you live your life as if it's real

 I submitted my poem, "Paradise is a World of Trees," to newWitch on the 13th. Got a rejection today. (First rejection ever, actually, since I still haven't heard back from my other submission). I'm not too down about it, and actually pretty happy that it was so fast. I like this poem a lot, so I'll send it out again. Haven't figured out where yet, but I'll find somewhere.

My apostrophe/quote key is sticking and it's really frustrating. Apparently my right pinky finger isn't very strong.

Today was the dance recital, and now I'm really tired. Dance recital and then grocery shopping = sore, sore feet. It was fun though... obviously about a thousand things went wrong, but overall I think everything came off pretty well. Our Clocks choreography was hilarious cause none of us knew what we were doing at all, but the one dance mom I talked to said it looked good. Then again, moms (even if it's not my Mom) are pretty much obliged to say that.

Most hilarious thing ever though... our choreography to Mairi's Wedding (except we changed songs a couple weeks ago, but never changed the title of the dance, and my teacher spelt it Marii instead) ended with a ten person reel. Basically we were just doing highland reel movements, weaving in and out to get off the stage. Anyways, for some reason we only had 9 dancers today, and so two of the girls mucked up the reel formation and totally smashed into each other hahahahhah. Seriously like full body collision. I managed to avoid also being hit, but it was almost a four person pile up. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard as soon as I got offstage.

Now no more dancing for me until the Cambridge Highland games. Oh that reminds me, bluebonnets, do you know if anyone from KR's is going to that? It should be a good time. I'm dancing in the ceildh July 18th, and volunteering for the competition on the 19th and 20th.

Because I don't know what else to do with this, have some melodramatic!poetry (also, by extension, shitty!poetry):

Quand T'es Parti

Je ne peut rien penser sauf
Tu me manques,
Je ne peut rien dire sauf
Je t'aime encore,
Je ne peut rien sentir
Quand t'es parti. 
 

This got me thinking though -- someday, I'd love to start up a 'zine for bilingual English-French short fiction and poetry. It would be geared towards Canadians (could probably get an arts grant for it), and would have an equal number of English and French works published in it. Not only that, but it would also encourage works that combine both languages together within the same poem/story. As far as I know (and I don't know much, since I haven't gone searching),  there's nothing like that out there currently. Who knows, there's probably something similar started up already, I hope there is. But if not, well, then maybe someday I will start it. Cause I think it's a damn good idea.

What do you guys think, crazy idea or workable idea? (Or "run a damned Google search already, Lillian, it's been done" ?) 

ETA: Did a Google search -- found this site, which will be useful for market hunting, and specifically aea magazine, which does accept submissions in both English and French. From a quick scan, though, that seems to be the only one listed there.

'Cause the silliness struck. This one's for you, srness and Salem. -grin-

Look, Salem: Mirelle
Intelligent, ambitious,
and what a nice rack!