For those playing along at home:

Oct 1 – House With Chimaeras
Oct 2 – Expert Advice for Your Flight from Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago-Midway
Oct 3 – Expert Advice for Your Televangelism Ministry
Oct 4 – While Jobless, I Eat Snack Foods With Famous People
Oct 5 – Bayside
Oct 6 – Shit-Town
Oct 7 – Actaeon
Oct 8 – Box and Whisker Plot
Oct 9 – Falsely Accused of Being a Terrorist
Oct 10 – The Dog in Me
Oct 11 – Dumpstering
Oct 12 – Long Knife Night
Oct 13 – Claudius
Oct 14 – Ghazal Without Repeated Word
Oct 15 – Sick Herd
Oct 16 – Houses On the Street Where It’s Sunny
Oct 17 – Things I Tried to Forget You
Oct 18 – Owner of a Lonely Heart
Oct 19 – Expert Advice for Your Day at the Track
Oct 20 – K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Oct 21 – Christian Radio
Oct 22 – three poems– Lossless Audio, If Only I Could’ve Considered Machu Picchu, There Has Never Been a Famine in a Democratic Country
Oct 23 – The Dog in Me II
Oct 24 – Catbird Sleep
Oct 25 – Neurotic Friend
Oct 26 – It’s Barely Living
Oct 27 – Dinner Party with Co-Workers
Oct 28 – Man, Exploding
Oct 29 – Ocean Quahog
Oct 30 – Penalty Minutes
Oct 31 – Halloween
Nov 1 – Flu Shot
Nov 2 – Idiot Plot
Nov 3 – A History of Deaths in the Colony, Complete to 1656
Nov 4 – Daylight Savings Time
Nov 5 – Birds in the Colony
Nov 6 – People Skills
Nov 7 – Endodontics
Nov 8 – How We Came Upon the Colony
Nov 9 – Spitting Images
Nov 10 – Natural Law Firm
Nov 11 – Teenage Girl in Supermarket Freezer
Nov 12 – Facts About Early America
Nov 13 – Taxidermy and Living Things
Nov 14 – Morning, Beachside
Nov 15 – crappy joke haiku which should have counted as a day off
Nov 16 – Q
Nov 17 – Last We Checked, Alacrity Was No Sin
Nov 18 – Power Suit
Nov 19 – The Dog in Me III
Nov 20 – Getting Things Done
Nov 21 – Turbulent Flight
Nov 22 – Man on Ski Lift Passes Reindeer
Nov 23 – The Oldest Workable Wood
Nov 24 – Back of the Bus
Nov 25 – Mid-Sentence, I Lose the Thought
Nov 26 – Mole Man
Nov 27 – Rosebuds After Romance
Nov 28 – The Devil Made Him a Cat
Nov 29 – day off
Nov 30 – Not If You Were the Last Man on Earth

With one of those rare clear days on my calendar, my priorities in decent shape, and only a few things that were pressing on my to-do list, I shut down e-mail for much of the day and did some writing and editing. But instead of concentrating on poems, as I was sorely tempted to do, I wrote most of a two-part series on social networking for Instructify.

And, as with a day or working on poems, I’m bushed now. To reward myself for my hard work, I hopped over to iTunes and bought Pearl Jam’s cover of The Who’s “Love, Reign O’er Me.” Say what you want about Pearl Jam– Eddie Vedder has some pipes. Fuhrillz.

I’m about to head home from work and write the last poem in my two-month grind. I took last night off– I was allowed four days off in November, and ended up taking only one.