Things I am thinking of doing for which I apparently have no time.

1. pressing my clothes before I wear them.
2. writing a poem.
3. making a video essay.
4. cleaning up my house.
5. finishing all the books I've started but not finished in the last six months.
6. watching the second season of The Wire.
7. making a chocolate babka.
8. spending hours dreaming out the window.
9. writing a book about movies or music or clothes.
10. starting a new blog called Act Your Age!
11. planning my courses for next semester.
12. framing my poster of Francis Bacon's studio.
13. sorting through and getting rid of 30% of my clothes.
14. making music of some kind. Any kind.
15. having my house magically sort itself.
16. live in France for awhile.

Highlight reel.

Today's list of good things:

• after having misplaced it for a couple of years, I was relieved to find that my friend had my copy of The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
• the workshop I have been putting together on avant-garde poetry (symbolist, futurist, dada, surrealist, constructivist . . . -ist) of the early 20th century went smashingly at the first meeting this evening.
• when we took our walk, Bruiser and I did not get blown away by the gust-a-licious wind that's been blowing in our town.
• buckwheat pancakes for breakfast.
• I have a plan to visit my mom and dad soon.
• lots of salty crunchy snacks around the house.
• I had important insights when I was in California about some of my poems.
• the historian and I ate breakfast at Clint Eastwood's. Because we're very close friends with Clint. Or because he has a restaurant and inn in Carmel.
• excellent episode of Damages.
• strawberry ice cream.
• the Jazz won tonight, and Boozer played big. Huge. Very, very large.
• I know so much more about the early 20th c. avant-garde amongst French and Russian poets than I did before, say, yesterday.
• because I am done with the workshop for the week (just 2 more meetings!), I can now go read a detective novel like it is my job.