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Walk Out
So, today is the Walk Out. As I was getting my bagel this morning, a people next to me (who were presumably participating) cheerfully said that University of Arizona and some other state universities would be "walking out" in solidarity. As I walked into campus through Kroeber, there were four people holding signs, sipping coffee. I also had a ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes I'd Rather Not Be Improved
Yesterday, my mom, my sister, and I went to the mall. My mom offered me two hundred dollars for a new wardrobe.
“Hey,” I said, “I don’t dress that badly.” Actually, I thought I was looking pretty good. I was wearing one of my favorite girly outfits: a white hoodie with pink and purple stars and light blue jeans.
“Well, I hardly ever see you and ( Read more... ) -
A Manifesto on Tutoring and the Writing Experience
Is there anything else you feel that we should know that was not covered in the interview?
Yesterday, I bombed several questions on my interview for a tutoring job, including the one featured above. I hate questions like these, because they translate roughly to "Hey, last chance to brag shamelessly about your qualifications!" And well, I said, "no ( Read more... ) -
Don't Play With Your Food
There has been a recent supernatural phenomenon and he is hot! Sometimes sweet, strong, or tortured. Sometimes blond, blue-eyed, with a face of an angel or raven-haired and angsty. He's always impeccably dressed with lots of money and fab abs. He knows how to show a lady a good time and he also subsists on a diet of human blood. What is he? The new ( Read more... ) -
Chick Lit. Jr. Mean Girls' Style
When I was growing up, I was a nerdy scrawny kid with glasses. I read a lot of science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction: Harry Potter, Garth Nix, Animorphs, Diana Wynne Jones, Eloise McGraw, a lot of books with princesses, aliens, petticoats, etc. When I was finished with the two shelves of books in the children's section, I went upstairs ( Read more... ) -
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Isn't it a lucky week for courtesans? Maybe I have a thing for them or something.
Guy falls in love with neighbor who is a teenage call girl, 19 years old. Not only is she a reformed hick, she's also stupidly naive. Basically, she's been carrying messages from this mob boss who's in jail to his lawyer. She gets caught, but refuses to stand ( Read more... ) -
La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexander Dumas Fils
it's about this guy who knows this courtesan and at her death, there is an auction and he buys a book. a little later a guy hunts him down and asks to buy the book. the guy turns out to be courtesan's lover and he's distraught over her death. the asshole had basically fallen in love with her and her with him and then went along their happy ( Read more... ) -
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
As I was drifting off to sleep last night, I finally thought of a way to respond to this fairly thick fantasy novel.
It's something from Shakespeare in which Sir Benedict describes fair Hero after being prodded for his opinion by the lovesick Claudio.
Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too ( Read more... ) -
Martian Timeslip by Philip K. Dick
I've wanted to do a blog for awhile. I've tried a few times: xanga, myspace, personal journal, but it's never worked out. I've never managed to be interesting enough to keep myself amused by writing these things.
I got a journal awhile back. It's currently in the top drawer of my room some several hundred miles away. I used it to write ( Read more... )