Re: mysti's dirty dissertation dream
- From: "Melody Bynum" <melodyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: comptesol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:58:20 +0000
Mysti,
My first thought was Willie as well. I live in Austin and hear about him
all the time. I don't know what your specific dissertation topic is, but if
it is really the one you mention below about music all I can say is Wow.
What an idea. Good and creative ideas like that never surprise me coming
from you, not since your original assignment in the first class I had with
you. don's research class in which your final project was a play I believe.
I have had the panhandle dust in my nose . . .and in my dreams as well. The
way that you write is very inspiration. You can truly put words and picture
together. It is inspiring to me to read these email snippets from you
because after all the theory and other boring writing and reading that I am
doing (boring in the since. . .oh I am not going there. . . .you know what I
mean), I think I start to forget why I fell in love with words in the first
place.
I am all for communicating and receiving messages in dreams.. MOre than one
idea of mine has come from dreams or somewhere in that misty (no pun
intended) hazy place.
glad you are still pushing on with your dissertation.
all the best,
Melody
From: Leeann M Rudd <Mysti.Rudd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: comptesol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mysti's dirty dissertation dream
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:23:16 -0500
and by dirty i mean dirt--the red kind that blows around the high plains of
the panhandle of texas, lodging between your teeth, your nostrils, your
dreams.
You'll be pleased to know that I have found the ultimate efficient way of
communicating with one's dissertation director: by dream. yep, good ol mark
was in my dream last night, in his beautiful three-windowed office on the
third floor of sutton. anyway, he told me i need to interview
country-western singer songwriters in order to explore the role of
imagination in the creation of text, and that my big D wouldn't be complete
unless I interviewed "the Big One". But he didn't tell me who it was. So
does anyone want to venture a guess--my first thought was Willie
Nelson--but he could just as easily have meant Dolly Parton. And, of
course, whomever he meant is a stand in for whom I'm really supposed to
interview--maybe someone who actually knows something about retention--like
vincent tinto, or someone who looks like willie (with braids and all)--or
someone who shares his initials--W.N.
I wish I could say that I've been reading so much theory that i've gone
half crazy. (well I could say it, but it wouldn't be true.) But apparently
i spend my waking time in order to dream (Anyone who's ever read Dorothy
Bryant's "The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You" will know what i mean by
this). But remember, a dream is what led me to my dissertation director in
the first place, so why can't we communicate via dream sequences? it's even
more efficient than e-mail--especially when i gotta drive ten miles to find
a wireless coffee shop in order to gain internet access.
Tomorrow i drive 700 miles from amarillo to beaumont, after i take shorty
and kiva to the airport at 6 am. I will sing nearly half the way, trying
not to fall asleep, and when I think I can 't take it anymore, I'll turn on
the seat heater and primal scream about all the ducks in my life that just
won't line up.
Wish me luck. anyone who wants to call me will be paid 10 cents a minute.
Mysti
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From: Natalie Dorfeld <natalie_dorfeld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Mysti's Last, Last, Last Idea is a Poem
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:50:18 +0000
Hola, M --
Sweet poem. I?ve been reading a lot of Billy Collins lately.
Your book, Cunt, sounds very interesting. I?m sure it would make a for a
great coffee table centerpiece.
Incidentally, my initial dissertation title was going to be ?The
Bastardization of Academia,? or ?I am an Academic Prostitute.? Sadly, my
director said those weren?t appropriate. Oh, man.
Off to swim all day. What revisions?
-- Natzo
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