September 30, 2019

Katie came to class to talk about the parameters of production. A single student in that class causes there to be two of every message, because she has registered from another program; is startled by every message because she wonders what she personally has done wrong, when in fact everybody in class receives the same message;  she has to be comforted on this matter every time; leaves class for some reason every twenty minutes or so, and sits at the back so she has to plow through everybody to get to the door; has to have the lights a certain way or she hears a disturbing buzz which she can’t ignore; has to have the print on the screen so big that we can see only one line at a time, and can’t move closer to the screen because things get blurry; has taken the course twice; the play she has been writing for two years is about a woman with a host of disabilities who is nevertheless so beloved that people put up with her neediness.

Blessed, if brief, storm of rain.