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One of the things I miss most about university is having someone to read over my papers and correct my grammar mistakes. My professors - especially Dr. Junkerman and Dr. Movassat - were fastidious in their editing, and my writing improved enormously under their tutelage. Dr. Junkerman was great at recognizing patterns, and opened my eyes to ( Read more... )

...and fail it did, make no mistake about that.
Yes, I did reduce the backlog, but not at all by the volume that I had hoped for.

There were three key reasons for this:
- School: I wouldn't stay that I studied a lot this quarter, but even the minimal amount of time I spent with books cracked open adds up, and it's minutes and hours that I'm not ( Read more... )

“What is this backlog you're always whining about in your New Years resolutions ( Read more... )

In an attempt to transform myself into a professional writer - my husband did it, so why can’t I? - I applied to two contributor positions at two book-related blogs.  I don’t know if it’ll go anywhere; I sent them some writing samples from fashion_piranha and wrote a nice cover letter.   Picking what to send them was hard, though - they don’t want ( Read more... )

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

-- C. S. Lewis

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

-- Cyril Connolly
If all goes according to plan, the fall semester at SJSU will be my last one at university...until I get suckered into going to grad school in a year or two.  But once I wrap up that last final in December, I'll be free (for the ( Read more... )

So one of my projects that I'm probably going to work on over the summer (because life is too crazy busy right now) is going through my old journal entries (I've been using this thing for over ten years, CRAZY!!!) and cleaning them up.  I'm not going to edit the content, but if there are broken images or links, I'll fix them up as best I can.  In ( Read more... )

So I am listening to an audio version of the book The Duchess by Amanda Foreman (which was originally published under the title Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire) and it’s been a bit dry, but interesting. Not knowing anything about Georgiana before the book, and being generally unfamiliar with England in the reign of George III, it’s been very ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just hate writing about art because I don't quite know what to say.

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