Notes

Wednesday afternoon - MFA program meeting. Jonathan Franzen is coming to Ann Arbor! Maybe Amy Tan too. Ha Jin may teach at U of M the next academic year. A new opportunity to spend a month in Ireland. Thomas Lynch, one of the writing instructors, who's also an undertaker (he owns a funeral home), has generously offered his family's cottage in Ireland to a deserving writer for the month of May. Very popular idea - looks like everyone is applying. Including me.

Wednesday evening - I went to dessert paradise, La Dolce Vita, with Irene, where we had Spanish Coffee (think cinnamon-on-fire, literally), banana bread pudding, caramel cappuccino, and pumpkin tart. Irene said our waiter looked Korean, and he addressed her very politely as Ms. Hahn when he took her credit card. We stayed longer than we expected, discussing marriage, children, dating among Koreans, the Han family line, the three Kim lines, writing, teaching, where she'll go next year, where I'll go next year. We bumped into another MFA fellow who was there with his fiance.

Thursday - attempting to revise a story, failing, and despairing.