Yogurt is the official food of women. (via MeFi)

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, if you're more of a lurker, or if we already know everything about each other.

( meme )

I'll be driving to Tennessee from New Hampshire at the end of the month and will need some new tunes (audio books can only go so far). Recently I've enjoyed Vampire Weekend, Jenny Lewis and The Decemberists. Who else should I get?

I just placed a reprint of my poem "Variations on Pablo Neruda" with Umbrella.

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Words I love: cleverdick, straight-facedly, bonhomous, plug-ugly, hornswoggled.

I've managed to work two of them into my most recent story (one of them as a character name) and am planning to use the others sometime soon.

Alan: My love for you is about the size of a cat. Not, like a lion or something. About the size of an average housecat.
Joanne: My love for you is about the size of a bunny.
Alan: That's not true. You love me more than that.
Joanne: Herman the bunny.

Yes, it does.

For years I've been saying that when Alan gets out of school, I want to switch to working part-time and have that much more time for writing. I discovered when I was writing full-time that I can only be productive for about five hours max, and then my brain melts, so writing full-time isn't really an option, for me. Also, I think it's good for me ( Read more... )

Since the beginning of the month, I've written:

• a short story about an epidemic of dreams,
• most of a short story about flash mobs,
• and, a five-part poem in the style of Gertrude Stein about an alien invasion.

I also got caught up on submissions, which included light editing of a bunch of things. I also did some social stuff like a normal person ( Read more... )