Sister is leaving tomorrow. Mom should be here in a few hours to help sister drive to Hollywood. I'm sad. I'm in denial. I'm trying to be excited for all the opportunity involved in this move and not focus on how scary the neighborhood around Hollywood and Vine is.

As a side effect, Sister is taking her computer, which is the one in the house with ( Read more... )

I promised on Monday (ish ... the problem with being a bohemian-working-student type is that the standard division between days gets muddled) that you'd have my thoughts on James Joyce's The Dead from Dubliners on Tuesday. I failed to produce such a blog yesterday. Accept my apologies and suggest suitable punishments in the comments, if you please ( Read more... )

A few hours ago I finished reading The Strange Cae of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Those of you who read my blogs often know of my general distaste for Victorian prose. Hark ye! Stevenson is SO MUCH BETTER than other Victorian prose. Not just that, he's more than able to compete for a spot among my favorite authors.

( Specific comments on Stevenson as well as Jekyll and Hyde contain some spoilers ... )

... especially when it eats an hour's worth of research and then helpfully restores two totally blank documents. Just saying.

... or some such.

I'll be absent from the internet for Memorial Day weekend, beginning in about five minutes. On the upside,
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Specifically, I'd like to know: Can I follow someone's blog on Blogger from my LJ account? I get syndicated feeds from well known cool people, like Neil Gaiman. But I want my LJ friends page to tell me when the amazing people nobody but me know about blog. Can I do that? And if so, how? Can I use an application like Live Bookmarks and link it to my ( Read more... )

So, I have internet in my house again. Yay!

I got my training document back scored from my program manager at Butler Hill, and I got an overall score of 83.7%. I’m not happy with that, but it’s decent enough for the first go, especially since I’ve been able to look at it and learn from my specific mistakes because their system of critiquing is very ( Read more... )

 
So, yesterday, I responded to a question
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