Hello, hello

So, first of all, we got ourselves a dog. We named her Indie. She's adorable! We got her on Friday. Yesterday night, we found out she had kennel cough, and we took her to the emergency vet, who gave us medicine and whatnot. She's doing OK, but just really tired (not to mention she was spayed not that long ago...she's had a rough week). We're taking her camping this weekend...
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OK, so I've been catching up on Entourage. I don't care what people say that show is Entertaining! There are many series I need to watch, though. I need to watch The Wire, Battlestar, for example. In time, in time.
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I did watch Adventureland. That's a great little flick. I recommend. It's about post BA, wanna-be grad students. Sound familiar? Yes, it does.
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I need to see Humpday. I hear (from some friends) that it's quite good.
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I've been teaching now for a couple weeks and it's going OK. Teachers out there...did you ever have days where you just want them to write all class and teach nothing because you feel like it's pointless and they should just know? Or maybe you just want to hand them the text book and say, "Read it and if you have questions we'll talk about it."? I think I've got some pretty sharp kids and some who really don't give a fuck, and just want to pass. Not to mentions a handful of students didn't show up for peer review and the rough draft turn in. That's 50 points they lost for missing one day. HA! not only that I got the whole "I'm not feeling well" email with a docx attachment. BTW it's labor day weekend...hmmmm...
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Enough of that.
So, as you know i finished a first draft of my next collection of poems: When the Wolves Quit. It's about 87 pages, but since it's a novel in verse, I feel like it's missing a lot. I just wrote four more epistolary poems for it, which I will workshop. Speaking of workshop, I like the people. There are some people who are very very helpful. I gotta say, I'm loving (imagine the McDonalds music: do, do, dooo, do, doooo). After rereading it, I know I got some rearranging and some writing, and maybe a little cutting/combining to do. My goal of finishing three books while I'm here is close. I have a feeling I'll be done with this by the winter and ready to send out for Spring poetry contests. But I may hold off and give it some real attention.

So in terms of books. I got The Story Thief to finish (all my fiction friends, I've got all of part one written, i just have to type and revise. I've got part two mapped out, and part three is up in the air, which makes me wonder if I should divide each part into separate books or make it all one big EPIC). and I have my next book of poems, which I think will be the last in my trilogy (to the chapel of light, when the wolves quit, and the churches of caspian).
I know, I know, I'm getting ahead of myself, but I like doing that, it gives me reasons to finish what I'm working on at the moment.
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In terms of film making, I've been talking to Cam and Caleb, and it looks like Do You See Colors When You Close Your Eyes? is almost done with a decent rough cut. I'm excited and can't wait till I see the film. That was my baby for a handful of years, and after almost making it and everything following through, it is getting made (probably because I stepped aside and let lines and blood take the reigns and I let go).
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I'm hungry. I'll catch you later.
Love you,
Joshua