research for YL purposes.