{"id":2771,"date":"2006-11-08T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:51","slug":"no-more-school-no-more-books-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"No More School, No More Books, No More Crabby Teacher’s…"},"content":{"rendered":"
My life of crabby hermitude has resumed! I am finally happily ensconced, recovering from the brush with actual employment that was my last bout of substitute teaching. And I can say with joy that today no one has throw up on me, nor have I had to dry out shoes and reassure anyone short that yes, even big kids have accident sometimes.<\/p>\n

Substitute teaching: the reason my junior high dream of having twelve kids will never <\/em>come true.<\/p>\n

I’m now catching up with the news that has bypassed me while I was being proactive and bright and smiley and telling everyone Good Morning!,<\/em> instead of grousing into my morning tea and hacking out my novel — first, today, an unpublished poem written by Sylvia Plath<\/a> will be published in an online journal. The discovery of a student, this poem was written while Plath was in college, and looks like it was actually a writing exercise, as they include two versions of the poem<\/a>. Check it out!<\/p>\n

Also news to me is that Garrison Keillor has opened<\/a> an independent bookstore. I am SO JEALOUS<\/strong>. He is stocking only his favorite books, which, if you’re famous and already financially secure, you can do. See I <\/em>wanted to do this. I wanted a bookstore called Bluestockings. <\/em>I envisioned shelves carrying slim volumes of Sarah Orne Jewett and random titles from Kate Chopin, Maureen Johnson, Madeleine L’Engle, Ursula LeGuin and Garrett Freymann-Weyr, and others who write compelling, interesting, risky <\/em>novels. And now Mr. Keillor has stolen my idea. Pffffft.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While I am reading some really great novels for the YA Cybil<\/a> (and I am LOVING what I call St. Cybils’ Day<\/em> — the UPS guy dropping off a daily load of review copies of novels from publishing houses), I am a teensy, tiny, tidge bit wistful that I’m not reading for the Sci-Fi books. I love Neil Gaiman, and I’m a bit jealous that someone else is getting to review his newest book. The New York Times reviews<\/a> Gaiman’s latest, and discusses his penchant for adding dreams and dreamscapes to his work. Which makes me smile, especially because dreams, in fiction, can either really work — or really not work, and my agent has about sixty reasons why they do not<\/em>. At any rate, Gaiman’s dreams definitely work! Speaking of work…My Cybils<\/em> novels are calling me, as is my NaNoWriMo<\/a> story, so it’s back to my REAL job! Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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