Five Things that Don't Suck, Saturday Edition

1. getting the new bees settled in their new hive
2. blueberry muffins
3. selling five copies of my chapbook overnight*
4. thinking about art
5. thinking about poetry

*it hasn't even been released yet

Five Things that Don't Suck, Sunny Friday Edition

1. Figuring out how to paint adorable crowns on the beehives
2. adorable crowns
3. leisurely breakfasts
4. long walks
5. figuring out some poet stuff

Five Things that Don't Suck, Allergy-Related Vertigo Edition

1. staying in bed in the morning while Jed walks the dogs
2. the Tilt-A-Whirl*
3. Sudafed
4. the possibility of having an incomplete theme
5. being okay with it

*when the ride is voluntary

Bonus: Three poems up at Front Porch

Three of my poems have hit the web at Front Porch. It's a pretty good week, my friends.

Five Things that Don't Suck, Almost-Full-Time-Poeting Edition

1. when a journal picks up a poem
2. when a reader picks up a journal
3. how quickly that whole chapbook thing is moving
4. reading
5. writing*

*theoretical

Five Things that Don't Suck, Good News Edition

1. getting a chapbook publication offer from ELJ Publications
2. how fast it came
3. getting a proof the next day
4. the fact that someone else loves my weird little monster movie poems
5. the weird little monster movies themselves

FTTDS Skipped the Whole Weekend Edition (Whoops)

1. being so busy with cool stuff that I just kinda...forget
2. not being able to remember what things I've put on FTTDS lists recently but being pretty sure they're about bees and poetry and being on summer break
3. being too lazy to look because I'm on summer break
4. getting some more Metamorphoses sonnets picked up*
5. having a whole week ahead of me with no campus work

*links soon!