Apologies

So while I don't think anyone keeps up with this except my husband, I thought I'd post an apology for not doing anything in October through January. November I had Nanowrimo so I expected to not write much (I won by the way for the 2nd year in a row! I'm quite pleased with myself and with Trajectories from a Summer). It's hard to crank out short stories for me when so much of my attention was taken up with my novel characters. I pushed to try and finish my novel in December but I just got burnt out on writing and I have 1 more chapter left. Plus I had Christmas/Hanukkah lessons and family coming to visit. There's no excuse for October other than me just being lax in loading in the stories I'd already written. I've pre-loaded them into the 2nd week of February but I now need to get back to writing more short stories. Anyway, that's what I've been up to.

Here's a bit of whimsy from a bus ride. I was coming back on the bus to Chiyoda and i turned my music on random shuffle. Gogol Bordello's "Your Country" came on and I closed my eyes. I started singing out loud and the band popped up in the seat behind me, instraments and all. I was running up and down the seats singing the song to people on the bus and pulling them up to dance. Soon everybody on the bus was dancing, from the older men with sour expressions to the middle school students who commute so far for reasons I don't know. Even the bus driver was grooving along. We turned the bus into a giant dance party that kept going and going even after the song ended on my iphone. The party didn't end until I got off the bus and everyone was sticking their heads out and waving at me. The second I turned around the bus went back to normal as if there never was a crazy dance party on the bus. Yeah it's silly but my mind goes odd places on those 45 minute bus rides.