Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

Having a wonderful lazy day today. And yesterday was so damn productive!

I wrote 2 fragmentary poems - the exercise was called a glose - Spanish word, where you get four lines of another poem, copy it to make it the beginning of your poem then you write a free verse poem that is related to the lines you’ve quoted - it can be related in any way, you can discuss the lines, build on them, pick them to shreds, whatever. So yes, I wrote two of those and might do a few more today if I can find some appropriate poems. Now I’m feeling the pinch of not being around my beloved poetry collection! I also wore a ritual oil which is supposed to help inspire creativity, I wonder if it worked? I’ll have to test it on my friend M I think who is also a writer.

Last night I dined with my family, which was lovely. We went to a local Italian restaurant and I had half a dozen oysters natural with chopped shallots and aged wine vinegar, then as a main crumbed cheese-stuffed zucchini flowers with cherry tomatoes and salsa verde. For dessert I had zuppa inglese (which is the fancy Italian way of saying trifle - I got a tad too excited about trifle on the menu which resulted in my father berating me for my child-like enthusiasm) but also got a taste of Mum’s panna cotta which was what I was going to originally order (by the way, I’m listing these descriptions for the benefit of my lovely girlfriend L whose food entries in her own blog always leave me salivating).

I did eventually turn up to a party that my housemate had invited me to and had a bit of fun there…I was a bit nervous, not really knowing anyone but I think I managed to appear pretty socially ‘regular’ for a change. I was greeted at the door by some lads who insisted upon my drinking of hooch (95% alcohol - it nearly made me puke, I swear) and then after that it was chased down by some decent homebrew. The party was for the election (Australia just had a federal election) and (Australian) Labor won, so no more John Howard, w00t! So yeah, overall I had a really nice time and I’m really glad I went. I still can’t get over how well I seem to be doing with just everything this week. Perhaps I really am on the mend…for good!