Burying the Lead

It's amazing how quickly the days go by during the holiday season.  We are almost at the end of November.  Here are some tidbits on what's gone on + Upcoming Event at Nuyorican Poets Cafe:

Me and my mother cooked a feast for Thanksgiving.  We roasted a turkey that was so tender that the meat slid off the bone. Hoorah! And to think most everyone who sat at the table swore up and down that they didn't like turkey...we made believers out of them. An 11.3 lb turkey was stripped down to bones in record time.  hehehe.  No leftovers from that bird. It was fun to watch.  Lots of spirited talk and laughter. I'm usually such a grump during the holidays and this year I really enjoyed being around my family.  Not being in pain really helped matters.

My 6 year old and 9 year old niece stayed the night and slept in my bed which meant I slept very little / not at all that night.  At what point do two skinny minis turn into elbows / knees / kicking monsters.  Anyway, I spent most of Friday in a bit of a zombie state from lack of sleep.

Once they left I curled up into a ball on my bed and watched a long French film called Violette.  A film about the writer Violette LeDuc who Simone de Beauvoir took under her wing and encouraged to write.  What an amazing film.  I love films that depict writers. And of course this woman LeDuc raged and howled at the difficulties in her life but she continued to write.

After watching this film, I woke up, ran some much needed errands, came back home, procrastinated a bit and then went to work on the writing.  Spent some time writing up the monologue that I'm presenting at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe this coming Wednesday, Dec 3rd.  It's in conjunction with the book launch by Applause books.  I have a rough, first draft-two pages.  It's resting now.  I have to practice the thick Spanish accent and I have to write the intro to put the piece in context.  Okay, I know I've been crap about promoting upcoming events in a timely manner.  For some reason I was having an especially hard time making up my mind about showing up to this event...one night last week being unable to sleep, I finally made up my mind to just do it.  I don't know what the hemming and hawing was all about but I'll be there with bells on.

Next I have to finish up Clara Betta.  Just took a dinner break and decided to write this much needed blog entry before I go back to Clara.

Tomorrow I will give the monologue a once over--make edits/changes/deletions as necessary then ...practice, practice, practice the dialect until I have it down.  Make changes as they come to me.  That's the plan and I'm sticking to it.

Who wants a drink?!  I do, I do.  That'll have to wait 'til the work is done.  * sigh *

Peace,

L~


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