Things are things. Plan on studying dog bones for my thesis. Can't resist dead things, I guess. Going to a conference to man a poster this weekend. Not doing enough hw. Eating chili. Making cookies. Remembering to call my sister on her birthday. Got paid, and all the money disappeared instantly into rent, bills, and credit card payments. Went ( Read more... )

The Cryptonomicon has a scene about hashish that my brain decided happened solely to share with readers the etymology of the word assassin. This let me to have a moment of geekiness. Now, the etymology of the word assassin happens to be my favorite etymology (not that I know many; I was just obsessed with assassins in high school), so when I got ( Read more... )

Before i begin: news! My story about Dan and Jarrod (the homosexual crush one) is going to be submitted to and optimally published in Inklings, because the submissions guy who was in my writing class wanted to look at it and is now submitting it for me. Neat. My experience with working for lit mags makes me wonder if they are low on submissions ( Read more... )

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