1. Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus as a thing in my life; the discipline will continue quite happily without me.
2. My relationship with TP; a.k.a. a whole set of dreams and goals and commitments I made to another human; a.k.a. the most significant adult romantic relationship of my life.
3. Another year; today is my birthday.
I'm sorry, I haven't been able to muster the emotional energy to write here, there has just been too much.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
Concrete
con•crete
1: naming a real thing or class of things
2: formed by coalition of particles into one solid mass
3 a: characterized by or belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events b: specific, particular c: real, tangible
Send inquiries and submissions to:
ssp.submissions@gmail.com.
1: naming a real thing or class of things
2: formed by coalition of particles into one solid mass
3 a: characterized by or belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events b: specific, particular c: real, tangible
Announcing the first open call for submissions to Concrete, a literary print journal through Sideshow Press, a publishing house for the rest of us. Editor and publisher, Toni Amato will work with one guest editor each issue.
Our premier issue will be guest-edited with Andra Hibbert, a queer writer and researcher who lives in Jamaica Plain, MA and is negotiating the concretes of faith, love, food, and vocation.
For each of us, there is a moment where our abstracts --home, recovery, ability, family, grief, faith -- become concrete. For the first issue of the journal, we are interested in creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction that present the personal and particular negotiations and explorations of these moments.
Submissions may be no more than 15 double-spaced (12 point, Times New Roman or Garamond) pages of prose or up to 5 poems (not to exceed 15 total pages). Include your name and the title(s) of your pieces and be certain to paginate. Please send your work as word document or rtf attachments. Be sure to include a valid email address and phone number. Selected authors will receive two free copies.
Submissions for the premier issue are due by May 30th, but all work will be considered for future themed issues as well.
Our premier issue will be guest-edited with Andra Hibbert, a queer writer and researcher who lives in Jamaica Plain, MA and is negotiating the concretes of faith, love, food, and vocation.
For each of us, there is a moment where our abstracts --home, recovery, ability, family, grief, faith -- become concrete. For the first issue of the journal, we are interested in creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction that present the personal and particular negotiations and explorations of these moments.
Submissions may be no more than 15 double-spaced (12 point, Times New Roman or Garamond) pages of prose or up to 5 poems (not to exceed 15 total pages). Include your name and the title(s) of your pieces and be certain to paginate. Please send your work as word document or rtf attachments. Be sure to include a valid email address and phone number. Selected authors will receive two free copies.
Submissions for the premier issue are due by May 30th, but all work will be considered for future themed issues as well.
Send inquiries and submissions to:
ssp.submissions@gmail.com.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
11 True Things
1. I realized just now that I missed blogging, I'm here, kids, I'm not slipping or falling away from the blogosphere.
2. Most of the things I feel moved to write about right now would reveal to you the city I live in, the job I have, the darkness that slides around behind my heart.
3. If you commit yourself to enjoying the aesthetics of your situation, and you are creative, you can enjoy almost anything.
4. Right now I'm curled with a ceramic mug of ginger tea, scattered white pages of math, wrapped in a HUGE gray cardigan, my bare feet on a red footstool -- this is all most pleasant because of #3. I'm not sure the math test tomorrow will be quite as charming.
5. Something has shifted this week such that I have been enjoying my job a lot more than recently. Maybe because of the abstract sent off to a MajorNationalAssociation (MNA), or because I got to spend time with reference librarians (and really, what more can you ask for in a day's work?) Maybe because of some chemical tweaking that I am not privy to, in any case. I feel better there and more engaged. This is good.
6. I get to see Female to Femme next week. I'm excited to the core, and I shall have most excellent company.
7. By the end of the summer, I will be leaving my quirky yellow garret room, and I'm almost sad about that. But then, maybe my next room will have a closet, maybe?
8. I hate that my google account follows me wherever I go on the web, particularly when I am signed into email as *me* and I want to leave comments on blogs as *Corinne*. Has anyone figured out a loophole for this?
9. I bought some color coded folders this week to organize my life into. I'm very excited, but still haven't taken them out of my messenger bag. That said, my messenger bag is a good deal more tidy than this, though also a bit less interesting.
10. Next weekend, I'm going to be home in HarborCity, right now the only things I have planned are a film and a morning of writing by myself in a coffeeshop. I also desperately want to scrub the kitchen floor and make sourdough. It will have been almost two months since I've had such a weekend. 10 more days until I can be the homebody I really am.
11. For the next four days I'll be in BlueCity, RedState visiting TP ... and my aunt and uncle, and my mother and sisters will also be down there -- it's a big get together that was *totally* not my idea, and hopefully will not be too awfully stressful. But then, what could be more stressful that using the simplex method to solve the dual problem in game theory (see #4)?
Oh, right, sisters and mother and food and alcohol and the opportunity to wear bathing suits. Catch'ya on the flipside.
2. Most of the things I feel moved to write about right now would reveal to you the city I live in, the job I have, the darkness that slides around behind my heart.
3. If you commit yourself to enjoying the aesthetics of your situation, and you are creative, you can enjoy almost anything.
4. Right now I'm curled with a ceramic mug of ginger tea, scattered white pages of math, wrapped in a HUGE gray cardigan, my bare feet on a red footstool -- this is all most pleasant because of #3. I'm not sure the math test tomorrow will be quite as charming.
5. Something has shifted this week such that I have been enjoying my job a lot more than recently. Maybe because of the abstract sent off to a MajorNationalAssociation (MNA), or because I got to spend time with reference librarians (and really, what more can you ask for in a day's work?) Maybe because of some chemical tweaking that I am not privy to, in any case. I feel better there and more engaged. This is good.
6. I get to see Female to Femme next week. I'm excited to the core, and I shall have most excellent company.
7. By the end of the summer, I will be leaving my quirky yellow garret room, and I'm almost sad about that. But then, maybe my next room will have a closet, maybe?
8. I hate that my google account follows me wherever I go on the web, particularly when I am signed into email as *me* and I want to leave comments on blogs as *Corinne*. Has anyone figured out a loophole for this?
9. I bought some color coded folders this week to organize my life into. I'm very excited, but still haven't taken them out of my messenger bag. That said, my messenger bag is a good deal more tidy than this, though also a bit less interesting.
10. Next weekend, I'm going to be home in HarborCity, right now the only things I have planned are a film and a morning of writing by myself in a coffeeshop. I also desperately want to scrub the kitchen floor and make sourdough. It will have been almost two months since I've had such a weekend. 10 more days until I can be the homebody I really am.
11. For the next four days I'll be in BlueCity, RedState visiting TP ... and my aunt and uncle, and my mother and sisters will also be down there -- it's a big get together that was *totally* not my idea, and hopefully will not be too awfully stressful. But then, what could be more stressful that using the simplex method to solve the dual problem in game theory (see #4)?
Oh, right, sisters and mother and food and alcohol and the opportunity to wear bathing suits. Catch'ya on the flipside.
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