Jacquelyn's Space

Today was an awesome day! I was smiling on the ride home from school. Finally a good one and one spent away from the kids– imagine that! I feel bad for my poor husband though. He was the one stuck with the kids all evening and he had a sore throat this morning.

I am taking another Shakespeare class so my day started off performing. I got to be King Lear today, yelling out at a storm (I was pelted with Legos by the class to mimic rain). We are working with King Lear all semester long and collaboratively writing a play centered on Flint issues. It should be interesting. Dr. Kietzman is an awesome professor and always has great activities in class.

After class I had to take care of some red tape– signing up for the Shakespeare class as an independent study. That went much better than expected considering I messed up at school all last year (because of depression and my family issues, grrr) and I think some professors wonder about me. I also had a great chat with Dr. Kietzman and she made me feel better about some of what I was going through academically last year– it wasn’t all me, some of it was actually the professors and their boring classes.

Once I got all the boring stuff out-of-the-way I was able to spend about 3+ uninterrupted hours in the library working on my poetry for creative writing; we are working on haiku. Spending 3+ hours on writing is truly wonderful. It also went much better than expected and I came up with about 23 haiku I could work with (I only needed 17), most of them in the library today. I even have a set of related ones that tell a story. Surprisingly, I got done earlier than expected and was able to get some tea before class. YAY!

Then I was on my way to my evening class, which was great! Free books– who can beat that! Thank you Jan Worth-Nelson!

We work-shopped our haiku in class; it was excellent. Class is small– only 7 people. I enjoy haiku– it is easier for me to work with– not so long. So many awesome haiku and there was lively discussion about words and writing. I missed that! I read some of my poems last and received some nice feedback. I am not the greatest at poetry or even work-shopping so it is lovely to get complimented.

I need to brush up on my poetry terminology though because I feel like I could not add much to the discussion. I hate that I don’t remember those terms. I have a handy-dandy reference card somewhere; I must dig it out. I also should put all those terms on flashcards and study them, or perhaps make a recording to listen to. I am feeling a bit better about poetry this time around but we’ll see– I don’t get as excited as some of my classmates over it and I feel bad about that. I don’t tune into to rhythm and sound as well or get much feeling from poems initially. I don’t know why I am like that. We’ll see how I do with sonnets next week; I am trying to be upbeat.

I accomplished so much the last few days, and on very little sleep! I have had a terrible sinus and allergy troubles this month. I barely got any sleep last night because of a horrendous asthma attack. I endeavor to work through it all.

Now I need to keep this momentum going (sans allergies and asthma of course).

Of course two of my nephews (the oldest and the youngest) will not go to sleep now and are playing with Legos. The youngest, age six is showing me the angry sheep he made in school, ha ha. He also made me a Lego car though he is supposed to be sleeping.

Some triflin’ bitch, mother to my nephews (which live with me at the present time, BTW), was hitting my Mom up for money. And not in a very nice manner either. Here is the little hissy fit I had over it:

Sometimes you just wanna tell certain people, “Get a job you lazy ass whore!” Or maybe that’s just me. Triflin’ bitches be hittin’ up people for money, playin’ on their sad little sob stories full of lies. Sick to death of it!! Exploit this one and than one until you are played out and have to move on to your next victim, oops I mean lover or friend. Yeah, some people ought to be ashamed. Then again maybe I’m wrong…maybe I ought to be a little more sympathetic and understanding.

I posted that to Facebook. My cousin was like, “U must b my cuzzin!!!” You know it!

LOL– she is the cousin that always wished she was African American (shoot, I really think we have an African ancestor within the last 300 years or so, ha)  so I guess she was lovin’ my use of the vernacular. Hell, didn’t I go to school in Romulus, Michigan which is next-door to Inskter?! Ha! We keeps it real! Hahahahahaha. Oh, I suppose I should add an “up in this bitch” to that.

But really, so sick of this bitch, my former pseudo sister-in-law exploiting my mother or anyone who will listen to her for that matter. This bitch conveniently became a lesbian after spending a few weeks in jail– probably just to exploit some poor female she met there– SCARY SHIT!

Fuck that bitch, fuck that bitch. She can live in the gutter for all I care. All she seems to care about is herself and her partying. Now she is screwed. It seems my Mom refused to give this bitch some money. Bitch don’t realize her lies and attitude are played out around here. Especially when she hasn’t even been to see her boys for over 2 damn months! FUCK YOU BITCH! You are played out c u nest Tuesday.

Love this…so true. Fake people are so concerned with maintaining their image there is really nothing behind the image. It is sad because sometimes they wake up and realize just how empty they are. Some never wake up– those are the dangerous ones.

Oooh, I think I got myself the start of a novel…or at least a soap opera. LOL.

Twelve years later and it is still hard to wrap my brain around the events of 9-11-2001. It was and still is just too terrible to comprehend.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN?src=soc_fcbks

I can’t even imagine having to face the decision that this falling man had to.

–Beyond scary and heartbreaking.

I watched the old coverage today and it is still surprising, disturbing– too horrifying:

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/as-it-happened:-abc-news-coverage-of-9_11-attacks

I am thankful I was living in Michigan and insulated from the attacks. Of course that made it easier to handle …. Easier to go on with normal life as if the events of 9/11 were just a half-banished nightmare or some disaster movie.

Soon you are wrapped up in your own life again, your own personal disasters until the annivesary comes around. Do you observe the date, join in the remembrance or just keep moving on?

If Once You Have Slept On An Island

Finally made it to Mackinac Island this year. We went last week-end and stayed at the Grand. We had 2 beautiful rooms with balconies and lovely views of the Governor’s Mansion, the Fort, lighthouse, and the Straits. Even got to enjoy the pool this time, yay!! Did not want to check out. Here are a few of our formal pictures before dinner:

My husband looks good, doesn’t he? –Especially for having a heart attack and 4 stents put in 2 weeks prior to these pictures. This week-end we shall attempt to walk the Mackinac Bridge 🙂