So after six months I think it's finally time to knock my most recent journal entry off my front page. Don't have much to say. I did a lot of work for a few months, had a lot of readings, was published several times, sold some chapbooks, had an interview on Loyola's radio station. Now I'm stuck in a poetry rut with a mean case of writer's block and little motivation. Couldn't come at a worse time as there is a big feminist poetry contest I'm going to enter and need to come up with something I'm proud of by the end of May.

I have a lot of shit going on in my life. Swamped with homework. Need to pack up and move out of my apartment and into a new one by the end of the month. I'm having a hard time feeling motivated to socialize. The only person I make an effort to see socially is my boyfriend. Sometimes I go to parties still, although I'm very selective in which ones I choose to go to.

This all makes me life seem very stressful and depressing. It sort of is, but eh, I feel like it's mostly just the weather. Once it's warmer I'll be glad to be alive again. On that note, as soon as I graduate I'm moving somewhere that is warm and temperate all year round. So sick of these brutal Chicago winters.

School's started, third week in, and I'm just beginning to feel like it's a good thing. Had my first couple acid trips, after years of trying. Supposedly this is an important landmark in an artist's career. Spent all day today grinding my teeth and tapping my toes.

Got a lot of feature readings coming up. Hopefully making some money off of curating a student reading series for my school this fall. Also, I have an upcoming publication:

Hello! This is Sean, from the Chicago Weekly, writing to happily inform you that we've decided to accept your pieces "Entropy," "Entropy of the Straits," and "Between Detroit and Chicago" for inclusion in the inaugural, Midwestern edition of our zine! The zine will be released on the date of the Weekly's annual culture fest, REorientation, to be held on Oct. 17th.

Congratulations! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
Sean

These days I'm trying to balance wanting to go to bed and wanting to kill things. I've also investing myself in being one of those people whom firmly believes that if Obama doesn't get elected, America will burst into flames and brothers and sisters will bed together and a seven-headed beast will ascend upon us, etc. That tends to make things a bit more stressful.

So I feel bad, but it seems like every time I log onto this site, I have at least 30 new deviations. Usually I don't check them, and half the time I do, I get bored very quickly. I feel bad because there are artists on here whom I used to mutually support, but now I'm frustrated with the layout of the site and simply lack enough time to devote attention to every talented person.

So I'm proposing now that we move our mutual appreciation to facebook, which is vastly easier in an all-purpose way to keep track of each other and each other's art. Please don't take offense to this, but after accumulating such a talented watch list, it's hard to keep up.

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Remember that screenplay I was working on a year ago that I forgot about until recently? I finished it today. Only it was finished not as a screenplay, but a pilot of a 10-part television series.

See, my latest dream in life is to go into television writing. My school offers a semester in L.A. on the CBS Lot, and I've heard many stories of students flat-out dropping out of Columbia because they got a job working for the movies or the small screen.

Anyway, a year has allowed for a lot of improvement. Right now I'm working with my film-major friend on editing it and getting all the formatting details right, but it should be up in the next couple of days.

I remember a few people were interested in this project, I think, but mostly I'm excited about this. I feel like this could be the piece that really changes my life and gets me out there, or something like that. Or at least gives me a break-through in craft.

Things are going exceedingly well right now for me in just about every area of life. I don't really think anyone reads this though, so I won't bother paying anymore attention to this website.

Fell in love again. Happens every once in a long long while. Is really awesome. Thank you and have a nice day.