borrowed a banjo for the studio session, and put down a chicken-yard track on it. as long as i'm doing music, i can't seem to write poetry or the play. but i'm doing well with professional writing...it's coming out in torrents. so it's all esl & music these days.

it's cold again in illinois...the arena parking lot fills up with cars & hope for the spring tournament, though the b-ball salukis hit some turbulence. webheads wanted to know how to pronounce "illinois," but i've lived here so long i forgot. the central question, of course, is whether it starts with an "e"...it only has an "s" sound if it's plural...and how could there be two of them?

have to roll with the punches with using chat in the writing class...i sometimes feel i'm on their turf, i'm out of my league...and it may not work. it clearly works better for some than others. i should be mulling this over elsewhere, keeping work out of this realm, but it does seem a little creative, a little different, and, as it's going, a little less than on the mark. more on this later too.