If you're wondering why I haven't been posting much lately, it's because I've been working with students. What kind of students? Consider:

Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust--
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

If the above sounds ( Read more... )

Yup. September. Ba-di-ya, say do you remember time. How the hell did that happen? Only yesterday it was July, and I was wrapping up a couple of drafts and going to the gym every day and frying whole chickens. Now it's suddenly cold at night and I'm waiting to hear back from a publisher and oh yeah, WORK.

The busy-ness has been a little overwhelming ( Read more... )

Gacked from ( Read more... )

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So I'm going on hiatus here for a couple of months.

Yes, I know, I've been posting so infrequently in here lately that it probably seems as though the hiatus began a good while back, but the upshot is that I'm going to be heading out of town for a couple of months.

And no, it has nothing to do with my homelife. spuffyduds  and I are still rock-solid, but ( Read more... )

It's a meme! (gacked from likeadeuce )

1. Make a list of 5 things that are in reach.
Norton Anthology of American Literature 1865-present; Tim Gallagher's Falcon Fever; laptop case; white UNC baseball cap; 20 oz. bottle of Nestea Red Tea.

2. What is your favorite holiday?
Christmas. Not as much as it used to be, but I have hopes that eventually it will become ( Read more... )

Let's just say that if I were a postal worker, my gruntling would be well below the minimum safety level just now.

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There are days when I wonder if my masculine bona fides are really in order. Sure, I like football, scratching, and sex as much as the next guy, but my fondness for poetry, progressive rock, and theater leaves me open to criticism from conventional American males as, well, not conventional enough. Usually I don't worry about such criticism, and on ( Read more... )

1) As you may have guessed, the work, she is kicking my arse lately. Due to circumstances that don't need exploring at this juncture, I am on duty more often this winter than usual. Typically I'm on every six days in the fall and every eight days in the winter and spring. Last year it was every six days all year long--not fun, but manageable. This ( Read more... )

Well. I've been busy ( Read more... )

I'm alive. I'm just been eaten by work.

As soon as I get the chance to build a fire and make it sneeze, I'll be out.  Call it mid-November.