Trashed Titles

This has been more difficult than working with InDesign. It's just wrong. I may have lost some sleep last night over not having a title I love.

Here's a list of titles I will NOT be using for my book.

Scalded Oatmeal with New Milk
To Understand Water
Where the Water Scalds
Sometimes You Just Have to Go Through the Yard
Old Spice and Kitchen Knives
Marriage: a Timeline
The Open Hole in the Fence
Milk Swirls in Black Tea
An Ocean of Teeth
Cocoons in a Mulberry Bush
A Leather Whip On My Heart
A Slide to the Ocean
One Chocolate Pudding Cup
Algae Growing on a Jagged Rock
Two Sailboats that Cannot Dance
The Only Way Out
Between Naked Birch Trees
The Figure of a Man

I give up for a few days.

Today's Thoughts

My book is never going to have a title. Nothing is right. And I was just told to search for words or phrases from poems to find something. Isn't that what I've been doing?! Yeah. Not helpful advice. Hopefully Kendra will have something better to say. I kind of like one from my list, but I really don't know how that's going to translate to a concept.

People should listen when coworkers offer their opinions. If person A is way more knowledgeable about a subject, person B should probably go with what person A says. Instead person B will probably just pick something cause she likes it. So annoying.

I am really upset about something and think I'm being irrational.

Apparently you can chew or brew (in a tea) morning glory seeds, then ingest, and get high. They did this in the 60s. It made a comeback in teens in the last few years. My cousin decided to try it. I'd like to slap some sense into that kid.

If I go to Evan's graduation I will probably have to sit down and eat a meal at the same table as my step-father. Who I haven't seen since I moved to Baltimore. I will probably end up vomiting if I try this.

Unless said step-father ends up going somewhere (read, I'm not telling where yet, but I do know the specific location) before said graduation. I kind of feel bad for hoping he does go. But I shouldn't.

I don't know if I can watch the next season of Top Chef. They have obviously gone mad at judge's table. Hosea, you did not deserve to win. Carla and Stefan, WTF?!

I will not be naming my dog Chili-Chili Taco, no matter what my dreams tell me to do.

Maine or Massachusetts?

I wanted to go somewhere spectacular after graduation. I wanted to treat myself to a great vacation, one I probably wouldn't go on except to celebrate something great. I have since decided it will not be as exuberant as I had imagined. But I still want to take a nice vacation sometime. We'll probably go to the Outer Banks again in August, but I want to go somewhere in July. Am I being spoiled by two vacations every summer? Maybe. But if I can continue to work a part-time job where I am not limited by my vacation days, I'm going to do it.

Anyway, today I am thinking I want to go to Maine. I always figured if I went all the way to Maine I would explore that area of Canada as well. But maybe not. Maine sounds great. It was always one of those places that was just so far away. It's a little closer now. Acadia, perhaps. Has a nice ring to it. They have mountains in Maine, or so I've been told.

Or maybe Massachusetts. I've always wanted to go. That might even include a trip to... a city. Yes I said it. I might actually take a vacation that involves a city. So unlike me. But it's Boston. One needs to go to Boston sometime, right?

Maybe the answer is to road trip and hit both. Though that is probably too much. I'd rather lounge around one place for a week.