Retold

I got a letter back this afternoon from the flash fiction magazine where I had recently submitted.  They rejected my submission.  If you’re interested, I wrote about the whole thing on my writing blog, Written¹.

Otherwise, the weekend has been somewhat uneventful.  Matt left for work last night at 8:30pm and didn’t come in until 9am this morning.  He was here for an hour and half before he went back to work.  He should be home about 6:30pm.  By the time he gets here, I will have seen him for an hour and a half in the last 22 hours.  It’s been quite lonely at my house… my very clean house –  I seem to have nothing better to do, so I clean; today I shampoo’d the carpet in the living room.

I’m going now.  I think I need cake.

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Happy Friday!   Friday is my favorite day of the week, like it is for most people, because it means weekend!  I don’t know if you caught it last week but my pal Mayren and I are starting a Happy Friday theme where we attempt to put a silver lining on the week.  The intent is to say something good, preferably about the previous week, in order to perk up the weekend.  Hence the snazzy “Happy Friday” button!  Hopefully, it’ll catch on, but if not, I’m happy to participate with my friend –Mayren and I have been friends for 9 years.

This is my second week of participation, but I think is the first official week of the challenge and I’m finding it, well, challenging.  It’s been a rough week, but there’ve been so happy spots.  The happiest of all would have to be that this is the last full week of the semester!!  Classes end on Wednesday of the coming week, so it’s a truncated week.  Hurray for the semester’s end, even if it does mean I have to write a 10 page paper that I’ve not even started and study for the last history test of the semester!  Two more assignments and I’m free until June 8th!  Yay!!

I can’t wait to have some time off.  I have a little more than a month to myself before the summer from hell starts, but if I can get through the summer, fall should be smooth sailing!  Wish me luck on the summer to come.  During the month off, however, I plan to write, read, spend time with Matt and play World of Warcraft.  It should be nice to have a break, so, come on end of the semester!  My finals are both on May 5th one at 8am (bah!) the other at 3:30pm (I think).

I hope you have a Happy Friday and if you want to participate in the little challenge we’ve got going on, feel free to steal the button and write something happy!  I hope y’all have a good weekend!

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When I was a little girl, my family used to go on vacation every year. We’d pack into the mini-van and trek cross country from California to Texas to see my grandparents for a week, and then back.  What was most fun about these trips was getting to stop and see all the attractions between here and there, or should I say there and here since I live in Texas now?  Either way, stopping at the Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, or Las Vegas/Laughlin was always a blast.  Dad would also stop at those little attraction stores, which thinking back now always seemed to have a Dairy Queen in them, and we’d buy Indian Dream Catchers, or silver and turquoise rings.  We always had a good time.  Yes, seeing grandma and papa was fun too, but the attractions were always something to look forward to.  One year, we even went to Palo Duro Canyon to see the show “TEXAS” which is something I’m going to have to do again soon.

Since I’ve grown up, it’s not been quite like that.  I still enjoy vacations, but life’s circumstances don’t allow for them.  There are places I’d still like to go, like San Antonio which is in Texas but is too far for an idle day trip.  I think I wrote a while back about wanting to go to Branson, MO.  I can’t help being taken in by the country charm of the place, or what I perceive to be country charm.  Well, now I’ve found a new place to add to the list of potential vacation spots I’d like to see in the near future.

Pigeon Forge, TN.  I was browsing around the net when I ran across their website.  What a beautiful place!  It’s in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, and Dollywood is there!!  Yes, Dollywood, I want to see it.  I know, most people want to go to Nashville, but I prefer the smaller cities and attractions, besides, how far could it really be from Nashville.  We could go to Tennessee and stay in a Pigeon Forge Tennessee hotel and drive to Nashville. We live in TX, every other state, with the exception of Alaska, I see as small enough to drive around and see the whole place.  Tennessee isn’t a huge state, we could see everything.

The only thing I wouldn’t want to see is my ex-father-in-law, who apparently lives in Tennessee.  That’s one attraction I could stay away from, him and his freak show, everyone’s related, inbreed town.

The rest of Tennessee I hear is absolutely beautiful, so it’s going on my “must get there before I die” list.  So what about you?  Where would you like to go?

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My earlier cheerful mood over the soon-to-be released Dan Brown book has flown the coup and left in it’s place misery.  In other words, what started out an amazing day’s turned ugly.  I was up early after sleeping really bad last night.  I got around, got the awesome news that Dan Brown was going to be releasing The Lost Symbol in September, and was off to class.  This is the point at which my day took a sharp decline.

My first class, English senior seminar, is really a very friendly little class.  Everyone is chatty, the professor is always five or so minutes late, it’s quite nice.  We got to chatting about graduation, and when everyone would be done, and I was saying that I still needed to apply but that I would be out in December (thank the maker!).  One of the girls in my class said, “You haven’t applied?” to which I gave the negative becasue I haven’t done it yet.  She said, “The deadline for fall graduation was April 14th.”  God, no!

First of all, why the hell would the graduation deadline for December be in April?  It’s ridiculous.  The deadline for Summer was in March, a mere five months before graduation, so why in hell would the deadline for December grad be 8 months before graduation?!  I cannot tell you how upset this made me.  I missed it by a mere week.  This means, for those who might not realize, that unless they’re willing to accept it late and without the writing proficiency exam scores, I won’t be officially graduating until next May, a year from now… even though I’ll be done in December.  At this point, even if they’re willing to accept it late, they’re not likely to take it without WPE scores.  I’ll be taking the writing proficiency exam in June.

There’s a place on the Graduation Checkout Form that asks if the student (me) has “passed” the writing profiency exam.  I haven’t passed it, but only because I haven’t taken it.  I downloaded and filled out the graduation checkout and graduation applications this afternoon in anticipation of their willingness to take them late.  Crossing my fingers because I really, really, really just want to be done with my undergrad work.  Graduating college is a HUGE pain in the ass.  I suppose I should have been paying more attention to the academic calendar, but really, who would have thought it’d be due 8 friggin months before the prospective graduation date?!

Really, you’d think I’d have heard about this somewhere.  Someone would have said something, like, I don’t know other students graduating in December or my advisers, professors… anyone who might have known that it was so early.  Not a damn peep.  From now on, I’m definitely going to be paying closer attention to approaching deadlines.

Okay, I’m still so pissed off about this… I’m going to go.  I need to turn the TV off anyway, if I hear this commercial for Mesothelioma lawyers one more time, I’m going to SCREAM!

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