have I been?
Sick and boring. And the other Melissa is in hell with grad school (sleeping roughly 18 hrs a week, freaking out, etc.), which means I am in hell right with her.

My reading list is enormous and growing. And, yes, Ms. Bond, your manuscript is on top. 🙂

The band is a memory at this point. We have an entire album worth of songs to finish recording and no time and/or energy to actually do it. Also the other Melissa’s grad work is hogging up all the computer memory so where would those poor audio files go?

Also, I began this blog to ‘write’ the ‘novel’ that I won’t write any other way. The ‘growing up gay with my gay Mom in the conservative South’ novel that everyone apparently wants to read but no one would every publish. I just can’t take it seriously so I’ll be posting installments here rather than thinking ‘novel’ and cringing every time I look at it. Because it so isn’t. It’s just a bunch of weird shit that happened. The only thing that makes it a story is that it has a beginning and things happen to a central protagonist. So far there is no ending because I haven’t grown up and don’t plan to. See the problem?