These are the adventures of Sandy over the last few weeks, and she is incapable at this time of sculpting them into dazzling paragraphs. Instead, she’s speaking in 3rd person, like a status update, and offering you bullet points. Twelve of these can be traded in for a sandwich at Subway.

Sandy:

• Spent five days in San Jose visiting dad, his wife, her son and their two cats who got crazy punkrock haircuts with shaved bodies and wild explosions of fur around the neck and legs. (The cats, not her family.)
• Went running through the park and played on the swing set.
• Did her taxes and is getting money back!
• Won an Award of Greatness at work.
• Was given a nice Mac laptop.
• Attended a lecture on “obsession” at the modern art museum.
• Attended a speaking engagement in Hollywood by Craig who founded the famous list. Made friends with a cool girl in line, and at the cocktail reception afterward, cowered by her side as she interrogated him about why he doesn’t try to make more money off the site. 
  
• Enjoyed fancy dinner, cocktails and flamenco music with two girlfriends at a quaint restaurant, where conversation was everything Sandy’s missed about having girlfriends. The female drought seems to be over, and Sandy is pleased. Really cool girls are an awesome thing.
• Has been crafting a query letter for her manuscript, which will be passed along to a friend’s agent.
• Has been studying Facebook for work purposes, and is now the company’s social networking guru, even though she’s still highly confused.
• Attended a Q&A with the author of an interesting book about California by a journalist born and raised here. He writes about his Armenian family’s journey to California, the immigrant farm laborer population, and much more. The promise of the West has always fascinated Sandy, who loves the stories of Steinbeck and the idea that her homeland is a place that was and still is filled with the promise of fruitfulness and gold in various forms. She thought about this on her drive up to San Jose, past open fields and rows and rows of planted crops just waiting to bear fruit—from garlic town to wine country—the land that has drawn people here in search of plenty.
• Found out that her brother has been invited to audition to be a cast member on a reality TV show about hairstylists.
• Is typing this while eating raisins.