procrastinating trauma & poppy's temper

I finished an annotated bibliography today and have one more to go. This second one is the more serious of the 2 and will be the heart of my trauma theory lit review. All summer I’ve been jazzed about reading the stuff, then kept letting myself be distracted by examples [most recently the Douglas Brinkley book I bought months ago] to apply the theory to, even though I haven’t read the cold, hard theory yet! Talk about belated immediacy…

In other news about texts and what people need to understand about NOLA, here is an excerpt from Poppy Z Brite’s post:

Something you need to understand, if you’re not in New Orleans or in unwilling exile from here: This is probably the worst, scariest, most unstable time for us since the immediate aftermath of the storm. It feels like we’ve reached an unsatisfactory plateau of progress, especially with Nagin back in office and not talking to us, and many of us are still waiting on insurance/FEMA/LRA while our homes sit and rot, and the one-year anniversary is coming up and we’ve all got to argue about how it should be observed the same way we had to argue about whether or not we should have Mardi Gras. Things are just going to get rawer and rawer and crazier and crazier in this town until August 29. I don’t know what’s going to happen after that, but until then, we don’t need people who don’t know what it’s like to be here SAYING SHIT TO US.

I haven’t read anyone as feisty, and legitimately so, since BitchPhD, and do I love it! I also cannot wait to read Brite’s new book, the third in the Rickey and G-man series,
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