Dec 20, 2009

Winding down 2009 and preparing for the rest of my life.

- I am in love.

- Today is my last day of 2009 in the Bay Area. This morning was my last morning in Oakland for 2009. Praise all that is good in this world.

- Tonight I drive home to Santa Clarita to see family. My sisters and I are all going to be under the same roof. This is very, very, very Good.

- Christmas is Thursday. The Nativity fast will be over. I'm eager for the birth of Christ.

- Michigan next week, then Chicago for a wedding, then Michigan. I get snow around Christmastime!! Be very jealous, please. Thank you.

 - My mouse is cooped up in my car today while I work.

- So are the flowers Zak bought me this week. I hope my mouse doesn't die of Lily poisoning. It would be ironic because her name is Lil which is short for Lily.

- I'm in love. This is first and last on my daily report. I am very much in love.

Dec 11, 2009

Done with Semester One

- A 1/4 of the way done with graduate school.

- The floor is covered in cookie crumbs. My dorm room windows are foggy.

- The Bay Area is cold and understands an inkling of winter: forty-two degrees this morning and I shivered in my blankets before remembering I had a thermostat. Temperature regulator.

- Jesus is on my bookshelf. He watches me sleep and sometimes it is comforting and sometimes I am afraid because he Knows. Whatever it is that I am always hiding. And I never know what I am hiding, for.

- It is easier to write when I am thinking. Today I am not because my fingers are cold.

- I want to live in the city. I want to live in the sometimes sun. I like our friends in the city. They are warm and memory and feel bless-ed ages even though it's only been since August. September. January. My life will be young when I am old.

- I said our because you are my home.

Dec 10, 2009

Things are very far between point A and point B and it is two (twenty-two) a.m. and I have yet to fall asleep.

I've been stuck in another world these past few days and have surfaced for air (once, twice) only briefly. Tomorrow I refuse to descend again. Tomorrow I'll write about tutors and teachers and students and make it a pretty triangle with something remarkable (?) at its core.

That is, if I can still think in the morning. Supposing I still have a mind for anything but small towns in Sicily and Biblical legends. I need some sleep.


Where are we? The dust has only just begun to fall.

Crop circles in the carpet.

Dec 9, 2009

I think everyone should know that I just impulsively researched cheap flights to Italy.

As soon as anyone has three thousand dollars they want to donate to the cause of a good fantasy novel, let me know.

I'm going to go plan other ridiculous adventures.

Dec 8, 2009

I am at school for writing. Can you really get a masters in Creativity?

This tonight is the end of a long day of story telling. I am used to tipping my nose in my tea. There is honey caked on my chin. A story has been written.

Maybe this time next year she'll be sitting on a shelf in a bookstore wanting somebody to love her and I will say, Ebony, my child, my prodigal. To be loved is not to be.

Today is a day I worry about me because I've been stuck in her world for nearly 24 joined hours. Zak called me today and I think he was worried because I was forgetting how to answer a phone. I had three missed texts before noon. There are no cell phones at sea.

And I said to my roommate, I have been writing all day. She said, that is why you are here.

30thousand to sit and write all day long. I just wish the money was going into my pocket, instead of out.
Someday.

Maybe next year when she's sitting on the shelf and I am telling her You are Loved, and she is smiling and saying, You too.

My tea is cold. Time to heat it up again.