week in review

no, i don't care that it is only wednesday.

this week we learned:

• one conference can make tuition worth it.
• i am a better poet now than i was three months ago.
• i resist writing dialogue no matter what medium i'm writing.
• but i write great endings to my poems and not-so-good endings to nearly every other form.
• we learned 250 year old dead trees smell bad.
• sometimes socks are more important than underwear, especially when you want to keep warm.
• honesty, like meditation or happiness, must be practiced every day.
• sarah can survive carre adams.
• if i had to pick one group to discriminate aginst, it would be smokers, because at least it would be healthy discrimination. them, and people who are allergic to nuts and spend time doing things like lobbying airlines to get rid of in-flight peanuts. guys, i'm one of you, and i say: get over it.
• never send rice to do the job of oatmeal.
• facebook is just wrong.
• big poppa e is my new patron saint. (thank you mana.)
• i am in the midst of a love affair with grammar. one colon really does make all the difference, yall!
• if i am jamming to an alysson light song (alyssonlight.com - you won't be sorry. i go to school with this girl.) and eating salt, it must be conference time.
• i am always much stronger and smarter than i think. that is why there are people in this world like mana and carre (and maria and jeana and tracy and ed) to remind me. and even tina sometimes.
• i am making much better decisions now in regards to certain people than ever before.
• ben is right not to sleep with me. i love him dearly.
• if you write "food" when you mean "allsup's chimichangas", a good poetry teacher will call you on it.
• everyone who has ever loved, or written, or thought they had a lover, should read andre breton's "freedom of love" - the most beautiful imagery in one poem i've ever seen. (http://http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/6258) (kyle, you should read this.)
• and even though thomas will have a shitfit, rumsfeld & tenet and co are possibly being indicted for war crimes in germany and you can send a letter in support of it: http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/whatsnew/action/actionAlert2.asp

this is the most links i've ever put in a post. whatever. enjoy. love ya.