Actually, the living is quite a-kilter. Every day is a new surprise, and perhaps this is what it means to live in “interesting times.”  In any event, I (watch what I) eat, I read, I sleep, I teach, I write with arguably extra-sufficient skill, while wondering what fresh hell will be delivered to my inbox that morning (rejections need not apply). I’m seriously trying not to doom scroll, or return to the X wasteland for what I’ve been missing,  and right now all I’m using Instagram for is the cat videos. (Yes, guilty as charged.) Most of all I’m trying not to live a parenthetical life, but it’s starting to look as if I am, still waiting (a bit impatiently) for that Big Breakout. I wonder if it too is waiting for me.

Ah, what the hell. Going to grab a cold one and slice off another slab of watermelon. Happy Summer everyone!