this is the first time i've been able to update in about a month. i hardly make it to the library, and when i do, diaryland says no. well, today i say yes. and here i am.

tyler got an internship for the summer at the houston museum of natural science, which is wonderful. i was very stressed about it, as it means we will have to move to houston and then back to nacogdoches again at the summer's end and that's a lot of moving. it is doubly hard to find a decent, cheap place to stay when you have one huge dog, no matter how friendly and sweet he is. however, thanks to the powers of craig's list and the magic of subletting, i think we're going to be okay. i found a bunch of pet friendly places this morning, all in the right area, and have been sending out emails. we still have about a month to find a place, and i'm sure something will fall into our laps at the last possible moment. and as far as finding a place when it's time to come home, well, i'll cross that bridge when i come to it.

still don't know what i'll do for a job once in houston, but i'm sure that'll work out too. maybe tyler will make so much money and our rent will be so cheap that i can just write and walk the dog and enjoy life in a big city. that, i think, would be just lovely.

i have been reading a lot lately, am obsessed with a man named dave eggers who is my new literary hero, have even been taking on his habits of grandiose run on sentences and sweeping metaphors lately. this is a good thing. it's good to be inspired, to fall in love, to feel things deeply, hugely. plus mr. eggers runs an online and print literary mag called "mcsweeney's" which of course accepts submissions. which of course means now i am writing for dave, for his magazine, with the idea that it will be so brilliant he will desperately want to meet me and not the other way around.

and i guess that's all. four weeks should have yeilded something more dramatic, but this, this, this will have to do.

mua.