Monday, December 21st, 2009
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11:55 pm - Two Books, Recently Read
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My favorite poems in the books:
Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck
The Lost Glove
Thirteen Feral Cats
The Different Ways of Leaving
All Kinds of Shipwrecks
Maura Stanton, Cries of Swimmers
Shoplifters
Atlantis
The Citadel
Little Ode for X
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
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7:27 pm - Is the book this bad too?
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I think Mary Shelly put a curse on me for seeing the movie Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh’s version) before reading the book, because I am haunted now.
I was expecting to see just another monster movie. It felt like it was my own selfish, flawed life that came down in a heap, and caught fire, but burned slowly enough for me to watch each part curl and smolder.
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8:40 am - I see way less vanity plates here, but when I see them, they're way funnier
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
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9:10 am - All my poems are true and fake
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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6:21 pm - A Question:
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Why did I need an incision that required six stitches (six on the outside, 3 on the inside) to remove a freckle?
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
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5:44 pm - You picked a fine time
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I got some freckles removed today (since my mom had melanoma, dermatologists remove any suspicious freckles or moles right away just in case). The only music they had was Kenny Rogers, on random. "Lucille" played three times during the short procedure. While I was getting dressed, I saw they left the freckles in the vials that are going to be sent to the lab.
If you want to see the full-sized version of the photo, you can click this tiny photo of the vials.
(One of my favorite episodes of Reno 911! stars Kenny Rogers).
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12:34 am - Everyone's Retinas Look Like Space
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After bugging my optometrist in California 3 weeks in a row, I finally got a copy of the digital retinal scans of my eyes.
They're from 2004, but since I've been studying optics, I wanted to see them again.
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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9:27 pm - The walk wasn't long enough
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I saw a Chihuahua walking on a leash a couple days ago that was so fat that I thought they invented a new dog breed: a mini Bulldog.
I grew up with a Chihuahua that was 19 lbs when she should have weighed 10 lbs or 11 lbs, and she was probably about half as fat as this dog.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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9:36 am - After Halloween, you don't expect to see Halloweenia
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The last couple days, I've been startled a few times by the Halloween severed fake hand that my cats have been playing with.
Yesterday, I threw away the trash at work, and there was a full-sized, stuffed, Halloween body complete with scary Halloween mask-face in the dumpster, face up. I was too startled/scared to think of taking a photo.
Staged photo of Dinah and her severed hand.
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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9:42 pm - I really am defensive about my bone density
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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8:24 pm - Videos of Me Reading a Couple of My Poems at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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9:07 am - Check out buzzer #6/unit #22
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Kris and I have lived together for months, but we recently asked the condo managers to change the name on the buzzer and the mailbox so it included both of our names instead of just Kris's.
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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8:32 am - The house where I live in my dreams is crumbling
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A ceiling cave in at The Homestead damaged some Emily Dickinson artifacts.
The collapse damaged some furniture and a teapot. When I went there in June, The Evergreens house was the one that was falling apart. Someone lived in the Evergreens until 1965 and she was elderly and didn't maintain the house. The Homestead seemed a lot more sturdy to me. Amherst College was trying to restore everything as quickly as possible, but they have a lot of work to do and not enough money.
I hope they can restore everything before there is more damage.
Thanks for the link Jilly.
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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11:37 pm - She would be 77
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10:50 pm - Favorites
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My favorite part of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival was a reading with Louise Gluck and Robert Pinsky reading their favorite poems for an hour.
I really enjoyed Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project from when he was poet laureate. I love hearing people talk about their favorite things, and I love when people talk about poetry, so it was double great.
Some of their favorites were also my favorites, like Berryman’s Dream Song 14 (Life, friends, is boring) and Plath’s Nick and the Candlestick (I am a miner). They also read some great ones that I hadn't heard before like Robinson Jeffers poem Vulture(I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside).
Pinsky also suggested that the audience should type up their favorite poems and keep them in a file, which I already do!
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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11:15 pm - I have a lot to say about the Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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For now, here is a photo of me at the small press book fair at the festival. They had a table with each book of everyone who was in the Massachusetts Poets with New Books Reading, and listed what time each of us went on. My book was in the middle of the table, right up front.
I am holding my new clipboard, made of hard wood (which I got complimented on more than anything else at the festival). You may also notice on my lanyard, just behind the clipboard, there is a tag that says "Presenter."
I am also wearing two backpacks in this photo. I am wearing mine, but I was also holding Kris's backpack while he took the photo.
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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3:24 pm - My business cards came in today!
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The real ones have my phone number but I took it off because I don't want my number on the internet. Kris designed them for me using my book cover as inspiration.
I've wanted business cards with "Poet" on them since I was in high school!
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
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7:00 pm - Angela Ball's Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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6:57 pm - Massachusettsversary
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Last week was the anniversary of me moving to Massachusetts, aka Poetryland!
After moving so many different places, I feel like I found my home. I wasn't sure if I would like it at first (snow), but the literary events, museums, and great public transportation have made snow and cold seem trivial.
Massachusetts also has the most gorgeous Fall I've seen.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
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9:53 am - Poetry Book Club
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