Twenty-Four... and Leave a COMMENT Already!

“Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ~Annie Dillard

1. I have moved my laptop from the kitchen to the dining room, where I am more than just a few paces from the refrigerator.
2. I just now learned how to burn music from an i-Pod to an i-Tunes playlist to a CD. It took me a good portion of the afternoon.
3. I just made my first submission (yikes!) to a literary magazine (which also consumed a good portion of my afternoon). It may take up to three months to hear back from the publisher, if in fact, I ever do.
4. Last night, at a neighborhood pig roast, in addition to some choice cuts I ate the cheek of a pig─also known as pork medallions.
   
   
5. Managed to get out for a long walk with my wayfaring friend L.
6. Tonight I am meeting my former college housemates. I think it's been nearly 25 years since I've seen the three of them. Bright. beautiful, funny, competent women. We shared a beach house, just blocks from the surf, during our junior and senior year at the University of Rhode Island. I can't wait to see them, see who they are today.

So, in addition to all of the mundane things that one does in a day, I had the opportunity to learn one new thing (the i-Pod odyssey); experience a third pig roast since the first where I met my husband (20 years ago this month!) and the second, where our children experienced their first (so a pig roast is always a sentimental affair); get some exercise—really, that's a feat—and perform some slight-of-hand, via wands and brushes and a certain shading to erase twenty-five years of aging—tada—before I meet the ole girls for drinks tonight (where such gathering will nicely round out a series of a nifty twenty-four hours).

About the pig roast (thank you so much P & M!):  Wonderful, salt of the earth,  interesting and entertaining hosts and fabulously fun and amusing company. Children watching in horror and awe at an entire pig slowly roasting on a spit is a real conversation starter, an opportunity to examine and evaluate our ways, customs, values. Vegan v. carnivore. Barbaric v. civilized, humane. Dead hog v. happy folks. Yes, a pig roast is one of those primordial events from which all sorts of interesting discourse evolves. (By the way, the pig's cheek is very tender and flavorful, quite delicious.) 

Oh, and Elvis performed, too! 

I will be busy with lots of classwork in the weeks to come, so I may not have the luxury of posting as often. But I know I will still return here whenever possible, as this blog is really the space that has become the "room of my own". So, I hope you'll stay with me, still check in from time to time. If you don't hear from me, you'll know why. But please, feel free to contact me, feel free to email, or visit me on Facebook (where fractured-sentenced and cryptic entries are acceptable), feel free to once again poke around on my blog and this time leave a COMMENT—yes, dialogue is good thing, people—SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE! Or give me a call. REALLY!  

And... HUGE thank you to Hubby, for permitting me to let the laundry go, the dust bunnies collect... for making breakfast this morning... for taking the kids out to dinner tonight... for not mentioning to me once that I've been on my laptop all day long. Je t'aime.