My review for Schrödinger's Ball was in the Eagle on Monday. Your GUT reaction may be different than mine, but you'll never know until you observe the contents, which remain in every possible state between heaven and hell until you pin them down.

Yes. I know modern physics. I know modern physics so hard.

My moods make me look like I've got the ( Read more... )

Yeah. The fact that my last post was at noon on Friday should explain itself well enough, so I'm not going to talk directly about it. Instead, I'm going to mention other things.

For starters: I have a blood blister on my left middle finger. It's, yes, even worse looking than the pictures show it. Closed a window on it; nasty. Fortunately, my finger ( Read more... )

Another article in the Eagle. Go me!

Apparently, I have seventeen overdue bits of homework. That's not really so bad as all that, in terms of things: Three of them are Creative Writing assignments, times I only wrote three out of four short scenes; three of them are Emerson readings, who I hope to complete; nine of them are from the optional ( Read more... )

OK, that was weird enough to demand a post:

Listening to iTunes while working on a late blog post about Dune; "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM" by Simon and Garfunkel was playing. The Party Shuffle has been on a real S+G kick; I tend to listen to songs off of a playlist called "Been a while": the five hours of music that I haven't heard in the longest time ( Read more... )

Back on Wednsday, I went to the Trover Bookstore, a cozy place which wasn't nearly as nice as the Tiger of course (problem of multiplicity combined with problem of selection--ie, having ten copies of book X rather than one of book X and one of book X-1 where everyone who buys book X bought X-1 first), in order to cover the Fifth Annual Hill Book ( Read more... )

Today I am just a little bit awesome.

I'd known this was coming, given I'd sent it in and stuff, but there's a difference between that and having it in newsprint and taped to the door of your room. I'm not sure if that's the professional thing, the Thomas L. Friedman thing, to do, but it's what I did, so meh.

What would be more awesome would be ( Read more... )

The second D+D game was yesterday; I never got around to posting a writeup of the first one, but I'll eventually get around to it, I expect. As always, however, I've got a sizable stack of homeworks to get through, and while Emerson is starting to make sense, I may have aside too many to get back to now that it does. Plus some short stories for ( Read more... )

Today, in "Envisioning Future of World Politics", I felt like I was actually intelligent for the first time in about a week and a half. I think I'm on the mend. On the other hand, I wasted another half-hour reading more Narbonic archives. So, you know, two steps forwards. I get to talk about Firefly next week, which should improve things ( Read more... )

So, I heard back from the Eagle's columnist editor yesterday. Her response was... well, not encouraging, but positive, if that makes any sense (I think it does). She asked me for another review (apparently the two "sample" reviews I'd sent her for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters and The Big Over Easy were seen as proofs-of-concept rather than ( Read more... )

Well, I've finished a review of The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, and one of The Big Over Easy and have sent them to the Eagle. Four days late and a review short (they want three samples from columnists). We'll see how it goes; the second review took half as long, and I think it went far better.

Now: Swordpoint, an orphan I brought home from the ( Read more... )