Just about a week left at the Institute. Though I pine for more regular human contact, the amount of work I’m able to get done in isolation is unparalleled. Having gotten as far as I can in the first venture I’ve tackled in Santa Fe, I’m beginning another new play that is calling for a hefty amount of research. The last project sent me into the depths of 19^th Century romantic French literature, whereas this one has more the feeling of modern histories, controversial political analyses, and a healthy sprinkling of faux-non-fictional adventure narratives.

I feel very lucky to have friends of varying expertise to go to for suggestions of source material. Although I find us diverging into specialties at an alarming rate (how is it I don’t know of the financial models my friend in finance refers to?), I’m lucky to know people game to send me to the principles of Fair Use, or the latest post-colonial text shaking things up. 

Other activities this last week in Santa Fe include: beginning my travel plans to Guca, Serbia next August for the 50^th Anniversary of the largest Balkan brass festival in Europe, planning a Playwright Bake-Off for Orientation Week, getting into gear for my duties as Cultural Coordinator for the UCSD grad student body of 8,000, and going to see a 50 foot marionette named Zozobra burn tonight in the town plaza. 

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