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A Reader is Me
So, right after finishing my grad school apps, I decided to try to push myself to start reading more again. I've been out of the habit of reading fiction and poetry for a long time, and I don't read nearly as much academic stuff as I should.
DW has a community called
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All Points Bulletin
The internet has been out here since Monday morning (it's Thursday morning as I post this), in case you haven't heard from me.
This entry was originally posted at http://katealaurel.dreamwidth.org/161860.html, and has
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Good Things (status report)
• All my classes this week have gone really well. (I still bitch-and-moan to some friends about management issues, because that's what you do, but really.) With the exception of Tuesday morning, which never goes well. Gonna work on fixing that.
• T-7 until
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Well, shoot.
Because I wrote that blog post in offline gmail on my own computer, and I´m currently on the actual internet on my host´s computer, of course I can´t access it. Well, dur. You´ll just have to wait for news ( Read more... ) -
Writing and such.
I'm trying to set it up to post over here automatically, but in the meantime, here's a link to some end-of-season gardening thoughts on the "real blog".
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Nothing to say here tonight except that
I just finished reading Swallow Me Whole about an hour ago, having picked it up from the library holdshelf this afternoon and started it while eating dinner.
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My copy of Stoppard's Arcadia has the most hilarious markup I've ever seen in a second-hand book. Somehow I missed it when purchasing it from Goodwill originally (there are some large blank sections), or probably wouldn't have acquired it; it does make the text difficult to read smoothly. However, it's well worth it for the hilarious incongruity ( Read more... ) -
Just so's you know
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On the status of this space
So I'm in the process of moving my habitual writing over to a new, public space. Not that new, actually; I've had the domain and the half-finished site since November, and am only now getting around to working on it again. I want to consolidate my writing-- I think I'll be less likely to write if I need to worry about posting both there and here ( Read more... ) -
Oh dear.
President Obama has drawn not-infrequent comparisons to the Spock character. Do you see any similarities there?I’ve met him twice. The first time was a couple years ago, very early on when he had just announced his candidacy. He was in Los Angeles, speaking at a luncheon we were invited to. There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the ( Read more... )