It Has Occurred To Me

that ten years ago, one of my summer jobs was working at a greenhouse/landscaping business. Mostly, I spent the days cleaning tomato plants, deadheading petunias, and hauling 50 lb. bags of manure and topsoil. Once in awhile, though, a customer would want some help planning a yard. One day, a lady came in with big plans. I helped her pick out everything from burning bushes to columbines to juniper bushes to Korean lilacs. After ten years, I would like to see her lawn.

that I will buy any hair product with the word "shine" or "glossy" in it.

that buying and/or eating a candy bar in public is completely out of the question.

that sun, chlorine, empty streets, fire parties, grilling, swilling, and biking sound like heaven to me right now, and I am not sure how much longer I can wait for it.

that I haven't gotten a speeding ticket in 7 years.

that I have house fever, baby fever, retirement fever, lawn work fever, dancing fever, food fever, grading fever, and hair fever around-the-clock.

that listening to ABBA while walking to the store on a gray April day makes the world a lot brighter, a lot happier.

Spring Break Pics

Monday

My brother's birthday is Wednesday, and he has to spend it in damp, cold, flannel-y, Kurt Cobain playing, gray Fort Lewis near Seattle. Away from his wife, family, and friends. I put a package in the mail today filled with Chips Ahoy, pepperoni (He can eat the hell out of pepperoni), sunflower seeds, beef jerky, and a David Cross stand-up CD. I got to talk to him a bit ago, and he's doing OK. He's learning some Farsi and is tired of waiting around.

He sent me a text the other day that read, "Sodomize Intolerance!"

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B and I returned from Spring Break-Out 2009! last evening. It was a fab trip--Madtown, Chi-town, State Street, a noodle house, dancing, Wisconsin brewed beer, local wine, my fave kids J and E, liberal bumper stickers, lesbian bookstores, new Tibetan prayer flags, the Chicago Art Institute, a meal Al Capone would be jealous of, Millennium Park, Obama fever, Michigan Ave., and a 24-hour pool. Yes, please. I'll post pictures soon.

I haven't even checked my bank account and have no desire to do so.

I Kinda Wanna

enroll in a PhD program just so I can write a seminar paper on the music of Don Ho and the literature of Lois-Ann Yamanaka.

get my MFA. But in a few years because I certainly don't want anymore student loans.

get into an Ed Doc program with Jacy and astound everyone with our intelligence.

buy a Scion. Stat.

cut off all my hair.

become a foster parent.

put some money into a CD, but I hate Wells Fargo.

live in New York City right now.

go home and be a farmer.

get a breast reduction.

crank up my iTunes and annoy my colleagues.

open a lesbian bookstore.

wear sweatpants when I teach.

eat Cheetos with abandon and not care about the havoc they will do.

coach small-town JV girls' basketball.

buy a house.

go for a long walk.