back in the vienna groove ...

... or not quite. but - back we are. though i don't think i want to be. bit tired today, as i slept less than 5 hours last night - we stayed up late with our friends near graz. the weather was appalling when we got back to vienna with good old sir archibald bartholomew chesterfield flanagan (our rental car, you've got to have some style, don't you) - cold and rainy, though the sun is shining now. the plants on the balcony are thriving, it seems. there are about 15 tomatoes waiting to be eaten with mozzarella and basil tonight!

i am immensely proud of myself for not being tempted to seek out internet shops during the trip, and for not feeling the need to enter when we happened to pass one. anyway, i still wish that the first email i read at home had contained better news - the class i was supposed to teach next week had to be cancelled, which means five weeks without any income, which is a bit tough.

there'll be lots of travel pics and texts of our 18 days out there (not quite doing all of what we had intended or vaguely planned to do, but that's alright) over the next days and weeks. no poems though, i did not get around to writing one line.

you'll be pleased to see that i occasionally got something to eat along the, well, way:



i hope all's well with everyone. i'll stop by your blogs asap.

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AHHH but i HAD TO edit this first post-holiday note and add the GOOD news i received a little later this afternoon:

all five poems i submitted to wicked alice for their all alice issue have been accepted - the new issue is scheduled to be published in the second half of september.

and the hiss quarterly editors have informed me that my poem solitaire, published in their nc-17 issue, has been nominated for inclusion in sundress press' best of the net anthology.

so, double YAY! :)

song of the day: ace frehley - new york groove