Rising Up b/w More Good News

A few things:

I’ll be the first to admit that I have an undying love for The Roots, but recent albums have not completely grown on me, but I think Rising Down, their upcoming album, may change that if the single they posted on their site the other day is any indication. If you haven’t listened to it, go to www.okayplayer.com and listen to the song Rising Up on the news entry for 3/28/08. I really have listened to it 5011 times since Friday.

Next, I have been ripping and running the last three weekends in a row and for as tired as I am, I think it was well worth it. I got to see my family for the first time in almost 4 months and my little sister got to spend time here in NJ with me. I didn’t get to do everything I wanted to do with her, but we still had a good time.  I saw my oldest friend and my godchildren when they came to visit two weeks ago and I got to be part of a nice family weekend with my cutie and some of his family.

Now onto the the good news! So I was offered a summer class by one of the schools I teach at and hopefully I’ll be offered one at the other. Also, the last day to apply for the diversity faculty fellowship I applied for is tomorrow.  I’m thinking in the next few months they will be announcing who won. I’m not quite sure how many are being given out, but I’ll stick to what my mom said. When I told her about it she said, “That’s already yours.” I really am going to stick to that and wait for the news to come.

Despite getting back to back journal rejections, I do have a bit of good news when it comes to writing. I answered a call for writers for a literary magazine called Mosaic. After a few e-mails and a couple of samples, I received word yesterday that I am going to be added to the writer’s roll to write book reviews. I need to send a pitch in for the first one and I’m still waiting on the editorial call, but I am very excited. I also still  have a few poems and reviewer pitches pending so maybe those will come out well too.

More later!