1. What I Got Done

• Lots of reading. Halfway through The Gutenberg Elegies.

• First draft of the third manifesto. One more revision and I'll post it up.

• While researching for wedding invites (we're making our own) discovered a way to perforate paper myself using a special rotary knife and a straight-edge.

• Continued to scope out pricing/labeling guns. Looks like a $60-$100 investment and might be tricky to make it work properly on the fly.

2. What I Am Going to Do

• "Language and Silence" by George Steiner and "Behavior in Public Spaces" by Erving Goffman both arrived today from Powell's. It's much more satisfying not to deal with library books, finally free to annotate and highlight. I'll tackle the latter next.

3. Unexpected Problems; Outstanding Risk

• Risk, as always, that I have left the production stage of the thesis too late. And yet the conceptual work is so thrilling at the moment I am very hesitant to stop the run of ideas I've been having just to build something just for its own sake.

4. Insights / Surprises

• Lots, mainly to do with the importance of imagination when experiencing a physical space, and the role that the process of reading might play in that experience.

• As I wrote: "That resonance does not preclude one's imagination. In fact, it depends on it. The power that emerges when words resonate with a particular location is merely the same power that all words hold – the power to evokes dreams, reverie, and thought – released from the traditional boundaries of the printed page. In doing so we enhance our experience of both the word and the world ... a book read in a particular place might represent the ultimate virtual reality, providing not only the tangible experience of the real but also, just as importantly, the opportunity to dream."