jeez...i feel like it's been forever since i saw this screen last.
i've got a spider bite on my forearm. i didn't major in journalism, but don't be surprised if crime rates plummet in your area... cuz when this girl emerges as SpiderWoman i'll be an ass kickin' mothah fuckah...
ahh, anyway, there is absolutely nothing happenin in my neck o' the woods if you don't count gorgeous sex and sun bathed skin and little red Chunk shoulders and the promise of a little minor league action this weekend when Canada meets the Dirty South.
i must second my fellow diarylandess who noted how hard it is to write here when life's going good and i'm feelin' loved and beautiful and bad things are happenin to people who aren't me.
of course, i have another outlet again. for a while i simply could not stand to look at my novel, but recently i've been laying it on thick. perhaps the distance between me now and me directly Post-Thesis has grown enough that i can stomach my characters again. for awhile they were too strong, too staunch, too real, for me to adequately control them. the story took on a life of it's own and i almost felt a slave to it.
i've gotten control again, though. dixie and strawberry are doing the ole dance of racial/social tension mixed with the curiosity and desire of the Other. chalo and rosa are moving apart as rosa and dixie move together and chalo falls. nita and marise are side stepping gossip and rumors while one loves timidly, the other ferociously. it's all so delicate and beautiful. i am absorbed again. as i keep saying, one day i'll post a chapter or two. my readers loved it, perhaps y'all will too.hmm... how bout a recipe thrown in for good measure. it's been a while:
double chocolate chip cookies
1 pkg devil's food cake mix
1/2 cup butter/margarine, softened
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup chopped nuts*
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
preheat oven to 350. beat half the dry cake mix, the butter, vanilla and eggs in large bowl on medium speed until smooth or mix with spoon. stir in remaining cake mix, the nuts and chocolate chips. drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are set (centers will be soft). cool one minute; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. about 5 dozen cookies.
*can be substituted with 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
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