here's what i've been doing instead of blogging.

• Starting a new job
• Watching college basketball, for reasons still unknown to me
• Going to friends' art shows, wishing I'd brought my checkbook
• Spending a memorable/unmemorable weekend in New York
• Beginning a collection of empty Cherry Coke Zero cans on my coffee table
• Throwing dinner parties
  
• Writing a novel, I think
• Not showering
• Trying to go to poetry slams, but failing and getting tapas and half-priced wine instead
• Having non-fiction related panic attacks
• Learning how to drive in snow, learning when to not drive in snow
  
• Calling 55 degrees "a beautiful, warm day"
• Leaving my gloves at work
• Leaving my sunglasses at work
• Leaving my hat at work
• Leaving my homework at work
• Leaving my keys on my desk, in my locked office, at work
• Leaving the district, at most, once a month
• Thinking about how to maintain relationships
• Thinking about how to start relationships
• Thinking
• Not thinking
• Reading (gasp!)
• Never leaving the Battelle-Thompkins building at American University
• Except right now, sitting in my messy apartment, celebrating the start of spring break with Jack Johnson and an 11 AM blog, since I went to sleep at 10 PM
• Missing you.