I’m always freaking busy

Posted on | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

• I think I promised less bullet points. I lied.
• David traveled to the steaming pile of swamp that is Florida to visit his family. He had an okay time, visited with old friends, hung out with the fam, got sunburned (although the claims he didn’t…. my man is very pale), and returned to civilization. I don’t think I can tempt him to go back. Because I’ve moved so much in my life, I understand that adage  -”You can’t go home again.”  I think he knew it all along, but his home is really in Portland, where we have good beer and nice weather. He thinks the weather sucks. I agree. We’re sticking to the west coast.
• It’s been raining like a motherfucker and I’ve used the heater twice in the last two months. There is something wrong with that.
• I got pierced again. My nose. Both sides. So now I match: my sister, my mother, my birthdaughter, my crit partner, and innumerable other people with their noses pierced.  Hardly anyone noticed. I figure it is for one or two reasons 1) They are very small and I have lots of freckles. 2) No one is really surprised by the fact that I got it done, and its almost expected. Either way, I like them.
• School starts again in 2 weeks. I am going to be spending a lot of class time with my mentor. He’s going to ding me for phoning in my submission for a story this time. Oh and the heroine is me, but way more badass. What evah.
• Money sucks.
• I have gotten some editing done of my first novel, and very few additional pages written. I have two weeks to shape up.
• Got to surprise a friend in Seattle for her birthday. It was brilliant. Then drove to another friend’s graduation (5 hours south the following morning), which was also brilliant. I spent most of Memorial Day weekend sleepy.
• Congrats Cat for getting your BA! HUZZAH!
• My sister heads to Colorado to visit Mom. It will be very nice when her divorce is final. Our family has been in limbo for too long. Everyone needs to figure out which relationships to nurture and which to abandon and move on. Gah, marriage is dumb sometimes.
• BTW, I’m still married, and happy. That was not a statement about marriage in general.
• My father may come to my graduation at SHU. I’m still working on that one emotionally. I haven’t seen him since I was 12. Yeah, it’s kinda crazy. Over two decades, and he’s going to come to one of the most emotionally taxing events in my life (I will cry again… I just know it). So, kind of putting that on the back burner to be dealt with later.
• I fly to PA in 2 weeks for WPF at SHU. I’m exicted. I’m nervous. I’m ready to graduate again. I think I need a break from school. Or do I? I’m so fucking indecisive.
• I have a fuckton of work to finish…so slacking ends now. Sigh.

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