No Dells this year. In spite of best intentions I'm not producing.

I don't know where the writing in my life went.

Shame. Think I would've taken first place. Grar.

It's been forever since I posted, because my computer died.

Last year of school was awesome! Unlike my freshman year, I kept a regular sleep cycle, so I was not depressed and angsty the whole time. I loved it. (Chicago is the best school ever.)  I have been elected president of my residence house, which will allow me to further propagate my majesty.

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 Dell Awards results just came in. I took first runner-up, i.e. second place (!) with a story called 'Hypocrite' (which was, if I do say so myself, really badass.) This is a major (three place!) step up from my honorable mention last year ( Read more... )

I stumbled on a wonderful blog, associated (from what I can tell) with the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. It's called 'Overcoming Bias', and it says a few things that I have been trying to articulate for a while, but does it much better.

This is a quote I found on the blog from the Washington Post. Food for thought!

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My fourth submission - a rewritten version of the Dell Award honorable mention from last year, 'Claymore Three-Zulu' - earned me a personalized rejection from Asimov's. I haven't seen it myself, but I'm told the rejection included a note saying that they liked my work and they wanted me to send more ( Read more... )

Since you missed the chance to actually experience anything like this -

Whoa.

Oh, the things I miss.

Tangos down.

(And why the heck is your finger on the trigger, punk?  What kind of corner watch is that?)

Yeah, yeah, all right, back to work.

On a related note, some pretty amazing writing-related stuff has occurred.  I'll fill all y'all in later, ( Read more... )

I almost didn't post this, because I hate such things. But given the intensity of my courseload right now, any chance to vent is welcome. So - I apologize. Perhaps this will serve to explain some things to people (like my aversion to music videos, for one ( Read more... )

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For those of you who are in college, visit:

www.lost.eu/4df3

Why? Because it's an interesting concept, and when we're finished we'll have a social map with something like 7 million people.

I'm not partisan, but I've got to say tonight's events regarding the election are probably a step in the right direction. Sorry, Republicans: even I, the consummate devil's advocate, can't seem to summon up the will to defend the foreign-policy situation any longer ( Read more... )