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I had a really nice day...meeting with Contemporary Jewish Museum person about a Torah installation-exhibit-experience-thing (TEA AND EXTENDED WITTERING ABOUT TORAH), writing at Drisha (QUOTA THWACK), free bagel for lunch (JEWS), more writing (HA QUOTA I AM YOUR MASTER), trip to art shop (SPARKLY GEL PENS), nice walk through park (DOGS AND RANDOM BAGPIPE PLAYER, AWESOME), encouraging phone convo with colleague (EATING CHERRIES), more writing (SRSLY QUOTA HAH).
Had to start a new quill, which I'm not all that fond of - every time you sharpen your quill you shave a little bit off it, right? So eventually you've shaved the whole thing away and you have to get a new feather and start again? That was today.
Cutting a quill is a lot like teaching a class - you get used to how it handles and you learn how to make it do what you want, and then whoomph, your time's up and you have to get used to a whole new one. It's quite similar in most ways, but if you assume it'll be exactly the same you're going to have a tough time working with it, so you have to remember that while you're getting used to it. And that takes a little while at the best of times, so you go through a couple of hours where you're not sure if you cut it badly or if you're just having trouble adjusting, and by this point in my career I expect that, but it's still not something I look forward to. Happily I only have to do it about once in six weeks, and I can deal with that really.
Had to start a new quill, which I'm not all that fond of - every time you sharpen your quill you shave a little bit off it, right? So eventually you've shaved the whole thing away and you have to get a new feather and start again? That was today.
Cutting a quill is a lot like teaching a class - you get used to how it handles and you learn how to make it do what you want, and then whoomph, your time's up and you have to get used to a whole new one. It's quite similar in most ways, but if you assume it'll be exactly the same you're going to have a tough time working with it, so you have to remember that while you're getting used to it. And that takes a little while at the best of times, so you go through a couple of hours where you're not sure if you cut it badly or if you're just having trouble adjusting, and by this point in my career I expect that, but it's still not something I look forward to. Happily I only have to do it about once in six weeks, and I can deal with that really.
From: (Anonymous)
Quill was working nicely when you came to Montreal
Beth Blackmore