Jeezus - I've learned so much and still have so far to go (rejoining the human race, right?). Anyway, I'll be trying to write it down in the journal and commit it to memory, since there is now a plus two-week blank spot....

Restart

I'm not starting anything that hasn't been started before, but perhaps I can get away with saying that I've restarted what has been started before to see what new starts may arise.

I guess that means that, after getting back from California and spending the last two weeks with my parents in Tennessee, I'm ready to start traveling again. Plans include Chicago (MegaBus runs from Memphis to there!), Detroit, and then a two-week, semi-cross-country extravaganza with a person I met on the way to New York and whatever other friends may come along.

There's more stuff in the Journal section (there's usually a new post about every week or so). I put two more short, short pieces in the Stories section, since I'm experimenting with those while trying to get published (people may be more likely to read your work when it's super-short). Doodles and Reading have fallen on the wayside for the moment (I need to find a scanner for more pictures, and I've been too lazy to dig up and post some of my older annotations).

My Twisted Tale project has come to a screeching halt since the end of May, but that's fine, since I'm moving that site to WordPress, where I may have more capabilities for what I want to do. However, I still won't pass up the chance to make you feel guilty for not yet contributing if you haven't yet done so. Yeah, I hope you feel rotten, because when you think about it, we're all just rotting anyway to different degrees. Well, I've said my uplifting piece for the day - see you in cyberspace, fellow space cadets.

Twisted Tale

I'm taking a little sidetrack as another project period for my MFA program comes to a close. Technically, I'm supposed to have been doing a field study, but circumstances disrupted it somewhat. Part of the field study involves creating a collaborative story with people of all experience levels. You can help me with that story by clicking the new Twisted Tale link above. The post entitled "Help Me Tell A Twisted Tale" on that blog has all the details.

Time Lag

There's more up, although the posts haven't been obeying a linear timeline. My traveling hasn't stopped, but it has slowed a bit - I'm back in New Orleans for most of May and then all of June will be California. After that - well, who can say for sure?

PW

A new bit is up about snipers in Miami. It's dark? I'm working on another one about Pierre/Winston/PW, a bird that lived next to the pink mansion and was the inspiration for my tattoo and more carefree times in Miami. I'll try to post a picture of the tattoo on my doodles page once I find a way to hook up my camera to the netbook that doesn't involve pulling out my SD card with a pair of tweezers.

2011 Trip!?!?

The April trip from Miami to Boston is underway - I'll be trying to keep up with parts of that in the Journal, although I'm already several posts behind. I'm staying another week in Miami because I love this area and still need to get the first part of my tattoo as well as look at places to live. I put my Stories tab back up - so far there's just one short story up about a professional spammer forced to write poetry. Whether you're a crunchy or creamy kind of peanut butter person, thanks for reading.

Happy Holidays!

I've been dealing with a medical emergency for the past week. My journal page is going to focus mostly on making sense of that for however long it takes. I'm writing about it in parts, so the first part now up is about the steps leading up to the diagnosis. I don't feel like doodling for the other pages right now, but we'll have to see how that goes. Wish me luck!