voncookie | April 29, 2006
And, por fin, I’d like to spend extra-special happy-day wishes to my friend Eric, who I believe turns thirty-#$^*% today. We won’t disclose, but those of us who know, know. This picture was taken around 1992 at a party at our friend Jenna’s house, about a year after we met for the first time at [...]
voncookie | April 29, 2006
I just wanted to take a second and apologize to my friend Mark for not posting a birthday shout-out to him yesterday. Happy 50th, Mark! You also seem to have found some sort of fountain of youth that keeps you looking and feeling a decade younger than you are. What is the secret??? Both you [...]
voncookie | April 29, 2006
It seems that this last week of April was fated to be laden with birthdays of people who are all very important to me. Along with my cousin Veronica, there is also my step-father, my friend Mark, and my friend Eric, all within about 5 days of each other. It’s kind of odd, if you [...]
voncookie | April 28, 2006
Wow, insomnia will do wonders for one’s website. I’ve set up the initial page–please go and check it out! Any commentary welcome, of course. In fact, more than welcome!!! More Spain pix are on their way, it’s just taking a long-ass time to get them in the right order. Okay, now I’m going to try [...]
voncookie | April 27, 2006
Okay, I’m getting the message, faithful friends & readers. I can’t dabble in the nicotine any longer. It’s true. Smoking when you’re 30 really, really isn’t cool. (If I say that over and over again, maybe I’ll believe it.) In another attempt to convince myself of the necessity of giving up tobacco for-evah, here’s the [...]
voncookie | April 27, 2006
…there is now an extraordinary leak in my kitchen from the apartment upstairs… The pitcher I have placed under one of the leaky spots is filling at an exponential rate. Meanwhile, the cabinet with my dishes in it is soaked because water is trickling down the back of the shelves. It is quarter of six [...]
voncookie | April 26, 2006
I had an illusion up until this morning that my poems written back in 1997 were good poems. And just now, retyping them into my computer, feeling the words in my fingers and sounding them out loud, I realize that my good poems are really just raw poems with potential. The thing is, I’ve never [...]
voncookie | April 26, 2006
This is my beautiful, gregarious, spirited cousin, Veronica. She turns 30 today and I wanted to giver her an *enormous* shout-out for being as awesome as she is. I wanted to pass on some of the birthday wishes that I got at my 30th BDay: may your 30s be even more exciting than your 20s; [...]
voncookie | April 26, 2006
…ummm…. The Identity Theft rolls on, this time with a prepaid credit card to the tune of about 8 billion dollars. This is getting to be so played. I’m fucking exhausted. Is this pequeña pesadilla over yet?
voncookie | April 26, 2006
Confession: I’ve been indulging in the nicotine, but c’mon people, who wouldn’t? So, in an attempt to force myself to re-identify as a non-smoker, I’m going to resort to the logic of earlier postings about Spanish cigarettes, the kind that got me off the nicotine in the first place. Let us consider Exhibit D: El [...]
voncookie | April 25, 2006
Well, I’ve decided not to take this case of possible discrimination lying down. I’m going to apply for the job in Spain anyway, and probably include a letter from my therapist that makes copious use of the words “stable”, “remission” and “capable”, among others. I’m thinking, after reading Wicked Stepmother’s comment on the last posting, [...]
voncookie | April 23, 2006
I purchased the 2006 Writer’s Market Deluxe Edition today. It has some software included that helps you track submission, plus extra listings for online markets, I think. The whole thing cost $50, but I had a 25% off coupon for Borders, so I got a bit of a deal on it. I decided to purchase [...]
voncookie | April 22, 2006
Since attending class on Thursday, I’ve been puzzling over the role of anecdote in poetry, maybe not so much in general as in contemporary stuff. This all came about because of a reading of a poem by Jorge Guillén in class that had to do with a little “Splendor in the Grass”, as my professor [...]
voncookie | April 22, 2006
Okay, so I know that generally, as a class of people, we bipolars have a reputation for being, let’s say, a little unreliable. I don’t think that’s untrue. However, that bit of unreliability–and this is what gets me and is pissing me off right now–is NOT a part of everyday existence. In other words, a [...]
voncookie | April 21, 2006
Here’s a website that apparently is very well-known in the blogosphere: the Starbucks Oracle (http://www.buttafly.com/starbucks/index.php). You type in your favorite drink and then it tells you a little bit about yourself, generally stuff that you probably never wanted to hear. I quote from the site about my personality type, the Asshat, the one that likes [...]
