Five Things that Don't Suck, Random Wednesday Edition

1. snickerdoodles
2. the perfect skirt
3. dog ears*
4. watering cans
5. the word "braggadocio"

*actual dog ears, but if you want to fold down the corner of a page while reading, you go ahead and do that. Texts are living documents--they're conversations between writer and reader, and don't let anyone tell you what the proper way is to engage in that conversation. Except with library books. People who dog ear library books are jerks.

Five Things that Don't Suck, Pedicures with Mooge and Binks Edition

1. Mooge
2. Binks
3. the way the two of them sent separate fake-argument texts to me yesterday afternoon, one claiming Binks was horning in on our pedicure and the other claiming she was not horning in
4. cute toes
5. making a "bling bling bling" noise when I show Jed the new pedi tonight

Five Things that Don't Suck, Revision Edition

1. making things stronger
2. like lines
3. or individual words
4. or yourself as a writer
5. and otherwise

Five Things that Don't Suck, Lots of Sleep Edition

1. going to bed early
2. getting up late
3. waking up at 4 and telling yourself "No way"
4. having #3 work
5. a long shower*

*within reason. Water conservation is important!

Five Things that Don't Suck, Being Home Edition

1. the dogs and love therefrom
2. Jed and love therefrom
3. seltzer after a week of flat water
4. silence
5. knowing that the next gathering will be happening before I know it

Five Things that Don't Suck, Poetry Week Edition

Hi! I'm going to be at my favorite poetry week of the year starting today--so I might post a FTTDS list every day, I might miss one or two days, or I might miss all of them. It's a fantastic week and definitely does not suck, but it gets busy and my world is wondrously full for a few days. 

1. reading good poems
2. talking about good poems
3. talking about all sorts of other things
4. going for a swim*
5. long walks

*or five

Five Things that Don't Suck, Getting Ready for Connecticut Edition

1. wondering if Connecticut can possibly be ready for me
2. movie night with The Wolf Man*
3. having someone else take care of most of the day-to-day all week so I can be a poet
4. being with other poets
5. these specific other poets**

*that's the movie, not some euphemism for any of the dudes in CT
**though I'll be missing some others, it's true