159. all these things that i’ve done
August 22nd, 2009 § 3 Comments
I received an email from the Associate Director of my school’s writing program this morning; he’d looked over my College Writing syllabus and made some useful comments. But it just goes to show that, with my flight booked for Tuesday and plans to be picked up in Detroit later that night, my summer’s coming to a close. Here are some things that I did since finishing my first year:
- I wrote, as of this moment, over 12,000 words of my novel. It would have been much more than that, had I not decided to trash the entire beginning, but I think that the manuscript is the better for it. In my meantime, people in my circle of friends got agents, jobs as editors, and published in major journals, which caused me to worry a little bit — until I had an insomniac talk with a good poet friend of mine who said some very encouraging things about taking one’s time. Which I am. And I think I’m doing a good job.
- I went to Taiwan for three-and-a-half weeks. (The above photographs were taken in an enormous field of sunflowers adjacent to a mango festival.) I thought a lot about diet and body image. I bought a lot of cheap clothing from street stalls.
- I attended two weddings. I also got married, myself, which was as perfect as I could have hoped for, and I can say that I’m a “happily married woman” with a completely straight face!
- I started learning Latin.
- I went camping with friends for nearly a week, crossed half the country by car with Anna, and had a pseudo-honeymoon while researching my novel in the wilds of Northeastern California.
- I watched There Will Be Blood three times in the span of four days, and I finally watched O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which Chris has been trying to get me to watch pretty much since the first day we started dating.
- I realized that there was a gap in the literature about living well with bipolar disorder and started work on a photoessay book, which I’m trying to fund the equipment for via Kickstarter.
What are some important things that you did this summer?
You look so lovely!!! Also I can’t believe you did all those things this summer and still had time to blog! I don’t think I did anything worth writing about . . mostly I just complained about summer.
Oh, and Lyell for U.O.! I only tried on one thing (the purple print dress) and it was . . .not the greatest. It’s beautiful, but it doesn’t fit well enough for 88 dollars . . kind of too blousy at the top. If the dress were $30 I’d have bought it though! But the fabric wasn’t nice–I can’t remember for sure, but I thought it was supposed to be silk, and it definitely felt like a thin blend of some kind. The tap pants looked really pajama-ish– I didn’t really look at anything else closely–I’m interested in seeing the cardigans, but our U.O. didn’t have them. So honestly I’d go to a store to see the stuff in person before buying.
Photoshop is fun!
Oh you are gorgeous! Summer was a while ago.. I can’t remember what “important” things I did. Not a lot O_o
Partying with friends, meeting new people, listenign to live music, swimming in the ocean, making cocktails, dancing. Just selfish fun.
Working and going to the gym also
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