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Dimonds Among Spades

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The internet has everything in spades, not least of them t shirts and magazines. But these two enterprises came to my attention lately, and I quite like them.

Put your favorite book on your chest, with these literary inspired t-shirts. My friend Brian just started this operation, so kudos to him. The design at left is from Kafka’s Metamorphosis, thus the cockroach on his back saying “Oh Bother.” I love it, but I’m tore between this and the Alice and Wonderland t shirt.
(Hint hint, nudge nudge, Christmas is coming.)
This webzine is like culture megalomania at its best. Want poetry, fine art, and general thoughts on creativity and genius? It’s here. Not to mention, the site helps artists sell their work through an auction process (which, granted, I don’t fully understand.) The people writing for it are the Web 2.0 version of citizen journalists with an interest in the arts, and, full disclosure, I hope to submit something really spiffy to them in future.

So that makes for two great endeavors, completely despite my status as an interested party. Hopefully I’ll be able to give both my more thorough attention when I have a permanent residence again. I moved my stuff into storage yesterday morning, and took my few-too-many bags over to a friend’s house for the night. You know you’ve overpacked when you can’t carry everything by yourself. I need to edit my luggage down. But luckily I have some really nice friends who I’ll be staying with for the week while I tie up a few loose ends, i.e. my job and finding a place to live on St. Maarten.
8 days until I leave!

Ducks in A Row

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Excuse the saccharine image, but I have good reason to be chuffed and post image of baby ducks in rows. In my long hiatus from posting I have

  • sublet my apartment
  • quit my job
  • bought a plane ticket to Saint Maarten
  • all the while enduring horrible travel ordeals to spend Thanksgiving with my boyfriend’s family, only to rush home yesterday and spend it packing up all our personal possessions, in order to put them in storage before the subletters move in tommorow morning

It’s all worked out so well so quickly I’ve hardly thought anything through. That’s not exactly true, of course; I had been trying to move to the Caribbean for the winter ever since my boyfriend’s was approved to work remotely. But nothing was working out until last Tuesday morning, and now suddenly I have a whole new adventure ahead of me.


We’ll be there until March. I’m going to focus on my writing. I plan to finish my novel and start sending out query letters. I also am going to do some travel blogging, and hopefully scour up some other freelance opportunities. It’s a pretty amazing opportunity, even aside from the beaches and sun. That’s kind of like the icing on the cake.

I feel very, very lucky.

Best Post Ever

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I haven’t blogged since Friday, and I truly truly meant to yesterday, but obviously that didn’t happen. So I truly planned to make this up by writing the BEST POST EVER.
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[Insert BEST POST EVER here]

I don’t even have the BEST EXCUSE EVER–I went home to Georgia for a week. I got back late Sunday night. Yesterday I spent about three hours opening everything that had been sent to me and a solid hour dithering before I weakly began to do something about it. Then I succumbed to TV shows and two historical novels I wanted to finish. This is not the stuff blog posts are made of. I could tell you a bit about how I painstakingly listed each scene of my novel, cut up the paper into scenes, and played with their order until I had restructured my plot. (It was a more refined version of the post-its I showed you.) Then, however, you would know how long I’ve been stuck on it! I wish I had just written it this way in the first place, but ultimately I’m really glad to be excited about it again. It was like an albatross hanging on my neck.

So yes, this is just a ‘hello’ for now. I have to make myself a cup of tea and get some work done. Tomorrow: a MIDDLING – BEST POST is on the agenda! (I promise : )