The View Up Here

According to this article on english.chosun.com, Korean kids don't get enough sleep. The final paragraph is of special interest: The research team said, "We found that the more hours the children spend at private cramming institutes, the less satisfied they and their parents are with their performance; and the more obese the children are, the fewer hours they sleep." "Special attention is needed, because sleep deprivation has negative effects such as diseases, psychological instability, poor performance, and stunted growth," it warned.

I'm excited to start 2009 with a TV spec script that I developed over the last month. I'll have a few days at the Constance Saltontall Foundation for the Arts colony in a couple weeks to get started on that script. I also plan to finish a solid first draft of "Beauty Is..." my coming-of-age mystery set in 1953. I'm stoked to be teaching 2 sections of Advanced Screenwriting at Ithaca College, and one section of Short Narrative Fiction (screenwriting) at Tompkins Cortland Community College. I'm hoping this will the beginning of a fruitful relationship with TC3 as they grow their screenwriting program. I have relocated my home office into a much more suitable space for yours truly, leaving my husband with the spare room for his office. It's much warmer out here, for one thing, and the chi just seems to be more conducive to my creative dedication. Recently, I reconnected with one of my college roommates, who lives not so far from Ithaca. She told me the othe...