reap what you sow

So, I'm feeling pretty good today. On Wednesday I slept all morning, and last night I went to bed early. I'm still a bit tired, but I have a lot more energy than I usually do on a Friday!

Yesterday was great fun. After my violin lesson I stopped at the bank, where I ran into Marie for the first time in ages. I met Marie last January on choir tour (she was traveling with her sister, a choir member) and we hit it off right away. I don't see her much because she graduated my freshman year (I think), but we always have a lot to say to each other. She was excited to hear I'd found a writing group, and now she wants to read my story. When I finish my current editing of the first portion, I'll have to drop it by the bank for her. Yes, she works at the bank, and we were having this conversation over the teller counter.

I even got to see Audrey yesterday, though she was at work too. I stopped into Barnes and Noble and chatted with her over the counter there. When your friends are extremely busy, you sometimes just have to go and find them where they are. Of course, I also had something to pick up at the store, but that's beside the point.

What I was picking up was a CD by the daKAH hip hop orchestra. The new band director played part of it for us toward the beginning of the semester, so I've been wanting to hear more for a while now. It's definitely not my usual musical preference, but the first movement is really good.

And right now I am so glad that we have a working record player at home. The library had a big box out marked "free," so I had to check it out. What I found were record albums of works of literature. I picked up the complete plays of Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar and the Merchant of Venice, as well as Death of a Salesman, The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliott, Everyman, Aesop's Fables, Faustus (in German), and two albums of famous British poetry. Call me a dork, but I can't wait to listen to some of them.

I know I've mentioned this before, but I'd just like to say again how much I'm looking forward to having free time and my own space this January. I know I can get my book finished if I just make the time and devote myself to it, and this is my opportunity. I'm thrilled for Dianna, that she gets to have the experience of a lifetime in England, but that's her dream. Mine can come true at the same time, here in South Dakota. And if all goes well, it won't be the experience of a lifetime, but the start of my life. It's time to move from dreaming to planning, and that starts with finish what I began so many years ago with a short story about a little green bear named Peridot.

-Kim