Monday, October 18, 2004

Implosion Imminent

I knew I couldn't get away with it...not with coworkers and friends dropping like flies around me. Saturday night it hit. Sore throat then Sunday, awful congestion, watery puffy eyes, achy neck and head...I feel awful. If I sniff any harder my face is going to implode.

Congrats on my sister and brother-in-law's impending Volvo...or as Tera says...Vulva...then starts cackling madly. We are most certainly related. Off to bed in my Nyquil induced haze.

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Women's Block

Several women I know seem to be having the "hard to let go of the asshole" syndrome...speaking from experience...I regret not going after my ex like I should have. Not for any monetary gain but if I had been smart, I would have slammed his pathetic ass with a restraining order and charged him with harassment. Oh well.

I'm trying my damndest to keep up with the goal of submitting one piece a month to a contest or literary journal, online or otherwise but it is difficult and intimidating at the very least. However, in my Editing and Publishing class we read over some submissions which my professor received for her literary magazine and if those people can get published, I sure as hell can. It all helps to make it a little less daunting.

As the election draws nearer, the panic I feel at the thought of Bush being reelected increases exponentially. Fear for my family and friends, my sister and unborn niece/nephew, fear for the kids who are in school and trying to make it. I don't like feeling this way, so hypersensitive to the atmosphere around this election that it like having my senses assaulted and its hard not to take it personally when close friends do tell me theyr'e going to vote for Bush. All I can say is "Lord, they know not what they do." Ha!...

Link for today...check out www.kpfa.org . Their website has a plethura of links that are of political, human rights slant....good information.
O

Friday, October 01, 2004

TGIF

Ever have a day where you're so sick of people that you just want to crawl under your desk and turn the lights off? That was my day. If one more person rang the bell, called me about something I didn't know, emailed me....I thought I was going to lose my mind. Anyone dream about work? At that point I start to worry. I dreamt last night that the president of my company was trying to leave his office but was being prevented from leaving by garden gnomes. Yes, you heard it here. Garden gnomes, the little guy from Amelie and from the travel company commercials. I have no clue as to what that means but I woke up laughing which is better than how I usually am in the mornings.

Still blue about the ex friend. It's sinking in though. We both had our issues and our relationship in the end was definitely codependent. That doesn 't change the fact that I still feel thrown away. I'm writing it out though. It's the premise of my second novel. (Note to self: finish the first.)

And then there is the love of my life standing in the kitchen making soup from scratch...not a day goes by where I don't look at him in wonderment....okay, enough of the sentimental slush.

New link...www.giantmicrobes.com...yes a bit sick but tis the flu season.