I could sleep with you there.

[leahbobet]

April 25, 2011 Progress Notes:

On (something) Farm (no, I haven't named the farm yet)

Words today: 650.
Words total: 650.
Reason for stopping: This is humming in my head and the back of my throat like nothing has in so long; so, so long. But I still do have to go to work tomorrow, and it's way too late right now.

Darling du Jour: In the summer the men slept in the barnloft or the fields, a crop of soft breathing under the stars.

Mean Things: Let's just say I put a gun on the figurative mantelpiece, and then I figured out how to set it off.
Research Roundup: The life and planting cycle of barley; malting; river silt; suburbs of Detroit; harvesting knives, pictures thereof; German women's names; fish species in Lake Michigan.

Books in progress: Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.
The glamour: Paid off the totality of my leftover undergrad debt today. I am officially debt-free, which is a strange feeling that is slowly sinking in. So Dr. My Roommate and I went for Ethiopian to celebrate.

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I've been quiet. It was a very long winter, and a lot of things happened that I wasn't really in the mood to talk about in a public/professional forum. It's been a slow spring coming.

I won't say I'll be more regular, necessarily. But it's pretty much guaranteed that I will blog if I have words, and tonight I have words, and I suspect I will tomorrow.

Comments

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I took me a moment to realize what you meant by "harvesting knives" - at first I pictured shining fields of knives, tips pointed upwards, and workers picking them very carefully.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...nice image, actually. :)

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Wow, congratulations on paying off that undergrad debt. I have, uh, many years to go in that regard, and now I'm going to add more... sigh.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

But for a good cause!

[thesandtiger.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Go Leah!!

Jana