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2007-06-04, 4:41 p.m.:
The baby turns two! There will be ice cream cake and sushi, not in that order. Two years ago they were cutting me open to remove him, screaming and red, and today I spent in my first Spanish class. I had to go in with a completely bruised, battered, scabbed-over, swollen face because I sleepwalked then fell HARD in the hallway - yep, on my face, and on my shoulder - the kind of face you don't like to take in public. Mucho gusto. Our teacher from Colombia and I love him. Walking around campus. Buying a notebook. I think I am going to love being a student again for 2 months. I had better love it for the price. Me llamo Melissa, soy de Virginia y me gusta leer. 2 comments
2007-05-24, 1:57 p.m.:
The oddest nice thing happened to me. I got reviewed. It's at the back of Square One, the University of Colorado's literary journal. The review, which is very kind and enthusiastic, is by one Hannah "Penny" Nichols. Thank you Penny. I have to say it's still a new experience for me to hear that a complete stranger might like my chapbook. Dude, I got reviewed. 0 comments
2007-05-20, 9:46 p.m.:
Back to kendo today for the first time since the early days of being pregnant with Baby Ro. And it was good, brother. There are no women there now. But one small boy. Who kicks ass. I remembered a few things including nearly but not quite actually being able to count to ten in Japanese. I can't sit on my legs Japanese-style but should be able to eventually. Kendo is hard and strange and wonderful that way. It feels like just the right place to be because not everyone wants to be there. I do. There were maybe only ten kendoists total, all men (and the one boy). I feel that, if I keep going to kendo and focus on learning Spanish and spend the rest of the time writing, reading, reading aloud to the boys and cooking meals - all will be right with the world. I just sent in a big submission today. I don't like to say where to for the record because I think that jinxes things. As an atheist, I do believe in jinxes. Clearly. Ha ha. 0 comments
2007-05-18, 10:00 a.m.:
So the poem of mine I done wrong - "First Lines from My Unwritten Novels" - is now listed as having received runner-up status in Swink's '05-'06 Literary Awards. My response to this is "heh, whatever" since I yanked the poem away from Kennesaw Review, which wanted to publish it along with two other poems of mine. I yanked it away because an editor at Swink told me that my poem was first runner-up and please please could they publish it there? And I thought that sounded like the bee's knees, what with D.A. Powell judging and all ... But Swink didn't publish it. And it was a mistake anyway. The acceptance from Kennesaw came in the mail a day before I found out about Swink's "offer" - to place my little poem in a lovely little showcase, which alas was just a pie in the sky neverneverland thing. It's just a list on a page containing my name and the title. What's worse, I removed a second poem from Kennesaw because it had been accepted somewhere else as well - by e-mail, and I so I responded right away by e-mail. Meanwhile, Kennesaw Review's acceptance was already in the mail on its way to me or even languishing in my P.O. box. So, to sum up, I done Kennesaw Review wrong, Swink did me wrong, I guess I done myself wrong, and the poem never got published in a serial and never will since it's in the chapbook. But the lovely Tita put a version of the poem up on her blog, which - here it is. So thanks, Tita. Anyway, this is why I've stopped doing simultaneous submissions, which probably means I'll never get published again. Or will when I'm about 158. 0 comments
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