I decided to push through and copy and paste over the poems I plan to turn in for my final residency at Queens into my thesis file. Then I printed all 102 pages of the poems I have turned in from January 2007 until May 2008. I still have poems to turn in 4 times from August till November of this year but I don’t plan to workshop anything that will be in the thesis unless I turn in one or two revisions that are really troubling me.
Now should I just let the stack of paper lie or should I start looking through it for what I want to keep? How long should I try to make the thesis? All the little questions that flutter through my little head which may be why I forgot to pick up the chair cushion from the dry cleaner while I was out. Or it could be because I’ve never used a dry cleaner before and I didn’t take my To Do list with me when I went out. Which in someways defeats the purpose of a To Do list. But I digress.
Anyway I was really proud of my little printer. Hubby got it for my birthday in February of 2007 and during the thesis print out is when it finally started showing a toner light. I had recently purchased a toner cartridge so I was prepared. Good printer. Now rest.
Sent out one of my chapbooks today and submitted poems to an inexpensive contest as well as to a lit mag. I typed up my first edits on my poems for the final residency and I think these are going to be tough edits. I only have a week to work on them, but hopefully they won’t be so horrible that the people in my group, including my new workshop leader, won’t go–Now how did she get in the program?
Not a bad Friday all around, but I still need to vacuum and work on a very un-me but very craft project involving an old window seat that is now going to be a coffee table. Maybe I’ll show you pictures.
Have a good weekend Everyone!
but also because we do not submit poems during June and July for workshop so there is the time factor. But, I couldn’t wait. I have compiled up to January 2008 residency now in a document and it is already a little frustrating. I went into compiling the thesis with this grand idea of how it was going to be obvious which poems to use because they would be so many on my certain obsessions. Hmm…doesn’t seem to be so or if there are many poems on certain “topics” I’m not fond of the poems themselves.
but it didn’t bother me. Still have 16 sets of poems out there. I just want them back and the thesis poems typed up so I can decide what poems are worth continuing to revise and which ones need to be tucked away.
