![Summer Fun](https://blogs.colum.edu/marginalia/files/2014/07/photo-22.jpg)
Summer Fun
If you recall from my last post, I recently signed for a new apartment. Well, now moving day is almost here! I’ve been trying to get my stuff together and pack this place up, but let me tell you, in a space as small as my current apartment, it’s hard to find a place to put all the boxes. I’ve been packing bit by bit over the past couple days and will have every moved in on Sunday.
What else have I been up to since my last post?
First, there was the Pitchfork Festival where I spent most of my time at the Book Fort, but did get a chance to check out some excellent bands, including Neutral Milk Hotel, who I have been wanting to see for years! At the Book Fort I got the chance to hear some amazing readings thanks to Tiny Hardcore, Curbside Splendor, Pitchfork, CCLaP, POETRY, Columbia College Chicago, and The Marrow.
![Readings at the Pitchfork Book Fort](https://blogs.colum.edu/marginalia/files/2014/07/photo-32-500x500.jpg)
Zachary Schomburg, John Beer, Hannah Gamble, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson reading at Pitchfork Book Fort
I’ve also been taking some time to enjoy my neighborhood and the city. Last Sunday a poet friend and I checked out the Poetry Slam at the Green Mill, a short bus ride north of us. It was a great time with a really engaged audience. And we ended up being judges of the slam!
In addition to packing and poetry, I’ve been gearing up for orientation and the fall semester. I can’t wait to meet the newest cohorts of MFA students in the Department of Creative Writing and I’m equally excited to meet my new class of Writing and Rhetoric I students.
Anyways, I gotta get back to packing. Expect more details on the new place, orientation, and new semester in my next post!