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2019-12-27 MFA Res Day 0.5 – Midnight in December
6PM on December 27th in Nowheresville Nebraska and it might as well be midnight. Last time I was here I had to request a new room after 3 days because of a wasp problem and this time? It might be a neighbor problem. Time will tell. I’m not next to my friends anyway so they…
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2019-12-27 MFA Res Day 0
Why day 0? Cuz I’m a numbers nerd and all good counters start at 0. Today is my last minute mad scramble to get my act together and haul myself and half my world to Nebraska City for the start of my 4th official Residency for my MFA.💃💃💃 Festivities kick off this afternoon and I’m…
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2019-12-24 Party Time 🎄❤️🎄
It’s Christmas Eve ya’ll and we’ve got lots of people to see, stuff to do, and food to eat. All the wrapping and baking and running here and there for last minute errands has finally come to a conclusion and now it’s time to just try to relax and enjoy it all. But we all…
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2019-12-21 Winter Solstice Baby
We had a great Friday night last night hanging out and talking and randomly flipping through shows to watch, though we never found one. It feels a rare treat to get that QT with my fiancé with no kids and no obligations to go anywhere or do anything. For a long while we just hung…
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2019-12-20 The Answer is Pizza 🍕
You know how sometimes in life you get a feeling or a vibe or you notice a trend or a connection that defies explanation but you just know in your gut that there is something to it? Like intuition about something that makes no sense or random deja vu. There’s a reason we have a…
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2019-12-17 So Much Sweetness
Today I’m doing a happy dance as my seemingly never ending semester is finally.. FINALLY over! 💃💃💃 Yesterday was my last class on campus and we had pizza did a fun little exercise where everyone writes a line of a poem on a piece of paper and then fold that over and pass it to…
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2019-12-14 These are Not the Christmas Spirits You Were Looking For
It’s the weekend and I’ve been awake since about 7. The house is quiet and it’s just the cats and I milling about. I’ve finally made my way to the room with the treadmill and wowza is it cold in here. 62 degrees. We don’t run the heater in here unless people are going to…
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2019-12-13 Island of Misfit Divinity
When I was a wee lass my grandmother (my mother’s mother) always spent quite a bit of effort at Christmas time making cookies. It was part of her tradition and there was always a healthy spread of festive plates piled high with treats on card tables in the back room of the basement on Christmas…
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