I've been feeling much more creative lately and I think that being able to express all of it satisfactorily has really been helping my mood. Winning the Delgado BHM contest certainly didn't hurt, but even before that I've been almost constantly fiddling around with making earrings, or attempting to draw in my various half-finished sketchbooks, or working on poems. Having been out of work for about two months* (I'll get to that in a moment) has definitely helped by giving me lots of free time, but I still kind feel like part of me came back to life just because I've finally gotten my groove back.

I already want to redo my BHM poem -- Dr. Cook suggests that all good poets should regularly run scissors through their work and cut out unnecessary words, and I definitely agree with that -- but I have a couple more in my head. Unfortunately, since it's after midterms now, we're going to move on to fiction, so if I want those workshopped I'll have to meet with him [or my friends, IRL] privately.

Recently I've re-affirmed that I'm much more a poet than I am a fiction writer. Fiction writing is fun, and after all I completed NaNoWriMo way back in 2003, but I'm so much more satisfied with my poetry, and I feel it on a deeper level. When I write a good poem, I really know it and I enjoy it down deep in my soul. Fiction writing is kind of like scratching an itch. It's much more transient a pleasure than writing a really good poem. I just wish I had more of the poetry I wrote at NOCCA, but a lot of that was a casualty of Hurricane Katrina. Some of it may exist on my dad's ancient computer, but I'm not holding any bets on that.

Anyway, less navel-gazing [haha] and onto more worldly things. *After not hearing from Borders for awhile I got a call today from Travis, one of the assistant managers, who informed me that just after he got off of the phone with me he was going to have the GM put me back on the schedule for next week. I don't really expect to be working 30+ hours -- I should be so lucky -- but some work is better than no work at all. I need to have money to do the daily/monthly things that need doing, as well as having some stored away for my NYC trip, as well as Dragon*Con ... and maybe a few bucks here or there to splurge on iTunes now that I'll have a giant-size iPod to store things on.

School's going swimmingly, but that's because I'm a huge nerd. I just finished up midterms. I only had one real midterm test, and that was in Bible Lit, which I enjoy. In Creative Writing, the guy who I referred to in some previous entry as Skinny McDouchebag actually came up to me and thanked me for leaving him several paragraphs of constructive criticism on his workshop poem. It's just that hardcore NOCCA training coming back! Math is faintly overwhelming but I like the rigidity of Logic, as well as the vibe of the classroom; since it's a night class most of the people in it are around my age or older, and since we're all tired and all trying to help one another do well, it's a pleasant way to end the day.

Aaaaand finally, Lumizent is almost level 79, which means that I'll have two level 80s soon in WoW. /o\