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2006-11-01 @ 9:48 p.m.

I passed my IPPT! Silver, but only because it was my own unit conducting the test. Heck, it was practically just my own branch. At least that's one less thing to be bugged about. Now if I could just find out when my ATP re-shoot is going to be. I was just wondering if I'm perhaps too dismissive of my own writing. I was reading through some of my older work, and I was wondering whether Mr Purvis ever approved of any of it. Surprisingly, he has, and some of them are pieces that I thought were too simplistic, even when I was writing them. I guess what I want to inject in my writing, above all else, is wit. A lot of my poetry is essentially padding for a line or two, gems that just spontaneously pop into my head. Sometimes, I get lucky, and the end result is something surpassing my expectations, like Another Night On The Patio. Usually, it just ends up as something that would probably be classified as juvenilia if I were one of those poets having his collected poems published, posthumously or otherwise. (Well, technically most of my writing is juvenilia, since I'm not even out of my teens.) Anyway, of late I've hit a mental wall. The ideas are always there, constantly swirling as I read and add new thoughts to the mix. It's putting down the words in the best order that's hard. I'm lazy that way, and sometimes I just want to get a poem over and done with so that I can move on to the next better idea. What I need is a good editor, or at least someone who can discuss my writing with me seriously.

This month:

American Indian Heritage Month

Aviation History Month

Chrysanthemum Month

Music Month

November Flower

Sleep Comfort Month