in happier news, feeling really creative lately. driving around in my car and having ideas and thinking about my projects is making me happy. like, high, almost. praying a lot more lately too. this is also making me happy.
i'm so tired.
oh, by the way, i didn't get invited to submit a CC grant. but it's OK. i'm not surprised. i'll just focus on other stuff. and it's not like i don't have enough to get done as it is.
the notification of whether applicants have been selected to submit a full application for a creative capital grant is supposed to be in june. i don't think i made it to the second round. i found this yesterday, and i didn't get a little email notification this week. so.
i've been dying to know for sure, so i emailed creative capital's generic info address. the reply i got just now said "Letters went out yesterday so you will hear very soon!" so i imagine this will be an "i'm sorry, there were so many fantastic applications but we didn't choose YOURS!" letter.
in any case, putting that little preliminary inquiry proposal to CC together has helped me draft other proposals, including one that got me a nice little handful of $$ to help with developing my project over the summer, and possibly a commissioning opp. so, it's all good.
hurricane season. it's peeing all over south florida right now. it's just a tropical depression, or something, drifting from cuba up to the gulf of mexico, but all this rain is dumping out into our parking lot right now. it just reminds me of last summer, all the sitting around inside watching bad weather out the window. it's OK though, hopefully i'll get some hardcore cleaning and organizing done today. or maybe not. scratch that last sentence.
neri torres was named woman of the year by glamour magazine??? i'm listening to south florida arts beat right now. hmmmm.
i have cramps.
i feel like drinking more coffee. i won't today, because i drank too much of it yesterday and got all wonky and anxious by the end of the day.
my favorite new nerdy web organizing tool of the day is backpack.
i like salad, but i am not big on making them myself. i'm more of a stew and chicken-and-rice kinda girl, in terms of things i like to make in the kitchen. but i decided to increase my salad intake again recently and made this and it's really yummy:
mixed baby greens (pre-washed, yadda yadda yadda) cucumber sliced into half-moons (i hate dealing with huge slabs of cucumber in a salad) cherry tomatoes (i also hate huge slabs of tomato in a salad) jicama (sliced thin, first time i have ever made anything with this ingredient) garlic croutons feta cheese
it's good with italian/vinaigrette/greek dressing, but today i had some with bleu cheese (which i realize is sort of overkill with the feta cheese), and it was good too.
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