Vaycay!

Tomorrow’s my last day of work for ten whole days, and I am really excited about my vacation. What, in particular, am I excited about regarding my vacation, you ask? Well I’ll tell you.

I am tooootally psyched about

• Gardening!
• Taking some pictures with Meg’s camera
• Visiting my mom in DC for a night
• Visiting my sister in Charlottesville for a coupla nights
• Shopping for clothes, a bike helmet, a bike lock
• Writing a couple of short pieces on neat artists and makers for RM, and making a little extra cash-money

And then there were the bigger things. Like, taking 400 Words in hand. I have wanted some time to do some blogwhoring. To look into grants, for that matter. I think my project is grantable. I think it could be. And…I wanted to distill my thesis back down to regular-paper length and send it to some journals. In case I, you know, ever want to go to school again. So researching what journals I could send to, and how. And I wanted to do some writing of my own. And make a pitch to The Believer that I’ve been wanting to make for over a year now. Digging back into that stuff. A-and thinking about jobs. This one. Other ones. Maybe changing. Where the project fits into that. What I’m, like, trying to do overall.

“That’s way more than you can do in a week,” my mother said last week on the phone, as I was excitedly describing my plans for this vacation. She is right.

Well, at least the weather ought to be very nice. And I’m looking forward to a break from NY’s endless pavements, looking forward to new green leaves. It’s a really good time of year for Virginia.