2. Read Geek Love instead of finishing The Rachel Papers and The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and starting a million other poetry books stacked on the shelf (although I did manage somehow to finish the fourth season of Scrubs).
3. Determined my thesis to be essentially done.
4. Did not call any of my far-away friends even though I think about them a lot (see also #1).
5. Cleaned four (new) garbage bags' worth of clothes and shoes from the closet so that the doors fit on their tracks again.
6. Organized my many many t-shirts by color, just to see what they'd look like, and OCD'ed myself out. (Please note that the shirts at the far left are polo shirts, not tees, and thus were immune from the rainbowin'. So are sweaters and anything with long sleeves, and if it helps redeem me, I still keep all my unpaired socks jammed in a tupperware container that sits on the floor. And my good heels are smushed alongside old running shoes in a milk crate next to them.)
7. Ignored student papers.
8. Learned that "In Which Christina Pretends Different Kinds of Alcohol Are Men and She is Seeing Them All" was chosen as a finalist for the 1st Annual Poetry Southeast Award (see also here, and please ignore that their ellipses are poorly placed and thus make the poem title appear to be "In Which Christina Imagines...", which sounds like a poem about unicorns and world peace, and also that they posted my rarely-used middle name so that I really look like a unicorn-riding, world-peace dreamin' fool).
9. Watched The Science of Sleep and Stranger Than Fiction twice each.
10. Blogged.
Excellent News!
ReplyDeleteAlthough, whatever, you did too write about unicorns… Heck, you probably wrote about pink moons and tangerine bunnies. Admit it. Because you could write on such subjects and write on them so well that you are chosen as an award winner or finalist.
I’d love to attend your thesis reading (and other thesis readings) but I think my thesis reading is on April 20th and then there are other readings before and after that weekend. But I might be able to make a MN trip the weekend before (the 14th?).
Congrats!
ReplyDelete"Christina Imagines..." sounds like it ought to be some weekly "Color Me Happy" type feature. Like, it'll say, "Christina imagines... babies!" and there will be a picture of your face smiling cheerily.
I think you should totally do that.
Now that's just too close to Mrs. O'Brien's "Natural Highs" list that we were supposed to populate but always ended up full of items like "Knitting a tiny sweater for your grandchildren!" or "Snuggling with your sixty-year-old husband!"
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So... you're saying that's a reason not to do it?
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