Just got to my dorm at UCLA I’m doing a ‘residency’ here where they are going to help me create a play out of “Sane New World” and I get the use of all the film departments animators, digital and film people to create the visuals so it’s not just one woman up there (me) but a whole visual feast.
I wanted to get into school here 150 years ago but I was too stupid (low SAT scores) I guess I’m a late bloomer. I went to the Student Union yesterday and pretended to blend in; I bought neuroscience books like I was going to class to study it. Just before I left the UK I was seriously pimping my book (Sane New World-a plug) because this is like my baby and I want it to live and grow up. I started to go to bookshops with little cards that publicized my own book, they looked at me with pity and awe thinking, “Who does this?” I suppose I got this drive from my immigrant ancestors who had to be pushy to get out whatever ghetto they lived in; quick scuttling across borders to get away with piano’s on their backs. Well, for me it’s the same sense of survival but I have my book on my back.
This campus is like Eden with giant trees, emerald lawns, miles of sports fields, hunky football players called the Bruins, sculptures and grand gothic buildings for the study of every subject known to man. There are lots of Oriental people who are born with IQ’s in the thousands and me. My parents who thought I was retarded should spin like Dervishes in their graves. I’m going to start Monday so I’m off to buy pencils and a ruler.
This campus is like Eden with giant trees, emerald lawns, miles of sports fields, hunky football players called the Bruins, sculptures and grand gothic buildings for the study of every subject known to man. There are lots of Oriental people who are born with IQ’s in the thousands and me. My parents who thought I was retarded should spin like Dervishes in their graves. I’m going to start Monday so I’m off to buy pencils and a ruler.
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