Start of a Long Year

Of course I feel like crap.

I got an iPod Touch for my birthday (God the technology is exquisite) and I was up until almost three hacking away at my Music Library so i could also get all my photos on the beast.

Had a calf cramp in the night, thought it was gonna kill me. Feel a little hungover, have the school run and have to take PJ to the hospital. Might be a late start. So glad now that I got a bit of headway made in the arm up days.

SNAPSHOT

My office is a tip.

On my desk is:

Donald Barthelme 40 Stories
Donald Barthelme 60 Stories
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
Ruth Padel The Poem and the Journey
101 Sonnets from Shakespeare to heaney (Ed Don Paterson)
Staying Alive: Poems for Unreal Times
Doris Lessing The Fifth Child
The Letters of T S Eliot
Knut Hamsun Hunger
Saul Bellow Collected Stories
A DVD The Lives of Others
Better by Atul Gawdane
Katherine Govier The Immaculate Conception Art Gallery
Razorbill (mine)


a folder of my poems, countless magazines, an old newspaper, a mug, the new iPod, bills, soundsticks, Seventh Quark Magazine, a cheque book, bills, receipts, DVDs of photographs, a packet of pain-killers, the Complete New Yorker Portable Hard Drive


and yes it's a helluva mess


Today's prompts are:

Big isn't it?
Blue and Green is not unusual
By the St Lawrence
Cousins
Dark Blue Jeans, White T-Shirt
Does Your Mother Know?
Early Morning Coffee
Edward was explaining to Carl about levels
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Get Up, Get Up, Get Up
Goodbye Argentina
Grasshopper
He always wore one glove, carried the other
He had a heart attack and crashed his bus
Here, have this loaf of bread
I AM communicating with you
I am Old Enough to leave, So I Will
I think it was St Mary's but I'm not going to argue
I'm not DENYING anything
It was in those days when I wandered about hungry.
It's a nice addiction to have
Keep On Running
Learning Kung Fu
Leaving the Yellow House
Looking for Mr Green
Marjorie and Emily Short-cutting to school
Miss Jones wants to make love to me
Neighbours
Potassium Permanganate
Reading Chekhov
Sensible Shoes
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Sign Here, and Here, and HERE
Sometimes, I think I can hear him
Standard jewel case
Tears Flowed at the Chapel Funeral
They live in cracks, under, behind
Tigger!
Today we have a fire drills
What Kind of day Did You Have?
Whose side, your father's or your mother's?
Whose turn for the shit
Without Poetry it just isn't the same
A Silver Dish
A theft
A very small bone, broken
Air on a G String
Angel of the Great White Way
Bellarossa


I have to say today will be hard. Don't feel great, want to work out, have PJ to sort.

But I must chip away at that million.

Wish me luck.




Alex


PS I feel very old.