I lack the energy to make this exciting and well-written, but this is the story: within the last week or two, I made a huge blunder - several, really, maybe 6-8, just not all the same size - in one article for the beat I'm covering. The group it concerned got mad. Reeeally mad. Mad enough that some were talking about conducting a re-vote just so ( Read more... )

1. My somewhat-jaded women's lit class really got into a discussion of The Handmaid's Tale, and one girl said something that made the air in the room stand on end. Something about how it's true that, as Americans, we might be ignorant of and hardly capable of understanding the oppression and victimization of women going on right now in other ( Read more... )

This weekend I finished the second of my two assignments for the wedding mag. It publishes once a year, so while it pays better than the student newspaper and I can use more of 'my style'... it's - once a year. But anyway ( Read more... )

Today was too, too much stress, over a bunch of words that weren't inspired by God or anything, just my own reputation and wanting to cover my butt, things like that, just making it through. I wrote an article in a computer program I'd never used before, sent it to my section editor, and reviewed it with one of them, preparing it to greet the world ( Read more... )

I couldn't help myself. I skimmed through The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (which I have to read for class) just now, and I can already tell that it is a Giver dressed in 'feminist' clothing. It's already uncomfortably making me think, and I only understood the barest bones of what was going on.

I have to read Dave Eggers' What is the What as ( Read more... )

"God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, / And learn by going where I have to go." --Theodore Roethke

"It is the lumps and trials / That tell us whether we shall be known / And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star." --John Ashbery

Beautiful, isn't it?


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From my newspaper this morning:

"Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish"

"It's young people, women especially, deciding that the way to measure their readiness for the adult ( Read more... )

And all I want to do is track various people down and pounce on them, but, it's almost 9 and I have an 8:30 class tomorrow morn. WHOOPEE!

Still, it's nice. Fresh sheets, our floor that desperately needs cleaning. The school literary magazine rejected my poem, but I love it (the magazine) anyway. K's wild-child roommate who kept booze in their room ( Read more... )

THERE'S a certain slant of light,


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I'm not always the biggest fan of PostSecret, but these two from today warmed my heart. Or interested me, or something.


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