When I saw my 103 year old great-Grandmother in North Carolina this past week I was moved and amused by something she said in her particularly witty way: "103 is too old ( Read more... )

No, not really ( Read more... )

I thought I would put it here as Im actually not ashamed of it, even though that usually happens with any creative project I see for the first time in years. I was thinking maybe I would print it out and bring it to my screenwriting class, but I am not sure, as it has nothing to do with my contemporary project. Basically its about the warlord era ( Read more... )

Some random (seriously random, not people I could tell specifically who they where) friends and I formed a heavily armed SWAT team with the mission of rescuing the damned souls in hell. Despite all our AK-47's and body armor we had no means of transportation, wither vehicular or multidimensional. Than the school bus showed up. This crazy witch ( Read more... )

Recently a friend of mine remarked that its very hard to construct a low-fantasy type fictional world for yourself without over-relying on historical parallels. For example one nation might be obviously western European and another might be obviously Greek. This got me thinking to see if I could make a fantasy world where politically and culturally ( Read more... )

Haha when I was little I was so into these books. I just saw the Mattimeo tv adaptation (it excised alot of the violence in the books but was fun) and it reminded me who my first favorite villain ever used to be. Hes still a badass, in that kid-friendly villain type of way, but ever since then Ive always been drawn to fictional villains so go ( Read more... )

University of St Andrews seems to be liking my ideas, but University of Edinburgh, I swear. This is the second time they asked me to completely rewrite what I sent them. Its like they do not understand what a large scale case study is or how to examine things with theory as my case study rather than some boring specific country. They even were ( Read more... )

Things are quite strange. Im finally getting somewhere on the Phd proposal. I still am not the largest fan of being in a kind of mid-range funk however. To illustrate how I feel, I have recently become fascinated by the crazy-ass art of crazy ass fucker Louis Wain ( Read more... )

The job search is almost completely dried out, the gap period before a phd could start is too long to be of immediate consequence, but holy shit the threat of going home in September has suddenly and strangely awoken the intense desire to stay...to redouble the efforts at job and program hunting. In the vain hopes that this will pay off I have ( Read more... )

Even though I should be focused on my dissertation I have been really doing the shindig for the future. Job searching, phd program searching about to start, etc. My new plan is not to go straight into government like I once thought, but to get enough qualifications to work in a think tank and get into government by making a name for myself there, ( Read more... )