So, today, for one of the first times in a while, I can say I'm completely happy. Not that I wasn't happy before--I was--but there was always some doubt or worry looming over my head... usually about money, school, work. Today, that's gone. and, bonus: I'm successfully typing this with a lit cigarette between my middle and index finger and it hasn't effected my speed whatsoever.
So this weekend, Mark and I went to Louisville and I found two adorable apartments in Old Louisville, an area full of old Victorian mansions divided into apartments. I think "really cute"might be a stretch (as they are both basement studio apartments with brick walls and concrete floors) but I think I could make the space my own. I met with the person who will be my boss, Nickole Brown. She was Hunter S. Thompson's personal assistant while he was still alive, which, as I've already discovered, makes only one degree of seperation apart. Cool. I get to work the Sarabande table at AWP in Chicago, which means I will get to meet some pretty badass poets and fiction writers. I hope this doesn't seem like I'm bragging or trying to sound pretentious, and I'm pretty sure that's only cool to me, and maybe 2 or 3 of you reading this... I'm just really f'ing excited. AND, my sweet wonderful amazing badass dad called me today and said that he was going to give me some money to help with the moving in/bills. THANKS DAD. Also, I decided I'm only going to stay 6 months.. they gave me the option of staying a year, but six months just seems a little more comfortable. I'm not ready to walk away from my life here for an entire year... that seems so intimidating. Six months I can handle. oh AND their last intern just got a job in New York at a feminist press! So that's def. encouraging.. AND I am most likely getting a part-tme job at an independent bookstore in Louisville when I'm not working at Sarabande.
 
Okay, I'm done. Just had to get that out while I'm still in a really really great mood.. these times are few and far between.