I got home from the coffeeshop not too long ago...and I inexplicably started feeling anxious, unmotivated, and sad. WTF. I hate getting seemingly-random mood swings like this. Maybe it's PMS. Or maybe it's because I haven't been in my apartment in five days, since I was pet-sitting at Joel's sister's house from Wednesday night until Sunday ( Read more... )

So yes, I saw Harry Potter last Thursday night, as I said I would...and it was great. I've already gone over everything I loved about it with my friends (as well as my very few criticisms), so I won't reiterate all that here. But I will say that that I cried several times, particularly at very specific scene involving Harry and Snape. And I had a ( Read more... )

In the next hour or so, my dear friend Amanda will arrive in Raleigh, and then she and I will go to our friend Kelly's house and have Butterbeer and Pumpkin Pasties with some other great girls. Then the six of us will go to the theater for the midnight showing of the latest -- and last -- Harry Potter film, Deathly Hallows Part 2.I can't believe ( Read more... )

Has anyone on my friendslist ever read the Outlander novel series by Diana Gabaldon? I first heard of it when Joel's very cool and well-read grandmother recommended it to me when we were on our cruise with his family last November. The books are an interesting combination of romance, British historical fiction, and fantasy. It's about a young ( Read more... )

I just wrote the first new poem in my series responding to William Adolphe Bouguereau's art...and I already feel so good about it. Like most "shitty first drafts" (Anne Lamott), it's currently an unfocused mess, but I'm sure I'll be happier with it once I edit. It needs both cutting some lines out and adding some new ones, but some of the lines I ( Read more... )

My mind has felt very full recently...I always have so many thoughts swirling through my head that's it's difficult to concentrate on any one thing ( Read more... )

I started writing a new short story out of the blue about five days ago, and already I've got about 2,300 words (six pages)! I think it's already over half-way finished. It shouldn't take me long to crank out the rest, and then I can go back and edit ( Read more... )

Things with Joel are going pretty well since we reconciled. On Saturday afternoon after work, he brought to me the idea that one way we could restore our connection is to go on more actual dates. We never really dated, per se -- we did things together, sure, but they never had much of a "date" feel. Lately most of our time together has consisted of ( Read more... )

It's been a really tumultuous week for me. On Monday night I broke up with Joel, my boyfriend of over a year. The breakup discussion/fight got a little heated for awhile, although we agreed that we wanted to remain friends. Then last night we hung out, talked things over, and decided to get back together. We're going to take things more slowly this ( Read more... )

I bought the new Lady Gaga album on iTunes last night and I'm listening to it today for the first time. I became a huge fan of hers last year, which was surprising to me at the time because I don't usually listen to pop music at all. But she's actually very unique and talented, I respect her tremendously for standing up for progressive causes, and ( Read more... )