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Once again, I return at long last to update.

It's been an eventful period.  I've made the decision to stay on with my present employer until May of next year and return to North Carolina at that time.  There are various factors I'll happily delineate for the curious, but the reasons are all solid.  I believe I'm doing the right thing, though it does ( Read more... )

Hi, all --

I'd normally go on about how sorry I am to have missed a couple of days, and I really am sorry that I haven't posted much, but let's just say that this weekend hasn't exactly gone as I'd envisioned.  I lost my wits completely yesterday because I couldn't write a single line of poetry -- whatever I touched came out terrible, whether it ( Read more... )

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Hello, all -- I slept well, woke up at 6:30 without the alarm and am presently working on my second cup of coffee.  Today appears to be shaping up rather well.  I have funds in my savings and checking accounts, get paid tomorrow, and I'm as current on my bills as I could hope to be at this point.  I did forget to send along two payments, but I'm ( Read more... )

...again, barely, but at least I made it here before noon.

I got about nine hours of sleep last night, which was awesome and, upon waking, checked the posting of Golden Girl to see if anyone had hacked it to pieces.  (I can't help being nervous about it -- after all, it's the first free verse poem I've written that demonstrates such a clarity of ( Read more... )

The title of Sylvia’s next incarnation is Golden Girl.  Those who read this journal regularly may recall my posting one of Sylvia’s poems under an entry entitled “Now this is a nice poem…” or something similar.  I was thinking of that poem as I wrote, as well as Sylvia’s own predilection for luminous, subtle description.  My goal - and I think I ( Read more... )

I hope you'll forgive my recent absence.  It's been a holiday weekend, and a busy one; but even more than that, I've more or less had my head spinning with the after-effects of being able to look at my own work and critique it for the first time ever.  It's not that I wasn't critical about it before -- not badly, I mean, but critical constructively ( Read more... )

I thought I’d post a short update, mainly because I missed my opportunity this morning, but also to complain about how little sleep I actually got last night.  (I didn't get to sleep until about 4:15 a.m.)  I suppose it’s to be expected that I should remain insomniac on some level, even if my trouble sleeping happens only rarely.  I’m grateful for ( Read more... )

 I'm not doing as well as I thought I'd be doing today.  Not only was I overly irritated this morning by a fairly loud telephone conversation, but I'm not handling the random "from every direction" tasks as well as I feel I should.  Historically I have had difficulty doing so but, since beginning the "before-bed" regimen of my medicine, it's been ( Read more... )