Things on my mind:
how many fungus gnats will be on the yellow sticky traps today
why the copy machine on the 4th floor struggles so hard to print on card stock
my lack of a plan for dinner tonight and how I’d better figure something out before Emily comes over
why Phoebe insists on barking every time someone is in the hallway
why my upstairs neighbor insists on playing his DJ music so loudly that it vibrates our ceiling and makes me feel like I’m “in da clurb”
the overnight trip on Thursday and Friday
making sure I’m fully packed for the overnight trip on Thursday and Friday
feeling untethered
but holding onto faith
the students of mine who want to try a month without their phones or tablets
the fact that I don’t know if I could survive a month without my phone or tablet
the fact that it’s not that I don’t know if I could, it’s that our society is designed in such a way that if I went a month without my phone, I’d probably run into some trouble
the vlogs that my students recorded this afternoon
“What is UP, y’all?”
“Hey guys, welcome back to my channel.”
as though they’d been doing it forever
our podcast and how we managed to record another episode in less than 10 minutes
(“I couldn’t do this with anyone else,” Ana said, and I agreed)
what the F is going on in Yellowjackets and how I just want to rot into the couch and binge watch it
how I can’t just rot into the couch and binge watch it yet because I need to finish this slice and figure out dinner before Emily gets here
the fact that I don’t know how to end a list poem
but the other fact that this ending will have to do
Writing With Abandon 