The last few days have been nice. I spent a lot of time with family, and watched a bunch of movies. We all saw Star Trek: Nemesis yesterday afternoon, and I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of similarities to The Wrath of Khan, especially at the end.

Kristin left this morning to go back to New York. It was sad. I miss her already.

As I was getting back to my apartment, putting the key in the lock in fact, an older African woman was coming up the stairs behind me. I smiled and said hi, and she smiled with a mouth full of gleaming white teeth and said, "Hi. Wow, you are handsome," then walked down the hall to her own apartment. It's little things like that which make you smile for the rest of the day.

Big congratulations go to fellow Cup-a-Proser Scott Reilly for selling his first short story to a professional market after only a year of writing. It's The Book of Final Flesh, the third volume of zombie stories by Eden Studios starting with The Book of All Flesh and sequeled by The Book of More Flesh, where Mike Jasper's "Goddamn Redneck Surfer Zombies" appears.

I'll be starting back on An American Symphony soon; I need to get chapter two written (since I initially skipped over it) before the novel-writing workshop at NCSU begins in a few weeks. The class is going to be interesting; I'm not exactly sure where the novel is going, so I'll have to get inventive when it comes to outlining it.

My mother loaded me up with Swiss chocolates and candy and banana bread and Greek cookies, so if I'm not a diabetic by next week, I'm definitely doing something wrong. I'm munching on fudge right now.

Now Reading:
The Alchemist's Door by Lisa Goldstein

Stories Out to Publishers:
8

Novel Word Count:
11,600