10 things that Happened in November

1. I went back to London twice and to Edinburgh once. Things I did include: tour the Tower of London, eat a lot of cheese samples at Borough market, visit the Tate Modern, hear a lot of bagpipes, hike half of Arthur's Seat, run around the Edinburgh zoo like a five-year-old, and become a regular at the Elephant House.

First visit to Elephant House!

Sippin' cocoa like a boss. A sleepy,
post-six-hour-train-ride boss.

Arthur's Seat.

       














2. I fell in love with Kit Smart and his poems, because they gave me comfort that other people's minds work in similar ways to mine. I then discovered he did most of his writing in an insane asylum.

3. I wrote a play! Not the 50 page play I have to submit in under two weeks, a different one. 25 pages that I wrote in under two days, then spent about a week editing. I'm really proud of it. I think it's one of the best things, if not the best thing, I've ever written.

4. I wondered (and am still wondering) how I can write a 25-page play so easily, yet when it comes to things I actually have to turn in I can't seem to get anywhere.

5. I saw an opera called The Yellow Sofa, and fell madly in love with the pianist. Because 1) we all know I have a thing for pianists (we don't? now we do!), and 2) he had so much joy on his face during the entire performance. He never stopped smiling. He was completely alive and engaged and had so much passion for what he was doing, and I want to do something like that. I also saw the most incredible piece of student theatre at UEA, and last week saw The Importance of Being Earnest for the first time.

6. I discovered quite a liking for butternut squash.

7. I lost a glove.

8. I realized how much I'm ready to go home, and how much I'm not ready to leave.

9. I started looking at Creative Writing MFA programs. Because clearly the best way to procrastinate on writing one play and two essays is to start freaking out about the future.

10. I typed up this blog post in another attempt to procrastinate. So here you go, a very brief version of the month of November.