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Friday, June 08, 2007

 

If you ordered tinysides, and they have not arrived yet, have patience. The prospect of mailing things fills me with terrible ennui, and I only gathered the strength to overcome it today, releasing envelopes like bloated seedpods into our nation's letter delivery system.

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Off to NYC this afternoon. Whee! Back on Sunday. In the meantime...



watch out for sneaky geese.

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

 

Listening to new music, suddenly feeling perky after suffering through a suffusing grumpiness. I will now eat cheese and jam and read part of a Nero Wolfe novel and go to sleep. Tomorrow I will get up and run and work and go to Drink and Walk and then come home and pack for NYC.

I am the queen of several things.

My name is Maureen Thorson and I approve this photo:


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Let This Prayerful Gnome Guide You Throughout Your Day




Woke up at 4:30 to the sound of rain, and thought, oh goody, it will be raining when the alarm goes off at 5:30 and then I won't have to run! No such luck. Rain had given way to pristine, lush dawn by then. So off I went....schlep, schlep, schlep.

It's been a couple of weeks of this now. I wouldn't say the results are visible...well perhaps they are. Strange shadow on my leg that I have thought, with growing alarm, to be a brownish spreading bruise turns out in fact to be muscle definition. I think. It could still be a bruise. But I like the other story better.

Last night I prepared and sent off six submissions to journals. Oh, how I hate submitting stuff but for once, I actually have poems to send. Good-bye little poems. Fare thee well.

Going to NYC this weekend, huzzah, and working doubletime to be able to afford the time off (even my weekends demand a certain number of billable hours as a tribute). And hey, the only thing more fun than eight hours at work is twelve hours at work.

Tonight: vampire movies, continued tinysidage, calorie restrictions.

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Monday, June 04, 2007

 

These Are Not the Maureens You're Looking For

If my mail is anything to go by, someone believes that I am, in fact, Maureen Owen. I am not Maureen Owen, but I will accept mail on her behalf. Also on behalf of Maureen Seaton, Frank O'Hara, Marie Curie, and the Dauphin of France.

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Sunday, June 03, 2007

 

Productivity Ranger 3000

This weekend I...

Got haircut.
Bought jewelry.
Bought groceries.
Did 5 hours billable work.
Gave a reading in Baltimore.
Packed and addressed tinysides for shipping.
Cleaned house.
Designed covers for Tinysides 36-40.
Set type for Tinysides 36-40.
Sent out galleys for same.
Printed and cut covers for tinysides 37 & 38.
Cut paper for tinysides 37 and 38.
Selected poems and journals for submissions.
Edited NaPoems and Applies to Oranges poems.
Read Nero Wolfe mystery novel.
Took two naps.
Cleaned fishtank.
Visited bookstore where cute guys work. Annoyed to find new ugly clerk.
Took out trash.

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The Late Justice Potter Stewart has died.



Potter, we hardly knew ye.

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