a little love. a little mess. a little change.

i spent the weekend printing poetry anthologies. i used an entire black ink cartridge. (i actually still have 4 more to print, but i need more ink first.) now i have a big stack of beautiful white paper separated by blue cardstock covers. so crisp. so much to be stapled. so much to be folded. but it feels good, ya know? like those nights in college hammering a nail through packets of paper and vellum so i could bind my chapbooks with leather, or cords. cutting page edges til my fingers blistered. a labor of love. gifts for the poets, from the poets. this is the good stuff.

feeling a little less stressed out, thanks to some positive job leads and some nearly complete poetry anthologies. however, feeling more stressed out due to the amount of things i have to get done this week--work at the office, work at the pool, take heavy boxes of books to the post office, staple these books, get my haircut, fix my bike, finish reading my mark twain, type up questions for class, catch the 6:45am train on friday...

i'm glad it was a 3 day weekend, but right about now i'm wishing it weren't just a 4 day week! why is it sometimes the days go by so slowly, but the weeks go by so fast?... for now all i can do is check things off my list. try to clean up this mess. keep plowing ahead for the next big thing. waiting for the next big change.