Sorry for the looooong absence, guys, and equally sorry to say I'm not fully back yet. Grad school is over, but I'm working 12-hour days at my job and don't see any kind of relief in sight. No time for writing any time in the near future ( Read more... )

Hi guys, sorry for the long silence! Several updates in answer to questions people have been emailing me ( Read more... )

Sorry for being incommunicado so long! I just started graduate school, got a bit overly ambitious about how many courses I could handle ("Recommended courseload? Psht. That's for sissies!") and Dell is being annoying about sending me the laptop I ordered, so it's been hard to find time that is both free and in front of a computer. Also, all my ( Read more... )

Some of you know this already, but part of the reason my productivity has been so low the last year is that I've been busting my butt trying to get into an MFA program. So, this August, I'm going to be heading west to the mighty state of Colorado to study creative writing. Until then, there's going to be a lot of freaking out and "OMG, where am I ( Read more... )

As long as I can remember, I've kept a running file of certain things I see in people's houses that I want in my own someday, if I'm ever wealthy enough to build/renovate a house of my own: secret ladders and passageways, tiny bedrooms under the stairs, hammock chairs and actual hammocks.

This is so going on the list.

I realize this is ridiculously oversensitive of me, but I'm having the mother of all bad weeks, so oversensitive is about the only dial setting right now. Can we not use the term "mouthbreather"? Please? The fact that I was born with a nose too small to be of much practical use really has no bearing on my intelligence, and I hate walking around ( Read more... )

My finger looks like something out a zombie movie this morning ( Read more... )

Man, there are days when I love being a Jew. Tonight, we are commanded to stay up all night studying, celebrating, and eating cheesecake. My bro and I are heading over to the JCC in a couple hours; it should be lots of fun and a much-needed break ( Read more... )

So unbelievably tired. Last night's neighbors (I so hate having new neighbors every night! Fucking hell.) kept their hyper kids up until 2 AM while they rearranged all the furniture, dragging heavy things over the floors while their kids shrieked. Next week I'm just coming home at night to pack, then back every night to sleep at work. I hate ( Read more... )

Sad news for my family; my great uncle died Sunday night after a long and painful decline and today is the funeral. I only met him in person once, when I was eight, but the impact he had on my mother's life, especially in these last years, was immense. My best memory of him was the summer I decided I was going to sky-dive, no matter what my ( Read more... )