"Don't look back, you can never look back."
Well, we’re still right in the thick of summer. It’s so strange, summer. The way the whole dynamic changes. And honestly, because so many things have been up in the air so much, I’ve been a lot more stressed out this summer than I normally am during school.
But finally, besides the fact that I’m not in my new place yet (it’s just getting fixed up) and I may be back to sleeping on the couch tomorrow, things feel much more settled. I’m on the kitchen staff at a small, family-owned Turkish restaurant, mopping and cooking gyros all day, and when I’m not doing that I’m either reading, getting together work to send out to literary journals, or trying to be as long-distance mobile as possible.
I headed up to Gaffney for a good time with good ol’ boys shooting guns, racing jeeps, and going fishing. I went to Charleston to see a public showing of Potemkin in the park and run around and go to the beach with Rob and Elizabeth, and then I went back to Knoxville for some time at home and to go to my childhood friend’s wedding.
And things are good. I’m very unsure with the way that my life will go in the next year, but things are very good right now.
Also, I made a list of the books that I've read, and the count is at 412, the most recent of which have been (since the last ones I mentioned) Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Ha Jin's Waiting, and Kakuzo Okakura's The Book of Tea.
But finally, besides the fact that I’m not in my new place yet (it’s just getting fixed up) and I may be back to sleeping on the couch tomorrow, things feel much more settled. I’m on the kitchen staff at a small, family-owned Turkish restaurant, mopping and cooking gyros all day, and when I’m not doing that I’m either reading, getting together work to send out to literary journals, or trying to be as long-distance mobile as possible.
I headed up to Gaffney for a good time with good ol’ boys shooting guns, racing jeeps, and going fishing. I went to Charleston to see a public showing of Potemkin in the park and run around and go to the beach with Rob and Elizabeth, and then I went back to Knoxville for some time at home and to go to my childhood friend’s wedding.
And things are good. I’m very unsure with the way that my life will go in the next year, but things are very good right now.
Also, I made a list of the books that I've read, and the count is at 412, the most recent of which have been (since the last ones I mentioned) Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Ha Jin's Waiting, and Kakuzo Okakura's The Book of Tea.