Wednesday, July 19, 2006

squee!

i've always written.
in 2nd grade i wrote stories about smart, nosy girls solving mysteries like What Was in the Janitor's Bucket.
in 5th grade i wrote a sci-fi story about an invasion from mars and how a ship of women saved the world while their boyfriends got shot. (i also bound and made the cover for it.)
in junior high i wrote gothic stories of victiorian ladies who were locked in rooms, broke out and shot their captors. (sensing a theme?)
in high school, i wrote plain stories about people living in los angeles in an existential torpor.
in college and grad school, fiction died and then i started to write self-aware, dry, academic things - conference papers, research papers, drafts for articles, book reviews.

and during all of this i scribbled in my journal - drew maps, made lists, sketched folks i saw on the bus. i traced my sexual (non)development, bitterly chafed against my baptist bonds, wrote more fragments of stories about being religious, funny stories about the latest boy i was stalking (oh, Knightley). so i've always written. and written. and written.

but today was the first day i actually got a check for it.

(the current issue of geez, kids! i'm in it!)

9 comments:

bitchphd said...

Congrats!! Come here and rub some of that on me!!

jp 吉平 said...

Congratulations, now become famous and hire me as your house boy.

Anonymous said...

Yay! Congratulations!

Delia Christina said...

i'm sending good writer vibes to all y'all.

and jp, you could be my houseboy but you'd have to move to chicago. you hate the midwest. i couldn't have a disgruntled houseboy.

(sigh. that really would be nice. houseboy.)

Unknown said...

Congratulations!

Sid said...

yay! congrats!

Delia Christina said...

thanks!
it's a teeny check, but it's the first one, just the same. i'm proud of it.

Orange said...

Congrats!

Since it's a teeny check, maybe we could split JP's house boy services and the $.

Delia Christina said...

why not?
5 mos with me and 5 with you, 2 for vacation. (no one can be a constant houseboy.)

you know, we could probably get a houseboy if we advertised on craigslist. real cheap.