The past few weeks have been both trying and wonderful.
I landed in the ER, then in surgery, with what I can only refer to — at this point — as Smurf Syndrome. I wrote about Smurf Sydrome in a perpetual state of observing/living/observing myself live (while on antibiotics and painkillers). So I won’t go further into it here, lest I ruin the story when/if it’s published.
The surgery and aftercare and follow-ups and future plans for more surgery have messed with both my head and my workload at school.
But. While recovering, I found out that I am officially interning at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans this summer. My dream internship. The only one I applied for. Either the Features or the News desk. No coffee. No bullshit. Writing stories. Often, stories that are my own ideas. NEW ORLEANS.
Then today, on my father’s birthday, my first piece printed in the New York Times Sunday Styles section.
The good things are some kind of armor while I truck through the rest.
Wonderful news!! I am so very, very happy for you and look forward to reading your works in the future..!!
Congrats! I want to visit New Orleans so badly. Maybe this summer. What an amazing internship that should be too! Good luck with it all.
my sincerest congratulations, lady. well the fuck done.
Awesome! Congrats, you deserve it! You inspire!
Good things happen to talented people. Better things happen to talented, good people.
Somewhere in Reading, England, a total wanker is wondering why life is so very, very, very unfair.
Have been following from afar with great interest. Amongst other things…Hello, Absurd World updates, Linebreak, the Bowery Poetry readings, the NYT and now your internship!
Thoroughly deserving, although I worry of course. Worry that you are spreading yourself too thin and turning blue as a result.
Although it is clear that there has always been enough substance to go around, there is a difference between burning brightly as you do, and burning yourself out.
I'm raising an old fashioned in your direction and toasting to both your accompolishments and your health.
Hannah, congrats on all of the exciting opporutnities you are creating for yourself! New Orleans sounds like a great place for a poet and writer to be and congrats on the article beging published too. I know all about taking the good with the bad – rest up so you'll be stronger than ever – this is just a pause before your big leap!
Cheers,Allie
Hannah, This is such wonderful news! NOLA is my second favorite city in the world, after Paris. I wish you all that is good from your experience there.
Namaste……….cj
Wow. Congratulations… this is huge news. Don't break NOLA's heart too badly.
One question: Where is the photographic evidence of your blueness? A true journalist would share pictures.
Thanks, guys.
@Chris – You're right. The program I'm in is all about burning us to the core so we can handle anything when we're out of school. But something needs to change for my sanity, and it's not the program. It's more focusing on it (poetry will always be a part of my life, but I'm not trying to do 8 things at once) and plowing through a stressful amount of work without the feeling stressed. Just doing it.
It's nice to know that you've been watching from afar. I wish that old fashioned wasn't an air cheers across continents.
@cj I've never lived anywhere besides New York. Except for a semester in Paris, and this summer, 3 months in New Orleans. We must have the same inclinations. I tend to stay in America for a while. Because I've yet to scratch the surface of knowing and exploring it. Austin is on my list of American cities to live in when I graduate. All depends on my "job" situation. But. There's no reason to think negatively about that. Unless I intend to stifle myself before I even begin.
Thank you for reading.
@Allie "…strong in the broken places…"
Don't think my obligation to The Hemingway is forgotten, by the way.
@Kim I am not a true journalist. I did take wound photos. But not blue ones. It was more like, "holy fuck, I'm turning blue — EMERGENCY ROOM." Though the urge for documentation was there once I was sliced open.
*** I meant "I intend on staying in America…"
hi
Enjoyed your stay in New Orleans. It is a beautiful place to stayed. I have so many memories in there. And just be true to yourself. You were so talented. And I am excited about your next publish in here.
That is SO great! I am not surprised people are taking notice of your talent! I work in an ER, and i am sorry you had to be in one. But when you were there absorbing the "scenery " it most likely makes for good writing fodder.
Congrats again!!! On the writing gig, not the ER….
Thank you, Australia and Nina.