Oh Louisiana, you saucy sweet lady you. Your simple siren song of daily rain, intoxicating showers and storms, and good food hypnotized me for five days, and I lost my way. That, or I got lazy and couldn't say no to my family, which is often the case for anyone when they visit home, isn't it?
My deepest apologies, dear cheerleaders. Only a gesture of the grandest magnitude could prove to you that such a foolish venture into the horse latitudes of writing will not be repeated again during this mad journey. What will that gesture be? I shall write 10,000 words today.
10000 WORDS, PEOPLE.
I have no idea how many pages that is, I've given myself over to word counts now, not page numbers.
I did manage to get a pathetic amount of writing done last Tuesday, let's observe those numbers.
Tuesday's Daily Goal: 2000
Tuesday's Word Count: 573 (oohhhohoh, the inflaming embarrassment)
Surplus/Deficit: -1427
Jim-eral Word Bank Account Holdings: 1493
During my senior year of high school, my AP art history teacher introduced our class to the word hubris, this term that means overweening pride. The Greeks, renowned for the prodigious contributions to the history of art (contra posto stance, anyone?), firmly believed that hubris was to be eyed, guarded, that too much hubris could lead to your downfall. I have learned my lesson. Stay tuned throughout the day, as I shall be posting much.
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Contrapposto, yes...
Believe it or not I actually used that word this week in reference to a large, gilded statue of Athena in the Parthenon replica here in Nashville. We are Art History geeks, aren't we?
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