Because it’s not really news, any of it. So just because I’m only averaging one blog post a quarter doesn’t mean I can call it a newsletter. And “quarterly blog” sounds stupid. So I’ll just go about business as usual and pretend that it’s acceptable to administer a blog that only has about 5 updates a year.
ANYHOW, here are some lists:
MUNI
-I took MUNI once last month. Nothing of note happened. More than I can say for the woman who got stabbed with a fork on the 22 a few weeks ago.
-This is a two item list. The second item is just to say that the first item is really the only thing to note about MUNI.
LITERARY
I have lots of things that you can read, if you are in the middle of something you don’t want to do and feel like procrastinating. Here they are, with the most recent first.
-Review of Barry Graham’s Nothing or Next to Nothing in the latest issue of American Book Review. Even if reviews aren’t your thing, you should still read the book. Also, error correction for said review: there is a reference to oatmeal in the review that SHOULD be a reference to Cream of Wheat. I was craving oatmeal a lot when I was pregnant, and this is duly reflected in my inaccurate citation.
-A poem up in the really wonderful and recently created Thrush Poetry Journal.
-A short short out in the Pachydermini e-chap series by Turtleneck Press.
-A story up at Strange Horizons, all speculative fiction culture.
-A poem up at NAP. About birds and attempted suicide – what else is there to write poetry about, really?
-An audio adaptation of A Simple, Rigid Structure (originally published by Barrelhouse) in My Audio Universe.
-A story up at HOUSEFIRE. Also about birds. I mean, let’s be honest. You know it an I know it: the only thing I ever write about is birds.
BABY (WITH A LITTLE BIT OF TMI)
-Roxy is really fucking cute. This is another example of something that is not news.
-We’ve been “crying it out” with her this week. Which means forcing her to nap in her crib, without rocking her and singing for 20 minutes first, and without having my hand on her for the entire duration of all of her naps, which had formerly been the case. It seems to be working (aside from the part where I listen to her crying, and then I start to cry because I feel like my heart is being scooped out by a very large mellon baller). She is taking just three long naps during the day, instead of a half hour nap every hour, and she’s in a much better mood. Sometimes, she goes to sleep when I put her down without any crying. Other times, like right now, I put my headphones on full blast to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah while her father (a saint) monitors her sobs.
-One thing Roxy doesn’t have a problem with is sleeping through the night. So much so, in fact, that (maybe TMI? alert) after going for 10 hours straight without a baby sucking on them, my boobs decided that there must be no more baby and therefore, no need to make any more milk. Luckily I have a doctor who has no qualms about prescribing medicine for just that problem,which is available in Canada, but not the U.S., since our healthcare and pharmaceuticals oversight kind of sucks.
OTHER ITEMS OF NOTE
–Baby rhinoceros
-I burst into tears when I found out Maurice Sendak died.
-And to bring it back around to happy, here is some hamster on gerbil action
{ungraceful animals} 
