So much to do still!

So, school is finally out for the summer, and I received 5 A’s and a B+ as my final grades. I am happy with those grades, especially as there were a few classes I was REALLY worried about!

And while it has been a few weeks since I have written anything (since school let out, actually) I do have a reason for that.

I am not home, I am in Brooklyn, packing up the Brooklyn apartment and preparing to move it all back to my house. Situations change, and we have decided that there is no need to keep the Brooklyn apartment (and it’s high rent!) any longer.

So that’s what I have been doing. Packing!

Who knew you could fit so much stuff into such a tiny apartment?!?!

On top of the packing, I am also doing some long-distance work for a movie a couple of my fellow students want to put together. A lot of messages flying back and forth about all kinds of stuff regarding that.

Then came the kicker: the accident.

Some moronic taxi driver decided to double park on our narrow street, and I was trying to get by him. In the space he left for vehicles to get through, I managed to get the Crusier through, but at the expense of the passenger mirror, which collided with the driver mirror of a van parked on the right side of the street.

I swear to god, trying to find a mirror for a Ford Van in NYC is like trying to find a needle in a mountain of frikkin’ hay! NOBODY carries it, and those that do have Ford Van mirrors show me this thing that is no way like the mirror I destroyed. So, for the last few days I have been frantically searching online for a Ford Van mirror so that I can get this poor ladies van fixed for her. Finally found one last night. Had to order the whole mirror assembly, not just the glass. Nobody sells just the glass. But that’s okay. With shipping it came to less than $50. I’ll give the guys on the corner some money to install it, and we’ll be done with it (except for the damage to my own mirror, of course. That can wait a while.)

Here’s something interesting: one of the first things Ken said to me when I got to Brooklyn was “There is a typo in your story!” Turns out that the very first piece I wrote for my Creative Writing class (“My Death Sentence”) had the wrong word it from day one, and nobody, including myself or the professor, caught it!

I have fixed the error here on the website. It is in the very first paragraph: the word SMELL was written as SMALL. Didn’t make a single bit of sense with the wrong word, yet all of the people who read it from January on looked right past it.

Now I just need to fix it in the original file once I am back in J-Town, as I still plan to publish it and the rest of the stories through LULU (or some other site I might find).

Once I have sent it off for publication, I will be removing the stories from this site. Just thought I would warn you now.

Anyway, it’s almost 12:30 in the morning, and I have to be up early to move the Cruiser before I get a $200 parking ticket for not moving it for street cleaning.

Catch y’all later! (I just love it when a little bit of North Carolina comes back to me!)