Turns out Omurisu is really delicious, though I kinda messed up the omelet part. Oh well.

I've also made more progress on writing project in the last week than I have in over a year.

It's also hot.

I'm not sure I ever really woke up today due to allergies. I also can't tell if my face is puffier than usual or if I'm just noticing it more than usual. The good news is that I was with it enough to go to the staffing place and do a computer test, so they can submit my scores to this one job. It was some basic stuff like if you can copy a passage ( Read more... )

"Executive Acumen"

When I saw this in a job description I literally stopped and stared at it for a minute as I tried to understand just what the hell it means. One Google search later and it's something to the effect of “keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business."

And I'm still not sure precisely what that really means.

And ( Read more... )

I just wrote what's probably one of my favorite paragraphs in the history of my writing for one of my fiction class assignments.

"Everyone in Southie knew Shannon Flaherty. She was the fourth of seven kids, though only five had survived to adulthood. She was in her late twenties, and the mothers called her a spinster behind her back, since she lived ( Read more... )

Our new writing assignment is to write a scene where someone is killed with something you can find in your medicine cabinet. I picked floss. It's turning into a very dark comedy.

Pet Shop Boys - Home And Dry by andie_ba

This is quickly becoming my favorite Pet Shop Boys song. I'm not quite sure what it is about the composition, but it just works. Maybe because it manages to capture a really complex emotion.

I also had two characters of my characters basically tell me that this is their theme song. Insistently.

And sadly I' ( Read more... )

So I think I've mentioned again that I finally started writing again after several months of nothing (meaning that once again my sleep schedule has been shot to Hell since my best ideas come at 1 in the morning), and appropriately enough I spent part of yesterday writing a scene I'd been bouncing around my head for a while involving a guy telling a ( Read more... )

When I went to Dennis Lehane's talk last week he mentioned that he finds that he can only write really early in the morning, and that whenever he tries to do it during the day (or as he put it, 12-5) the results suck. He thinks it's that you still have to be in a semi-dream state for the creativity to work, and he doesn't know anyone who can write ( Read more... )

The problem with taking a 100 level course when I'm credit wise almost a senior is that I sometimes have to do stuff I already know because the assumption is I haven't learned it. Like write an outline for a paper and find sources, even though I could probably MLA cite something in my sleep, and in terms of academic papers and how I write them I ( Read more... )

The good news? I'll probably hit my 50k for NaNoWriMo later today.

The bad news? I'm still not done with this story!!!Ahhhhhhhhh ( Read more... )