[Ginger]

• Edited poems on my laptop, all the way in to work on the train
• Edited four articles for a journal at work; recycled them down from 700 or 1200 words or whatever to a mere 400, 150, even 75, which is really just a blurb. Every time I do that I'm reminded how much bullshit there is in the world, that could go away and no one would miss it.
• Talked to my friend, a dean, for about half an hour. We both obsess over the Container Store and home interiors. Plus he wanted me to get a reporter off his back.
• Got some quotes from the director of another program, to make the reporter happy.
• Made everyone happy; the dean, the director, the reporter. Basked in my small glory for a few minutes till our office assistant left for lunch and snapped at me to watch the phones, knocking me off my high horse.
• Wrote bios for two poets I'm introducing at a reading in a couple weeks.
• Haggled with the moving company over the price for my move.
• Called the utility companies, got things lined up for my new apartment.
• Went to Bed, Bath and Be-Bad on my lunch and bought a shower curtain and towels!!! Used a gift certificate that an sassy little angel bestowed on me last week.
• Talked to my sister. Our dad is not well. I'll see him this weekend at my nephew's wedding. She wanted to give me the head's up.
• Slept all the way home on the train.
• Ate a dinner I didn't cook, then did the dinner dishes.
• I could really use a silly distraction right now. I love stupid movies, like Talladega Nights or cable series like Angry Boys. I could use a stupid movie, a mojito, and some love. Or just the movie.