I have decided to apply for the Amy Lowell poetry traveling fellowship but not until 2012 your suppose to leave North America for a year which I thought would be a problem for me because of my PCA services but according to their website you can come back to North America for a short period of time should you need to.

I figure i would just try to schedule my revaluation around the same time as my skills trainer visit maybe i could even combine the two experiences (if I get someone from Stavros to be on side and not rat me out to MassHealth- Massachusetts Medicaid) or maybe i can get an extension or perhaps I will just use the fellowship money to pay someone to be my PCA).

I don't know what I am going to do but I do know I want this fellowship. My biggest problem is convincing my mother that the world wont end if I miss one Christmas (2012) we can have it when I get back!

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I'm trying to get home for Christmas, as you know. I left my house and about midway through the van ride to the train station. I realized that I'd forgotten my medicine. I called Amy in a panic and had her drive the meds to me at the Springfield train station. Lucky she could! Demi came along, too, to help her with directions.

But when we get to the station, we find out that our train was going to be 2 and a half hours late. That means I'll miss the last train to Harrisburg and my parents house. After a series of frantic phone calls to the 'rents, it was decided that I would go back home and they would come get get me in the repaired van tomorrow. Maybe I'll have time to hit the library before they get here. Although that will be one cold walk! It's freezing here.

So, I tried to call Amy and Demi and tell them not to come (as I was going back home anyway). But Demi forgot her phone, so no luck there. Ivy is making me dinner and it smells awesome! Let's eat!

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Let's see. Update. What should I tell you? Still single. Bah humbug. Finished my poems for the poetry competition and submitted them. Didn't chicken out because my childhood idol poet is the judge. Fairly proud of myself about that. Had another visit to the ER because the knee was acting weird. God, I hate the ER. Now, they referred me to a pain specialist which I wanted before but no one would refer me too. I think they're just tired of me coming in there.

Spent lots of time planning this crazy three day novel adventure. One of the things I'm doing to prepare is getting my guest room ready for my typist to come and stay over. In order for that to happen, I need to get a new vacuum, new sheets, and move my extra chairs against the wall. I've already drafted a specific assistant to this job.

In other news, I'm going to the NAMAC conference in Boston. I hope my knee doesn't give me any trouble. It seems to be on a two week cycle. It'll be fine and even seems to be getting better. But then, exactly fourteen days from it's last flair it will act up again. I know. I've been keeping track. Oddly enough, I'm starting to dread Saturday. The next flair day if this schedule keeps up is during the three day novel contest. That's totally unacceptable. I'll go to the doctor and see what he can offer me. I'll even take scary drugs or consider surgery and for me, as you know, is a lot. But, I just want it to stop and my life to go back to normal.

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