Here's my other piece of exciting news: my chapbook was selected as co-winner of the Editor's Prize and will be published by Seven Kitchens Press!

F and I slept in till almost 9:00 yesterday morning before we went for a jog. I made him follow my normal route so we wouldn't go too far like we sometimes do when he picks the route ( Read more... )

Yoga # 59 ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to a vinyasa flow class at StaSu Yoga! So exciting ( Read more... )

I worked on writing yesterday morning and again this morning. (I did yoga Tuesday night, so I put Wednesday morning's yoga time towards writing, and Thursday morning's yoga time has theoretically always been for writing because of flamenco Thursday night.) I opened the notebook. I typed up some things that sort of resemble poems. One of them ( Read more... )

Friday: out to dinner with Rose and Lauren. Rose suggested we go to Exton but wouldn't pick a specific restaurant, so Lauren just googled "restaurants in Exton" and picked one. Their menu was online and sounded really good. The place ended up being nowhere near downtown Exton, but the food was really really good and we had a nice time ( Read more... )

Last night I ( Read more... )

Last night I stayed up til midnight talking to F (need to stop *doing* that!), so I was ridiculously tired this morning. Dragged my sorry self out of bed at 6:35, so I was already running late for my train, and then I had a terrific poem idea in the shower. This one had been percolating for a while, and then it suddenly dawned on me, so I had to ( Read more... )

I got my financial assistance letter from the Key West Literary Seminar today. I gots money!! I'm so excited. I can definitely go, and it's affordable, and I'll share a room with Heather, and I'm in Bich Nguyen's nonfiction workshop which I'm so happy about. This gives me first of all a good excuse to buy her book, and secondly an excellent and ( Read more... )

Last night I got serious and cleaned the apartment. Vaccuumed the whole place, scrubbed the bathroom, mopped the kitchen and bathroom. And then put everything back where it's supposed to go. Then after that I got to feeling really really really sad, most of which was cat-related. For the record, talking to my mom about the cat is Not Helping. ( Read more... )