This will sound ridiculous to people who don't watch LOST and/or think TV is a waste of time, but now that the series has wrapped up, I truly feel like a great friend has moved away. I didn't start watching the show until a couple of years in, just like I didn't start reading the Harry Potter series until the first movie came out. There are other ( Read more... )

& I passed my graduate thesis defense!!!

I haven't written in this thing since... a long time. But I wanted to record for posterity's sake that: JOHN AND JODIE ARE GETTING MARRIED AT 4 O'CLOCK TOMORROW ( Read more... )

Resolutions for 2010 ( Read more... )

I submitted my application to Vanderbilt.

Prayers, por favor.

I've been thinking about what to do after I get my MA from UTC, and last night while I was looking around online to see what PhD programs are offered in the area, I came across Vanderbilt's MFA program-- if you're accepted, they pay for everything and give you a stipend ( Read more... )

The House passed the healthcare bill.
President Obama doesn't have a clue what he's doing, does he?
Sad day.

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize: for WHAT?!

Novel status as of 10/3: roughly 21,000 words. This sounds great, but they're 21,000 words that aren't really connected. Just floating around in empty novel space, waiting for an appropriate nest. My problem is fitting scenes together, weaving them so that they flow. Makes sense since I've never been good with transitions. Seriously. I can write ( Read more... )

Tonight we're (Jeremy, his parents, me) leaving for Lake Placid, NY, and Montreal, Canada. We'll be gone from tonight until next Sunday night. That's a longer vacation than I've had in a while, and it's the farthest north I'll have ever traveled that I remember (my parents traveled when I was a toddler, but of course I have no recollection of this ( Read more... )