To begin....

I'm sitting in my office deciding what to do before I go home. I am so ridiculously tired that I can barely string together three words without having to stop to make sure that I am following a coherent train of thought. I was hoping to start the letter I want to send to query publicists about the Gulistan, but there's no way that's going to happen. So I am instead sitting here writing my first blog entry just to see what it looks like and to decide if I really want to do this. Were I less tired, it would be interesting to try to synthesize here what I learned from the talk I gave about the Gulistan, and so I think I will reserve judgment. I miss keeping a journal, I am realizing, as I write this, and I am wondering why this feels so much more natural to me than writing by hand. I used to love to sit with my notebook and write and write and write. Now, for some reason, I can't bring myself (can't discipline myself is perhaps more accurate) to do that, and I am wondering how this will work if I try to write here as if it were a journal, as if it were that private--because a blog, of course, is not.