Things that I can and will do tomorrow:

• Finish my entry for girlvswhale’s Year of Weird writing contest
• Revise my essay for “Dämmrung senkte sich von oben”
• Call my Lola and not cry
• Make it through my first “Sasquatch-2013-made-me-poor-as-hell-so-now-I-need-to-make-up-for-it” shift at work
• Sleep at a reasonable hour

Und frische Nahrung, neues Blut
Saug ich aus freier Welt;
Wie ist Natur so hold und gut,
Die mich am Busen hält!
Die Welle wieget unsern Kahn
Im Rudertakt hinauf,
Und Berge, wolkig himmelan,
Begegnen unserm Lauf.

Aug, mein Aug, was sinkst du nieder?
Goldene Träume, kommt ihr wieder?
Weg, du Traum! so gold du bist;
Hier auch Lieb und Leben ist

Auf der Welle blinken
Tausend schwebende Sterne,
Weiche Nebel trinken
Rings die türmende Ferne;
Morgenwind umflügelt
Die beschattete Bucht,
Und im See bespiegelt
Sich die reifende Frucht.

I need to work on being present and focus on moving forward rather than dwelling on—as my professor called it—the supposed “melancholy sweetness” of the past.

So, I apparently have 100 followers now? Strange, but very cool!

I just wanted to say hello.

And because I had a fookery-filled ending to my day, I am going to create a fairly brief list of the good things in my life right now:

• I have two pans of enchilada casserole downstairs. Om nom nom.
• B. is coming over for dinner tomorrow.
• I am reading Momo by Michael Ende, my first non-academic book that is completely in German! I am liking it thus far.
• My heels should be coming in the mail by tomorrow.
• I might be writing about a Babeland event being hosted by the Sexual Literacy club at UW. That should be fun.

…That’s all I have got.