The Books

Here's the good news: Yesterday I got great books in the mail from Good Pal Menosky. A Book by Mordecai Gerstein and The Plot Chickens by MJ and H Auch. If you teach writing or reading, you will probably want these books asap. I read them to Husbandman and he liked them both. And that's high praise indeed.

But here's the sad thing. Another good friend has a book for me, and she called me twice to tell me that she's even going to drop the book off at my house (!) , and I didn't return her phone calls. And now I'm afraid to call her to say I can come pick up the book. I get myself into these things fairly frequently. I'm supposed to go to another testing workshop this week and I was supposed to fill out a form and I didn't do it and now it maybe TOO LATE!!!! Why didn't I just fill it out? I had time. And my mom had her birthday and I actually HAVE her gifts now, but I keep not sending them. Bleh. So disappointing.

It's clear that I have some significant character flaws. I should join a 12 step for people who don't like to answer the phone and who don't like to fill out forms, and who are always late with birthday gifts. Step One is done, as you can see. I need to move on to Step 8 asap.