Even though I'm technically on break from school, I still have so much to do. I had to postpone most of my interviews to this month - so I've got to get those rescheduled & done by the 31st. I have to prepare a report for the Board meeting by the end of the month. I have to draft a response to the MET proposal by tomorrow. I have to detail the ( Read more... )

Listening: the hiss of the forced air heat that the janitor just repaired, tones beeping and paper being pulled through the fax machine, my keyboard clicking as I type, metal file drawers being opened and shut, someone's radio playing top 40 (softly this time) a few cubicles down, someone plopping a phone book down on their desk, paper being ( Read more... )

Five personally significant events of 2007 ( Read more... )

I am absolutely beat after spending the weekend driving back and forth to Vermont and sitting through about 20 hours of sit-down meetings and committee meetings and breakfast meetings and lunch meetings and dinner meetings and such. The drive up (my first alone) was nice, though I was nervous because I become a total basket case when it comes to ( Read more... )

I don't know if I've just been in a fog or if I've been reading too much Gertrude Stein; I am normally such a grammar geek, but these last few weeks there's been a sticky cloud between the keyboard and my brain.

The first thing I have to say is if you ever have a chance to get to P-town on a weekend, you have to check out the Drag Karaoke at the Governor Bradford. Damien & I ended up there on Friday and Saturday nights. And yes, I'll be posting the pictures tonight or tomorrow ( Read more... )

So Damien and I are going away to P-town this afternoon. I haven't been since I was 9, and my godparents brought me up there for the day to look at a time share condo. Damien thinks his parents may have driven him there once when he was small. This will be the first time in close to four years - the entire time we've been together - that we will ( Read more... )

The weekend was good. Friday night, we went out to my grandmother's house to celebrate her 78th birthday. She was stricken with Alzheimer's disease a few years ago, so most of the time she doesn't appear to know what is going on, but on Friday she almost seemed like she understood. My stepson Nick kept walking over to her, sitting by her, and ( Read more... )

Grant writing can be so mind-numbing after a while, especially when there are no imminent deadlines or contact with the world outside of my cubicle. But hey, I can finally say I write for a living ( Read more... )

I submitted my first piece for publication this morning - an essay I wrote on writer's block and mothering I wrote while I was at Goddard, to the online version of HipMama magazine. Wish me luck :) I shouldn't say first. I've submitted a few poems to various sources in the past, and hope t do more of the same in the future ( Read more... )