Writer's Block: National Pi Day

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(Yes, it's showy and self-aggrandizing, but when you've devoted perfectly good brain cells to utterly useless skills, you kind of lunge at chances to put them to work.)

Attempting to get caught up

So I was going to post to get caught up with everything that's been happening, but there's so much going on that it's going to take half this post to share what hasn't even happened yet:

* TOTALLY GETTING MARRIED IN A FEW DAYS ZOMIGOD I'M HYPERVENTILATING
* figmentj's acceptance into Antioch University today (squeeee! ) with a merit scholarship (SQUEEEE!), which means preparing for a move to southern New Hampshire in a matter of months
* grand plans afoot with belgatherial
* a chapter and an epilogue away from being done with the rough draft of The Noise of Endless Wars, only three years behind schedule
* the job that I still haven't found but will, gol dag nabbit by gum

This means that most of what I've been doing lately has been toward one of the goals above:

* trying to get the proverbial ducks in a row before the wedding
* perfect bachelor/ette party/ies hosted by zeyr and fiddle_dragon, complete with games, Cameron Crowe movies, English cuisine and a dancing sindrian
* job hunting job hunting job hunting oh gods my brain job hunting
* writing like crazy
* heading up to NH for the interview that led to the aforementioned grad school acceptance

Things not related to the above goals:

* banging my head against some crosswords for potential publication
* recording poetry readings by shadesong and sindrian for an online magazine
* catching the Kills live in the Boston theatre district (going several weeks back with that one)
* helping the good citizens of Gojirawitziev up and move
* intermittently hanging out with the young'uns
* trying to get back in touch with society without mucking up my sleep cycle any more than I already have
* making music when I can

Finally, I've been doing some early prep work on a mark-your-calendars-now item: it has been declared that The First Annual Bastille Day Scavenger Hunt will take place all day on July 14, 2012 (that's a Saturday), to be headquartered in Watertown but stretching for as far as folks are willing to travel to Gather Stuff. The list is ready to go. It's as mad a tea party as you think it'll be. Save the date, all.

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