For B-town peoples ( Read more... )

For those who aren't local to B-town and Scadian, "Probie" is my nickname amongst the members of the Wednesday Company (an elite fencing unit I fight with). I'm "Probie" as in "Probationary" -- since I'm a petitioner of the company, not yet a full member ( Read more... )

In my Oregon days, I apprenticed with studious and accomplished drinkers, and spent many a Sunday morning with a hangover headache standing in the kitchen, slowly and methodically making pancakes, for they were my ritual hangover food. Food and tea and puttering around the house with a book, and by Sunday night I'd be game for dancing, because ( Read more... )

In at least a while. Especially if you lean towards the Democrat end of the spectrum, or away from the Bugfrack crazy Neo-Con & BushCo end ( Read more... )

The last two people on CMCL's first-round acceptees decided they wanted to attend, so I didn't make it up from the waitlist to the yes-list. They'll keep my application on file for a year, so I can just update my CV and have them re-submit for next year, which is a nice move on their part ( Read more... )

So, having heard back from every school that could take me elsewhere, I can now say with great confidence that I will be in Bloomington for the coming school year, since if I get in to IU, I'll be here, and if I don't, I'll still be here, just doing different things. Take that, negativity ( Read more... )

I convinced my parents to purchase my Nintendo Wii ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I made an *uh duh* realization. For the last couple of weeks, I'd been taking Benadryl for anti-histamine action and generic-brand decongestants as well. Supposedly, the decongestant would cancel out the drowsification of the antihistamine, but coincidentally, those two weeks also included all-time low productivity on my novel ( Read more... )

This is a reminder that I'm teaching Argentine Tango at the Windfall Dance Studio on Sundays at 12 noon to 1 pm. The class runs weekly through December 9th (save Nov 4, which is scheduled for something else). Tuition for the whole series is $75.

Come, dance, enjoy.

Windfall Dance Studio is located here:
1101 N. Dunn Street
(812) 334-0506

It doesn't matter if I've exercised the day before, or will exercise later in the day. I must remember that my muse is an endorphin junkie, and the easiest way to feed it so that I can hit my daily word count is by exercising in the morning before writing. It wakes me up, gets my brain firing, and carries me through the day ( Read more... )