Happy Holiday Weekend, Shock Treatment, Intro to Time Travel, and Not Having All the Answers
- At July 03, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
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I am wishing everyone a wonderful holiday weekend. We here in the NW are having record-breaking heat, which means I have to avoid being outside because I am easily scorched. In the last three days, I’ve been repeatedly shocked (nerve tests at a neurologist, this time for numbness in my arm and hands – it’s a standard carpal tunnel test, but it was miserable) and had three episodes of anaphylaxis at 2 AM (maybe related to the sun? Even my allergist is stumped.) Yes, so I am looking forward to a few days with less trauma and maybe less sun and way more antihistamines. And let me tell you, I do not think that the old-fashioned shock-therapy was a good cure for anything, after my experience yesterday! It left me with little “echo-zaps” in my arms and legs for hours – super disconcerting – and I can’t imagine someone thinking this might be good for state of mind! No thank you! Poor Zelda and Sylvia!
Thanks for all the positive feedback from my last post, but I wanted to say, I don’t really even want to pretend to have all the answers. I’m definitely still stumped by the same problems everyone else has – how do you find a good teaching job/job for a writer that pays the rent/student loans? How do you find a good publisher? Which journals do you send your work to? I still ask myself all these questions, plus more! All I can do here is entertain our thoughts and arguments about obstacles, problems, and tricky riddles – basically you’re watching my own struggles to figure out, yes, what to do next. So, you’ve published three books. What do you do with your next book? So, you’ve been Poet Laureate of a city. What do you do next? In the last few days, I’ve made some next steps – hopefully forward – and will see how they turn out. I’ve tried to make positive movements, and not only that, but tried to work with some friends to also help them make positive steps forward, because, I guess, I feel best not just when I succeed, but when I can help someone else succeed at the same time. I consider myself a fighter for sure, but I also have that weird female trait, which is, not just to conquer, but to nurture and conquer (kind of like Daenerys, the only character you can really root for in Game of Thrones. Plus, dragons! Except, so far, for me, very few dragons. I’m still hoping though! At least for some fire lizards! Oh, addendum, my friend Felicity reminds me that we also root for Arya. Of course. My apologies.)
Speaking of sci-fi references , you’re interested in my new poems, or in time travel theory, then check out this new poem, “Introduction to Time Travel Theory,” in Apex and Abyss. The poem is supposed to be in couplets, but I think it didn’t come through in the online version. Just mentally read it in couplets, then. And nerd alert: if you can catch all the pop culture references in the poem and name them, I’ll send you a mystery prize! http://www.abyssapexzine.com/2013/06/introduction-to-time-travel-theory/