And now I will tell you

everything you want to know. Actually, I kind of just want to write this all here as a sort of mandatory to-do list of my life. Okay? Whatever.

So I graduated from college yesterday. A couple days before that happened, I won $1,050 in poetry prizes for some poems from my senior thesis. With that money, I am going to Lebanon in the fall. Before that, I will re-change my last name to Boulos, so I am not denied entrance into the country. After that, I will know everything there is to know about my heritage. DONE.

I'm moving to Jamaica Plain in September, to pay cheap rent and enjoy fall foliage in the arboretum (gay) until December 31st, when I will move to Los Angeles (Poetry Wasteland) to be with boyfwiend. Yesterday, my stepfather said Los Angeles is "blasé" so I think I will like it. Plus, I will probably work at the Paper Source in Beverly Hills, selling paper flower kits and obnoxious greeting cards to the stars!!!!!!!! Life rules.

This summer, there is much to do. First, I must establish a summer reading list. Then, I must find a boat and row myself out to the middle of a lake, to make myself read in total, watery isolateion. Also, I might get a tan. Jamaica Pond may provide these services to me. Otherwise, I will swim at Castle Island, road trip from Florida to New Jersey (with stops in Savannah, Asheville and many other hip Southern spots along the way!!!!), write one poem per day, and barbecue many things. Mostly corn.

And this is the summer of '09 jam, manditorily (maybe not a word).