Family Camp

So, been away for the week, again. Got home from Japan, spent the week painting our front poch, and then left again for another week. And once I get home, I have a week to spend with my Portland cousins, who are visiting (actually, I'm going to miss the family party, so that makes me sad. TT^TT )
Now I'm volunteering at the Family Camp up at the Ananda Retreat in the woods.
It just ended this morning, and the internet is back up. XP
I've been getting a lot of writing done! And the camp was a lot of fun too.
I forget if I posted much about this on the blog. But I did that writing program up here last summer, right? And I applied for the writer's residency grant that went along with the program . I got second place, though, so didn't get to do it.
But it turns out that the guy who actually won chose this week to come up and write. So I get to meet the person who beat me out. Heheh. He's working on poetry. And he's from the midwest, and not part of Ananda. So I guess the grant was a lot more open and wide-spread than I thought. I wonder how many people actually applied...
Oh well. At least I got Saturday and Sunday last week to write, and I have all of today and tomorrow too (since the camp ended kinda early). And I have been getting a lot of writing done, even though I didn't win the Residency Grant. So it's all good.