iConsumerism

So much is going on, including a new addition to my life: MacBook. Behold, it is beautiful, splendid, and completely, 100% addictive. The only thing absolutely depressing (besides Mac's total and complete disregard for mother earth) is iCal. Why? Glad you asked. Because with all iCal's beautiful colors, incredible capabilities to remind you of when your next meeting with Carolyn is or even to set up your next BSU gathering, it shows just how little space is left to
sit.

This year I told myself I'd take Sabbath. This year I told myself I'd treat myself to a day without homework. January wasn't so good for that.
Maybe the new year should start in February. At least, I'm telling myself that it will get better in February.

Lent--that will be a good time for beginning a new year...

In other news, I just found out that one of my photographs has been put in the running for the cover of Logia, the Divinity School's Annual Creative Arts/Writing magazine. That's pretty neat. One of my poems has also been selected for another Duke publication. Strange--artist, poet--names I rarely go by except in my head. Now, where can I go to publish some haiku?

I will close this chapter with this: I'm spending the summer doing CPE at John Umstead, which is a mental hospital. When I went for my interview, the supervisor asked me if I could explain the difference between myself and the patients.
Good question.
I told her, "not much." It was honest.

She hired me that day.