all the writing things!

[carlyinrome]

yuletide assignments have been sent! THE EXCITEMENT BEGINS. My assignment is actually one of the letters I had bookmarked for a possible treat, so I'm pretty psyched.

I have also broken ground on a personal project I've been mulling over for some time. Thinking about the atelier program (which I have not decided on; I am still unclear about how it will affect my social security, and I just ... am having do I deserve this? insecurities) and a longform project that I am really passionate and excited about, I have written the first few pages of what I hope will one day be my first novel.

My little sister is turning 30 on Thursday, and we are celebrating tomorrow night because she's leaving Thursday for a long birthday weekend with friends in a beach house in Charleston. Thursday morning, I have my followup appointment with the thoracic surgeon, who will tell me whether I need to have my gall bladder removed, or any other treatment or surgery.

The atelier program application is due in two and a half weeks, so I have some thinking to do. I may be having an organ removed. I am writing a novel, and my sister is three decades old, and Christmas and 2018 are just barreling down on me. I feel like everything is happening really fast.