Here is what I am calling a "short mean poem." I am posting it here because everything in my life right now is going pretty surprisingly, amazingly great, which is wonderful except it makes for very boring conversation (I find), and because I do not expect this poem will see the light of day anywhere else, certainly not in any publications. Also because it may be short and mean but god damn does it feel good to vent the spleen. everyone else seems to have scrawled off one first what a pity for me, to skip such a popular current topic ! i could've got published again for sure ___ WORK: Context: My work schedule and load runs from the 15th of each month to the next. So the week before the 15th is wrap-up week, usually super busy. Week after, usually relaxed and free. Today is the 22nd of the month and by EOD today assuming I am on schedule I will have completed more than 50% of my monthly workload. This is actually great because I'm taking a lot of vacation in July, so getting this month done early means i can start July's work early, and I won't be panicked or frantic when it comes to taking 10 days off the last week of the month. RELATIONSHIP: Everything is superb on the romantic front. My girl and I went to a festival over the weekend. She won a sharp shooting game and, as a result, a stuffed dog that is about as big as I am. I draped it over my shoulders and we walked out of the festival together while I pondered that I was indeed the girl with the biggest prize at the fair...but maybe, I didn't mean the dog. FRIENDS: I have them. They are fewer than they used to be but the ones I still have are better. BUDGET: Surprise $150 credit on my energy bill this month AND my monthly vet payments are finally done as of this month. I can eat! And drink! And maybe go out some night even! WRITING: Doing it, sometimes. Thinking about how I want to do it, more. In a good place. Sent a submission today. EXERCISE: Been tearing up the Fitbit last few days and calorie tracking. I have to remind myself fitness is a journey, and hot bods are made day by day, but hey...I've got a good streak going right now. FAMILY: I went home twice in the past 2 weeks and didn't get into even a small tizzy with my mom either time. PLUS, they seem to suspect I'm dating a chick, which means telling them will be that much easier when it happens. What else even is there? poem for orlando i have no poem for orlando
I am totally a sub-heading person too. I've been living without sub-headings since June 1. It's been a lot of resuscitative fun. Maybe I was drowning. So, inspired by refugees of all sorts: WORK the teaching job that paid half but was more energizing has ended. The teaching job that paid twice as much for the same work has doubled! -- but I can't take January and February off any more. Rewriting course now. RELATIONSHIP This has been very interesting and deserves its own post one of these days. I will be in his province (and in his teeny-tiny apartment) for three more weeks. Then I'll leave and then come back. It's pretty nice. ("But have a real relationship with a person that goes on for years -- that's completely unpredictable. Then, you've cut off all your ties to the land, and you're sailing into the unknown, into uncharted seas." (from My Dinner with Andre) FRIENDS oh dear lovely friends. I miss you all, the ones back home and the ones out here too. I'll try to make contact today. BUDGET Every couple of days, I prod the ex-spousal-unit to SIGN the damn separation agreement which he initiated a year ago. Then I can budget. Meanwhile, it will be fine. It will be fine. OH, YEAH, the EX last week he said this: "It was pretty stupid what I did." Yes, yes it was. At least now that you realize it, we occupy the same cognitive universe. WRITING so much that I need to do -- especially the one-woman show... only a year away! EXERCISE I just bought a bike to ride here in Vancouver. The way to the bf's heart is through the forest, so there's been lots of hiking and biking, kayaking - and next week, canoeing and cannoodling. FAMILY miss 'em, but they're surviving without me. Meanwhile, I discovered a rather close NEW cousin living a few blocks from here. And he's a blues musician. I thought I more-or-less knew them all - but he's the missing one. His father and my mother and father were all FIRST COUSINS. so relatively close. When we met, he brought a huge photo album -- and on page 2 were a bunch of pictures of my siblings and me as little children that my mother had sent his grandfather... wow wow wow. !!! so cool. So thanks refugee for the headings. There are more and wackier headings, but these will do. Now - oh life.
I saw the doggo but your girl is v v v cute too!
We have probably known each other, mostly through friends, for at least a year and a half actually. The short answer is "through friends." The long answer is that a few years back I was single as usual and had been for long enough to forget that sites like OKC are far more depressing than successful in finding a date, at least for me. I decided to change my approach. I decided to use OKC to find tennis partners. I'd thought this out. I considered that tennis was both free to play, and relatively cheap to begin playing; it was an unusual first date activity but dinner and a movie is far worse; it would allow me to observe things about the other person like whether they were a sore loser/arrogant winner, whether they got frustrated if they had trouble, basically it would give me interesting potential insight and some might help me sort out duds more quickly than a regular boring stupid expensive fancy date. Plus I really care about being physically active, so anyone willing to play tennis on a date would presumably enjoy being active too. I only got serious take ups on my offer from girls. I met and played tennis with 2 lesbians who, it turned out, also knew each other through OKC. Most of them also had a few ancillary friends, like significant others, etc. one of the girls really liked to entertain so she would have us together for parties a few times a year until we all casually knew each other. this is already totally too long. OK so then I got to know a subgroup better and developed a crush on MG (muh girl). I flirted with her real hard for like 2 months, contrived us to hook up, and continued to pursue until she realized i wasn't trying to be friends who maybe fucked but the whole shebang. when we started dating i said "no talking. i hate talking about things." so far this completely counterintuitive approach...has actually worked out.