Susan Senator

I am in the worst mood. I am waiting for feedback about my novel — I have completed a first draft, whoop-de-doo — and I have NO ideas. I sent a great piece to the Washington Post for Father’s Day but I think that they have blocked my email address. [Not really.] So I am going to spew out a list of my “favorite” top pet peeves (“peeves” is an awful word, perfect for an awful, irritating, nudgeball thing).

1) Editors who don’t get back to me or who reject my stuff
2) Friends/relatives who think they are editors but don’t know sh**
3) Being taken for granted
4) Summer fruit because I can’t eat it on Atkins
5) Field trips I don’t go on and feel guilty about
6)Breakfast shares and evening concerts and parent-teacher conferences
7) Failing ozone layer
8) My parents going on fantastic vacations and never taking me
9) Men/boys who can’t communicate probably because they don’t even know what’s going on in their own heads/hearts
10) No one new to flirt with – wish I didn’t need that