--Lecture notes mostly done for Friday’s Mythology class.  Must print, highlight key points and give them one more read through to see if there is anything I want to add before Friday.  Must also come up with some sort of group work relating to either goddess myths or love/marriage myths.  Hmm… Will think on it.  Maybe I’ll find a way to work romance novels into the class.

--Working on a story about sex and religion.  Still trying to figure out where it’s going.

--Wrote the following snippet because it popped into my head, but I don’t know what it’s going to be, part of a story or part of a novel idea I’m working on:

I have heard the phrase “build a better mousetrap” used to refer to keeping a faithful husband from straying.  Which basically reduces men to being nothing more than mindless rodents and the whole love, marriage, happily-every-after package to a vicious steel trap whose only purpose is to quickly capture and slowly kill.

I’m okay with that.

--Read the beginnings of my screenplay.  There’s some good dialogue there.  That gives me hope.  It’s due April 22.  That makes me panic.

--Making a to do list (already) for summer:

--Finish screenplay and enter it in the Virginia Screenwriting Competition (deadline May 23).
--Work on summer anthology deadlines (I have 10 calls for submission at the moment, that number is sure to increase).
--Finish my novel proposal for Avon Red.
--Agent hunt.  Again.
--Read, read, read (and update my GoodReads page).
--Figure out what/if I’m teaching in the fall.
--Reinvent Book Club^TM!  I have big plans!
--Chicago?  South America?  Florida?  A trip-- somewhere!

I think there will be more, but that’s a start.

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