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Something Remarkable: A List From the Brighter Side
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. A List From the Brighter Side. My mama is doing very well. Chemo is not in her future, just radiation. And her surgeon, much like my OB, is very happy with his handiwork. My baby nephew is doing well. His parents have very different ideas than I do about what you do when you have a 3-week-old-fresh-from-the-NICU but more power to them for not being afraid of the world, or at least not showing it. I submitted my book proposal (lit crit thing that I wanted finished. I'm a single mo...
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Something Remarkable: Minus One
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. LG has been at camp since Sunday (she comes home Saturday morning), and while I miss her (of course I miss her), it's been LOVELY. When she is around there is a lot of nagging- of the "put your plate in the dishwasher" variety- on my end and a lot of recalcitrance on hers. Tiny Boy and I don't have that relationship. I'm spending "quality time" with Tiny Boy. We picked blueberries together. We've watched a chunk of Toy Story. I don't actually cook when LG's not around, because T...
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Something Remarkable: May 2015
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Thursday, May 28, 2015. Update at the End of May. Well, where was I? I've been writing steadily since the semester ended. Working on a new project and finishing (really finishing) the book I wanted to have finished before Tiny Boy was born (ha! I've also been asked to do a bunch of shorter things (essays, reviews). I completed one, said no to one, said I'd do another on an alternate time frame. I have an upcoming workshop thing I need to prepare for. I've been reading. Ian McEwan's The Children Act.
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Something Remarkable: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. A Day in the Life. I'm interested in these day in the life posts, seen recently at Laura Vanderkam. 10:30pm lunesta; read for "pleasure"; good night (LG might still have been awake at this point, dealing with her own prepubescent insomnia). Awake from about 1-4, including two calls from Tiny Boy and a hallucinatory moment of thinking there's pop music playing- it was actually two different white noise things coming from each child's bedroom; another wake-up around 6:00]. 9:00-1...
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Something Remarkable: June 2014
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. Tiny Boy went to sleep at 10:00 last night (okay, that's not good) but there was only one potty trip and no requests for drinks (already supplied.multiple beverages in the crib! Because Tiny Boy went to sleep about 30 minutes before I wanted to sleep, I watched the first bit of Thelma and Louise. Which I haven't seen since it came out in 1991 and hadn't remembered- how did I NOT REMEMBER? That it was a rape that started the whole plot. So it's good, minus the migraine. Waah.
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Something Remarkable: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. Tiny Boy's Greatest Hits. Thanks to preschool, Tiny Boy sings. A lot. This weekend involved him singing "Happy Birthday," "Mary Had a Yittle Yam," "No Mo Monkeys Jumping on the Bed," "Yet It Go! And my personal favorite, "Us All Lib in a Lello Sumbarine.". Let's just say the car ride home was not boring. And I have officially completed NaBloPoMo. Good night, y'all. Saturday, November 29, 2014. Happy Birthday to Me. I slept somewhere around 9.5 hours. Friday, November 28, 2014.
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Something Remarkable: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. My sister in law is a tiny bit pregnant from her last IVF. I do hope it works out for them. For now, I find myself sitting on the sidelines, knowing WAY too much, and not able to do a thing. In other news, I think I've found a workable compromise to the Dr. Gorgeous open house. More on that later. Lower than my completely wonky two-to-one pregnancy with Tiny Boy. Monday, October 27, 2014. In Which My Selves Collide. But this possibility of reading my work. So I was on a keynot...
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Something Remarkable: September 2014
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Saturday, September 27, 2014. Having a good night. Our bathroom is not yet done, but closer. And done enough that I took a bath, with all the lovely white tile and I felt like I was in a hotel, which is exactly what I was going for. The paint color I picked out? It's called CALM (really super light gray). I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but I ended up reading a book called The Mood Cure. According to the aforementioned quizzes, I would seem to have the symptoms ( many. But in my body. I took a bath...
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Something Remarkable: A New Era
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. LG needed boots for horseback riding at camp. Luckily, we were able to find some very cheap boring brown boots (it's summer, after all! I tend to dress like a boring academic. Black, gray, black, gray. But I have a few things, like shocking red tights, that when I wear them and someone comments I say "you know, if you can't wear this as director of a writing program, well, what's the point? Ooh, these are cute! July 29, 2015 at 7:04 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In Lie...
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Something Remarkable: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Annual Requests for Recommendation. Thankfully rec season is done for me,. But now I'm building lists for summer reading and film/TV watching. So if you have good ones I likely missed, send them my way. And unsolcited: EVERYONE needs to read Claudia Rankine's Citizen. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Last night, Tiny Boy only called twice 1:00ish, and 5:00ish, and I slept so deeply I had a dream within a dream, featuring the Artist and Dr. Gorgeous, though I couldn't recap the plot ...