Holly (10:32:27 PM): please show me your poop!

Holly (10:32:36 PM): don't walk away from me!

Holly (10:33:02 PM): I'll call you, so you have to come back and pick up the phone!

Holly (10:33:13 PM): honey?

Holly (10:33:27 PM): please let me see your poop!

Holly (10:38:24 PM): here are the reasons why I think you should let me see your poop ( Read more... )

I got to meet Gabriel Gudding on wednesday (The Defense of Poetry and rhode island notebook). He's not as sarcastic as his poetry makes him out to be and he gave a solid reading of the the title poem from his first book. He almost cried before he read though. I think the turn out was surprising (certainly surprised me).

Tomorrow, Kathryn Cowles is ( Read more... )

So apparently when Dante Alighieri wrote The Inferno he got it completely wrong. The character Dante did not walk around with Virgil making poignant political commentaries on the residents of Hell. According to EA, Dante was, in fact, a sort-of Christian Bounty Hunter, traveling through Hell wielding a scythe he stole from Death and bring ( Read more... )

I got into the MA program.

Once again my GPA was 3.96 for the semester. God damn A-s.

I had two of my teeth out today. Two of them ( Read more... )

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance

-Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"

(Iambic Pentameter, unrhymed ( Read more... )

I am one paper and one final away from completing the English Major program at CSUS. Geez, doesn't feel like an accomplishment but it totally is.

We waggle through life like
straight laced honey bees,
and the moment we realize
why the map was made we
even try stinging the flowers
if it meant finding the X.