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Last time I traveled abroad: Montreal / Quebec City in summer 2016.

Last time I slept in a hotel: Fort Lauderdale in October, for my middle sister's wedding

Last time I flew in a plane: From Fort Lauderdale as well

Last time I took a train: A genuine long-distance train? I think it must have been the New York City -> Montreal train in spring 2013. (I ( Read more... )

We have one professor who requires, for who knows what cockamamie reason, that students use a print source ( Read more... )

I have been personally victimized by Tamsyn Muir but I'm okay with that.

( Spoilers for Gideon the Ninth )

I have recently finished the almost-final draft of The Death and Life of the Blackthorn City, my thesis novel that's about what happens when the left-wing Quebecois insurgencies of the late 60s and early 70s result in the growth of an impenetrable thorn-hedge around a section of Montreal -- and what happens several decades later, when the heiress ( Read more... )

Writing any relationship - it's often most visible in romance, but I think it's true of any relationship - is about the tension between what you can say and what you can't say ( Read more... )

I am alternating between being ( Read more... )

1) The thing I needed most to understand about Quebec nationalist / separatist / independentist movements is an analysis I found that separated these movements into three groups ( Read more... )

5 things you'll find in my bag:
1. (Paper) notebook, right now a small red Moleskine AND a thick purple Clairefontaine
2. Tablet for e-books
3. Passport
4. Pencil case
5. Two poems

5 things you'll find in my room:
1. Multiple extreme stacks of library books
2. Many skeins of yarn
3. An in-progress sweater
4. Perfume samples
5. Floordrobe

5 of my favorite ( Read more... )

MFA Sadness is the sadness that you feel when a classmate you genuinely like who genuinely wants to be a good guy writes a story that's kind of misogynistic and you don't want to tell him but you also kind of have to.

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