I can't do it.
I just can't do it.
I have FOUR (count 'em, 1 2 3 4) articles etc. Magazine waiting patiently to be written, and I cannot will myself to buckle down and write them.
Instead, I sit at my desk and listen to old country music (Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Linda Ronstadt...). Songs with depressing titles such as "Wish I Still Had You," "Tear Drops Will Kiss the Morning Dew," and "Miss the Mississippi and You."
It really sets a great mood... It makes me want to sit in a dusty bar in Oklahoma and throw back a couple. Maybe I would commiserate with the old town drunk. Maybe I'm the town drunk. I don't know. I don't know where this fantasy is going. All I know is that I'll be wearing a great pair of cowboy boots in this fantasy.
No matter how much I procrastinate with my not-so-secret cowgirl fantasies, articles always get written. So I'm not that worried.
Instead, I'll sit at my desk and think about other things...
Like...
I haven't seen Joe since Monday. Inner monologue: Allie, don't be a needy girlfriend, don't be a needy girlfriend, don't be a needy girlfriend...
Hmm... what's going on on facebook?
David Godfrey had one of his French students sing "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt to him...
Justin Rusk concurs that I have dyslexia (when I say things like, "I slammed my finger in a door," its pretty obvious).
A list of people I miss:
1. Britta
2. Laura
3. Carissa
4. Mom
5. Dad
6. Katie Dimas
7. Moorea
8. Heidi
9. Tita
How is it that I am missing every person that is important to me? Why do you people have to be world travelers? Why do you people have to live far away? Why are you people enrolled in school and busy with homework? WHAT ABOUT ME?
Plan for the evening: Cook dinner, watch Agatha Christie mysteries, paint nails...
Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to make my cowgirl fantasy come true.
3 comments :
i want to see you this weekend.
my mentor is coming to visit!!!!!! maybe we could come have din din at your house on sunday or something and i'll bring food too? whatever happens, we gotta hang and i want you to meet her, because i love you both so much
You're the one who moved away.
Use those excellent SPU benefits and come travel with me for two weeks in May!
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