• I wish I had more time to blog.
  • I wish I had more time to do ANYthing.
  • I, of course, have brought this on myself (having no time).
  • But, it’s all good stuff.
  • Like, I’m now a bona fide Weight Watchers leader. Which if you had told me this one year ago, I would have laughed, cried, and had you committed for insanity.
  • Like, I’m now teaching a writing class for women writers in Afghanistan. It regularly brings me to tears. PLEASE READ their work, and comment on their pieces! They are mindblowing!!!!
  • Like, I’m also teaching TWO sections of “Literature of Parenthood” and have equally mindblowing students! Who make me laugh and cry and clutch at my heart, regularly.
  • I’m NOT doing NaNoWriMo this year! Thank God!!
  • I had to postpone (indefinitely) my November Blogging Workshop because.. well, really, do I have to explain??willie
  • Like… I’m now the grandma of an adorable black lab/pitbull mix puppy named Willie. The grandmotherly love and concern is shocking and big.
  • Like, I really want Jean Quan to be the next mayor of Oakland, and the first Asian-American woman mayor of a major city!!!!!! So we hosted a fundraiser for her today. And are going to do a bunch more. She is awesome.
  • I love hoisting around 12-lb metal weights. Makes me feel very … um, pumped!
  • Also love twirling around and pretending I’m on a surfboard, that I’m an onion, a sailboat, twirling my long hair and breaking boards. That’s Nia! Big fun!!
  • I messed up my ankle a few weeks ago and am sad that I’m not running more. Ah well.
  • I used this crazy website called Stickk.com to help motivate me to maintain my weight for the last 12 weeks. Miraculously, I HAVE maintained my weight for the last twelve weeks and so I do not owe them any money. SO I decided to up the ante and do another 12-week commitment. This time I have exhorted myself to write 500 words a day of fiction, nonfiction or poetry (BLOGGING DOES NOT COUNT) between now and Jan 1, and if I do not, they will take $600 of mine and send it to some anti-gay marriage organization. A friend of mine is serving as Referee and will be letting them know if I do indeed fulfill my promises. I’ll be sending her those 500 words. Something tells me that this is going to be tougher than the weight thing, but if you had told me THAT a year ago, (that it would be easier to lose/maintain weight than to write) I would have not believed it. So please wish me luck on that one, and if you would like to be a Supporter or cheerleader for me, PLEASE do HERE.
  • Tomorrow, because I have nothing else to do (ha ha ha) I am going to participate in trying to assemble the world’s longest California roll. Because I need to have some fun. And because I love sushi.
  • Later in the week I am going to attend a 4 day poetry retreat (mostly silent) with Jane Hirshfield at Santa Sabina. Because I reallllllllly need some quiet. And some poetry.
  • I read poetry at the AFAAD public gathering last night. And liked it a lot. I want to write more poetry. So this upcoming retreat is a good thing.
  • I would love to play taiko again sometime soon. But I do not think that is going to happen. Unless I can figure out how to clone myself.
  • I still want to learn to play banjo. Ditto on that.
  • I am going to tear my hair and weep when our housemate moves out. Because how awesome is it to have a friend/cook/writer/artist/historian/snake owner/awesome person in our house? How awesome is it that she speaks Japanese to my mother? And that when I was at Nia this morning and my husband fell off his bike and injured his shoulder and hit his head, SHE was around to take him to the emergency room? And then when I later went to pick him up at the emergency room, SHE went to pick up our daughter who needed a ride home from crew practice? It’s like having another wife. But better. Way better.
  • We will be taking applications for a new housemate soon.
  • I wish I could be watching Frost/Nixon on TV with my husband right now but after this very brief microblogging break, I am going back to work. Of which there is much.