i've recovered from the temporary loss of my front tooth, and i'm back to being fully inspired. i've been hanging out with natalie goldberg (via her book) and grading papers all weekend, and now i'm reading the blog of joy castro and being reminded that there are cool, progressive, literary voice out there, and i'm one of them. she is a new professor at unl, and she embodies everything that i was passionate about during my master's program: truth, women's experience, healing, and being critical of what's been established and open to what's coming up in the best of ways... wow, i'm excited. i've got my novel/memoir idea ready to write this summer, i'm going to the nebraska writer's conference, and i'm ready to roll... i've also bought art supplies and children's books to work on the children's book idea i have, but that has to be tabled in comparison to the 40-50 pages of novel i need to generate this summer to polish in a fiction writing in the spring to apply to the phd program.
yes, that's a whole bunch of planning (what's new?) also in exciting news, i'm going to amy's birthday bash in august and seeing her and all kinds of friends i haven't seen in two years, and that, like our trip to punxatawney, is truly worth writing about.
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