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Numbers and things
I realized that this blog has very little continuity, and that it makes no real chronological sense. So, a bit of a transition, with numbers, no less:- The semester's over, and has been for a little while. Which is very nice, since I have all As in my easy but time-consuming classes, and can now focus my attention on reading and knitting and things.
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Last day of classes!
Today is the last day of classes for this semester! I still have a few things to do--essay for an exam, a response paper for Poetry Workshop, a revision of my Modern Poetry paper, and organizing and turning in my Scholars journal--but altogether, I'm doing pretty well on keeping on top of things, even if I did spend the weekend procrastinating, ( Read more... ) -
Where is Brittney going this weekend?
Bowling Green, Kentucky! For the Robert Penn Warren Conference ( Read more... ) -
Good Monday
So a few days ago I learned that I had won some sort of award at the Sigma Tau Delta convention.
Today I discovered that it was the convention prize for poetry. And that it carries with it a $500 check. Which I now have.
Add that to the Robert G. Cowser Award for Poetry, and you get $650 that I have made for writing poetry this semester.Pleased -
St. Louis, just before midnight
Last night in St. Louis. I should be working on my Modern Poetry essay, but I'm just not feeling that at the moment. I tried working on it this morning, writing about "What the Thunder Said," but that was crap, so I scrapped the whole thing and have a decent introductory paragraph about "A Game of Chess." Both from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, ( Read more... ) -
St. Louis = drunk people everywhere
Spring break! Right now I'm in St. Louis, MO, for the Sigma Tau Delta conference, where I'm presenting a collection of original ekphrastic poetry on Saturday, and, until then, bitching about how much I dislike large cities that are not New York. Because cities that are not New York mean I have to drive in six lanes of traffic full of unpleasantly ( Read more... ) -
Twitter terror
After holding out for so long and saying so many negative things about what it's doing to our culture's attention span, I have succumbed to temptation and gotten a Twitter ( Read more... )
