Happy All Saints Day!

Yesterday was my six month anniversary. I have been in North Carolina for six months. Wow how time flies when you are busy. A retrospective is likely in order, but I am not doing one right now. Though I will say I have been mostly pleased with the area. It has become cold and icky lately, but the summer was great.I am not looking forward to winter, though I saw a major sign of its impending approach yesterday. The groundskeepers at NCSU were running around yesterday planting Pansies.

I am feeling pleased with myself this morning. I wrote for nearly two hours last night, a pleasure I have been struggling to achieve for some time. The long poem is a challenging form, and one I have not yet mastered. It is also intimidating, though I rely on bpNichol's advice that eventually you have to put the pencil to the white page and just write. There are five workshops left in this term, and five weeks, though one of those weeks is a wee tiny week consisting of only three days. What I have to do in those few weeks is terrifying. I was going to add a but, but could not think of a but that eased the fear.

I have been thinking it is Christmas card sending time. I will need to dig out my addresses again. I wonder where I put them...

It is six-thirty am and I am sitting outside sipping on a coffee. How cool is that for November 1