Tuesday

I found $1.63 in change on two different boats today. I used a dollar to buy a Baby Ruth at the fuel dock. Also, Eric found a glass bottle that is perfect for bottling kombucha. I told him I would give him some home-brewed kombucha in exchange, then realized that most people don't like kombucha or have never had it. He hadn't tried it, "Isn't that a fungus drink?," and I figured I should get the process down before I go offering tastes to the uninitiated since my last batch was a little watery and I don't want to be responsible for a bad first impression of my favorite fungus drink.

Other than that, not much to report. Gave my official notice on Saturday, so I'll be leaving Windworks in one month and one day. I also realized I will be starting school in one month and eleven days. And that I haven't written anything in several months.

I will try to start writing. I don't know what to write about anymore.

Summer Reading (and whales)

It's kind of amazing what I will do to avoid cleaning my room. This week's extracurricular activities included fixing and then breaking my bike again, driving around Issaquah for the better part of Wednesday night trying to find northeast facing darkness to see the Northern Lights in what would have been at best a 1 in 200 chance of seeing them but was an even longer shot given the clouds and the iPhone's inability to lead us up Tiger Mountain, baking chocolate chip cookies using Karen's secret recipe, completely dismantling (and fixing!) the vacuum I broke over a year ago when I sucked up a superlong string my old roommate used to leave on the floor for her cat to play with, and cutting whales, lobsters, and goldfish out of construction paper because I decided we needed to have an old school (or should I say, "old library") summer reading club.

The August Reading Club is currently accepting members in all locations, so please let me know if you'd like to join. Our theme is preppy New England sea creatures.


P.S. Thanks for the comments, blogger friends (i.e. Tom and Kate, who actually update their blogs)! Yes, it was a long overdue facelift for ye olde nonblog. But I can't take credit for the background photo (but maybe I'll put some time into trying to figure out if I can switch it with one of the many mountain photos I've taken because that would be much cooler).

Two Reasons for an Update

1) A Threat

Chloë: you better update your blog

or im gonna delink it from mine

Valid. I am a pretty delinquent blogger. But at least I am doing better than the other blog she found called "Not a Blog," which appears to have a single post written in May 2006. So I win based on both recency and quantity. Also, from what I can gather, the post appears to be about tips for MSN chat?

Haha, I just translated it using Google translator. And 1) I was right about the topic and 2) I think it's funny. And speaking of finding new blogs, you should check out Chloë's.

2) A Sign

The other day I got really excited about going back to school in a couple months and decided to look up the reading list for the lit class I'm enrolled in. One of the books is called This Is Not a Novel and it appears to be much more of not a novel than this blog is not a blog. Which I suppose we will discuss--it being a novel that is not a novel, that is, not comparing it to my sub-par blog. This makes me more than a little nervous to think that less than two months from now I will be expected to not only write, but also think. Think about things like whether or not novels that are not novels are actually novels and really what is a novel.

The Neighborhood Project (plus overdue updates)

Today was a beautiful day for a motorcycle ride so Diana & I decided to make some progress on our latest undertaking, which we refer to as The Neighborhood Project. This is our attempt to visit every single neighborhood in Seattle. There are a lot of neighborhoods in Seattle, and it's hard to find a comprehensive list. The best we've found is the official City Clerk neighborhood map here. But that doesn't even include the lesser-known sub-neighborhoods, like Puget Ridge and Pigeon Point, which we passed today on our quick drive-through of most of the Delridge area. Anyway, we're about halfway done and it just occurred to me it would have been a good thing to blog about. I haven't yet gotten around to writing up the highlights of the day. (Most neighbhooding days include cupcakes & trying new drinks at Asian markets. Sometimes these drinks include white fungus, sometimes they look delicious but prove too complicated to open.)

But I did start a Google map of our stops this afternoon (and I do plan, of course, to update it with past adventures). Check it out the new Neighborhood Project Map.

And, while we're at it, here are some more updates:

1) I got into UW's fiction MFA (Master of Fine Arts) program. I'm excited to be able to stay in Seattle and get to go back to school.

2) April will not be the best month for me to renew my dedication to blogging since I will be taking a course to get my 50 Ton Masters license (a Coast Guard license that is better than my current limited masters which only allows me to drive launches and duck boats). This means I'll be working from 9am-6pm then in class from 6pm-10pm every weekday for 5 weeks.

3) I am almost 28.

4) Did I mention I am going back to school this fall? Crazy.

5) I am currently working on a chapbook of recent writing. It has the same name as a mix CD I made a few years ago. I will post details when I am done.

Thanks for reading!

2010

Not sure how many times I've resolved to actually blog. It's a little scary how long this non-blog has been around (almost 5 years . . .)

This new year will include a lot of writing. Hopefully this will spill over to this little outlet, in case anyone is still reading.

Happy New Year.