I'm coming out of my "omg thesis" mode a little - I did laundry and cleaned the bathroom today as well as organizing a handful of notes and grading the rest of my students' papers. I'm sure I'll fully relax back into general productivity right about the time I get this draft back from my committee and start revising. I'm trying to milk this brief ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I wound up watching Tyra Banks's show, and I made some notes about it. They are not particularly coherent and they're probably too blunt to really be polite, but here they are for kicks:

"Do you know how many things people could look at you right now and say?"
"Then they say it, they say 'em--"
"No, that's ugly! That's ugly ( Read more... )

I'm thinking that having all my poetry in a separate journal is a little overly complex, and it's about time to move it all into a community instead. This, however, brings me to a new conundrum: what to name said community. Faithful Readers will recall that I am very, very obsessive about names ( Read more... )

My store is closing. I should have a job until the end of April. I will have one year left in school at that point, and one summer before I start teaching, so ... say fifteen months. I need to find a job I can handle for fifteen months. One that will work around my school schedule and still leave me time for the things I'm pursuing on my own - I do ( Read more... )

I went and talked to my adviser yesterday before my poetry workshop. I went into this meeting knowing I have only 4 required classes left and three semesters to take them (and of course my thesis hours, but I'm not counting those). I had chosen the poetry workshop (with Kay, the teacher I like, hooray) and picked out two other courses I was ( Read more... )

I miss Sami. My best friend, my muse - it sucks that we aren't wandering around at night being crazy poets and winos together anymore. I don't think I've even seen her since Adam's birthday, like, three months ago. Sadface ( Read more... )

Rachel is on her way down here; I am awake (against my will) and eating breakfast (kinda). I worked out a payment plan with UNO so I actually have money for things like groceries and such for the next couple of weeks, which is very good news. My schedule at work looks pretty nice, and I should have my first paper written by next weekend (aka, ( Read more... )

"One Song Glory" from RENT is one of my favorite songs of all time. The lyrics are simple but incredibly evocative, and the guitar music behind it is haunting. And the whole message of the song, the quest to write one perfect song before the inevitable and looming death, resonates with me. I mean, I'm a poet. Take a quick survey of the poets you ( Read more... )

I went running yesterday, then started feeling not great last night and am officially sitting around in a robe coddling my sad tummy today ( Read more... )

All this time to make amends ( Read more... )