Okay, here’s the thing. This week at school there really hasn’t been all that much to do. Last week I worked like a maniac to get through two units of material, but because this is a paced learning course, there really isn’t any direct benefit to doing that. I could be working forward in the course. I could be immersing myself in the relevant literature. I could be cleaning my office so that I could do all of those things in relative peace.
Except, you know, I don’t particularly want to. I’m not sure why I’m feeling so apathetic and low energy. (My crap diet and recent aversion to exercise might have something to do with it.) The dayhome is coming to a bit of a crossroads, where I need to decide if I’m going to bring in new families or just sort of coast along until the kids in the families I serve get too big to need my care, anymore. And, of course, there is this story, haunting my dreams and diluting my focus and causing a far more banal version of ‘suffering for my art’ than I imagined in high school. Really, I should just write it out of my system and move on with my life. Really, I should probably spring-clean my house, too….
Anyway, amidst my apathy and slackitude, clicking through Twitter and Facebook and BlogHer Chatter, I followed a link to my bloggy friend Emily’s blog Coffee and Spellcheck at which point I immediately coughed coffee through my nose because she was giving me an award! Holy hell! And she said nice things about me. And she grouped me in with a bunch of amazing bloggers. This at a point where I was basically neglecting the finer points of pretty much everything around here…. Well, I’m really, really grateful.
So, here are 7 things you probably didn’t know about me:
1) I question the usefulness of lingerie. Isn’t everyone more comfortable just being naked?
2) I’m more excited than my kids are about growing purple carrots this summer.
3) I read Jon Kraukauer’s Into Thin Air in one sitting and then didn’t sleep for two days.
4) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil gave me nightmares. I cannot watch that movie.
5) I love to garden but never make enough time for it.
6) I use emoticons excessively and think everyone should be taught the use of creative punctuation. >:-}
7) I miss swearing like a sailor whenever I feel like it. “Oh, gosh” just isn’t as comforting when one slices one’s finger open.
And, here, are 7 blogs who deserve this award more than I do. Great writers and fabulous humans, each one of them:
And one more that I discovered by radical coincidence earlier this week: Amo Vitam. Please do check out the links on the left-hand sidebar, too. There are so many awesome bloggers tripping out here on the spiderwebs with me. One day when I’m not avoiding meeting school commitments, I’ll sit down and devote a page to you all.
Thanks for the link love and the diversion, Emily! It’s been a lot of years since I pretended to be a writer, and I guess I’d forgotten how effectively it sucks out my brains. Also, my first semester of grad school was intense – mostly, in a good way – and so I’m finding this session’s more pragmatic material to be a bizarre intellectual adjustment. My poor brain. A nice, warm, virtual hug was exactly what it needed. Hugs to all of you!
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Thoughts are now flying through my head exponentially. Desi, you nominated me for this Award on the 18th of May. Shame on me. Please forgive me? Your words, “apathy and slackitude” do not apply to you. They are most appropriate to this remiss misfit, name of Lindy Lee, here on WordPress. I can only offset my guilt with the fact that I am much, much older than you and, therefore, deserve a little slack from my impolite transgressions, being senile & all the other malady’s of old age. Everything seems to be arriving right on time with reference to decrepitude. Thank you. You’re a real sweetheart of a blogger. Thank you for nominating me for the One Lovely Blogger Award. I do not deserve it. You do…
Oh my goodness, Lindy Lee, don’t sweat it! I’m grateful that you come to read when you can, and I so enjoy your comments and your continued support of my little edge of the interwebs here. No guilt. No decrepitude! And you most certainly do deserve that award. You’ve given me such a smile, as always. Thank you!
While we’re doing the award thing, I’m giving myself the award of missing the most posts. Or something along those lines. Lol. Thanks and you’re welcome… and tons more mushy stuff. <3
Hahaha! No, I think I would win that one. I haven’t read any blogs in FAR too long, and haven’t written in over a week. And now I might have to actually read school texts during Reading Week. Isn’t that when students are supposed to by flashing iPhone cameras in Cozumel? *sobs* Thanks for the link love and the welcome mushiness, sweet lady <3 I'll catch up with you, soon!
Yours is a lovely blog for sure :) Also? You are spot on with the lingerie thing. I’ve never seen the point of paying for a lace piece of floss that feels like a wedgie. Then again, “seductress” has never been my place in life!
Thanks, Tori! My husband sent me an internet meme along the lines of “I don’t need pickup lines, I’ll just seduce you with my awkwardness.” It was appropriate =D
Thank you so much Desi! I’m honored that someone who writes as well as you thinks my lil blog deserving =)
Ima gonna put this right up on my wall all fancy-like in about a week, right after we celebrate Towel Day, cool?
LOL I fully expect you to have it professionally matted, then framed behind UV resistant glass in a humidity and temperature controlled environment. And if you can’t? Well… Don’t Panic ;-)
The award should be for the “One Lovely Person Award” as well <3
((hugs)) Thanks, Neeks. You’re a sweetheart <3
Aww, thank you!! Finding your blog has been the highlight of my week, too! And I’m afraid I’m not-at-all surprised you got that award.
I love your banal version of “suffering for your art”. Banality rules. And by all means, do get that book out of your system!
On the issue of swearing: http://www.amovitam.ca/2012/03/i-swear.html :)
Yay! And thank you! And also, you’re welcome! Have you ever dropped a container of coffee creamer? It may have been the first time my children heard me utter all of those euphemistic symbols except, you know, uncensored. Evidently, I am eminently human!
Wow! Thank you Desi! And I track your fiction like a soap-opera addict!
You’re so welcome! And thank YOU so much for reading my fiction. I am beyond thrilled that you enjoy it :-)
Thank you for the link love! I read Jon Kraukauer’s into the wild and still think about it when I should be sleeping.
You’re welcome! Wasn’t that book just awesome? The things we are willing to die for…. That‘s what keeps me up thinking about it!
Congrats on your award, Desi. It’s well-deserved as yours is a serious work of writing.
Thank you for the nomination, though I don’t consider my writing any where in the ball park with yours.
Oh, and I wish I wouldn’t have watched Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Way too much for my small gray cells to deal with.
LOL! You’re welcome! I saw the last ten minutes of the film, which was far too much for me to see. It still freaks me out, just thinking about it!