Good news: Maud Newton throws a story into the universe, the universe throws her a $1500 prize.
Good news: I’m catching up with back issues of One Story and “Bar Joke, Arizona” is great.
Good news: My coursework at Pitt is done! I turn in my thesis this summer. Looks like my grad school GPA is 3.9. Tra la!
Good news: when you go see a blockbuster at the big old Vista theater in LA, you’ll find that the manager has dressed up as the main character. Meet Ironman.
Good news: I will be in LA for Mark Sarvas‘ Sunday night book party at Vermin on the Mount!
Good news: I have an LA apartment! Three weeks from now I’ll be living in a 1923 apartment building with a front desk and a cloverleaf pool and one of my favorite LA bars on the ground floor.
Yay for the swanky new digs! And for thesising!