Well it has been a month since I noted how I am doing, so let's do it again!

--Writing. Not getting along with people at work sure helped me write a lot a couple months ago! Better relationships are good though, so I won't complain about that. Kayla came for a visit as well, and that, combined with losing 3 staff members within a month and the huge desire to be outside and in the springtime sunshine, enjoying the cherry blossoms in their fleeting beauty... Anyway, it has been stupid busy. So I haven't been writing daily, but I have published my first article ever, lined up another for publication, and have been asked to write a third one, the longest yet! I also submitted some poems to Tyler's journal; I got a form-letter reply saying they'd contact me so who knows what's going on with that. Either way, it is a submission done and with the one I do this April, I will be on pace for submissions.

--Reading. I knocked off The Tipping Point, and GTD. I am still staring at The Odyssey and dreading the enormity of the reading to go. It isn't the novels, it is the poetry anthologies. Anyway, deal with that later. I am swapping out Lost Japan for another book I already have and which is more pertinent to my current situation: Kyoto by John Dougill. So far it is a great account of the immense history this city has. I am not a big fan of "and in 1209 such and such said this and so and so reacted by writing a thinly veiled haiku" history style; fortunately this book divides the facets of the city by theme and traces the themes over time. I also got my hands on a free copy of On Writing by Stephen King, so I figure I'll read that instead of rereading If You Want to Write.

--Japanese. Nothing doing. Lameness. I am going to go to a pretty secluded island for my vacation this spring though, so I am planning a big cram session before I go. Hopefully I'll come back after having some good language experiences and will be further energized.

--Photography. I am behind by about 300 photos, my new memory card seems to have a bad sector which corrupted a whack of photos from Kayla's visit, but on the plus side, the weather is great for photography, I love photos of cherry blossoms, I bought my first tripod set up last weekend and I started taking my first night photos, which turned out badass. I'll likely have no problem shooting over 200 during my 9 day vacation as well.

--Work. Work at Aeon is totally fricken crazy right now. Combine that with the extra Saturday lessons I am doing, plus the occasional sunday open, and my last full day off was nine days ago. Thus we have the reason for an apartment in total disarray. Good money though, and it helps the transition to whatever it is that I am going to do after Aeon.