The actual important part of the previous post, at least for LJ, is that I will be in Chicago from May 22-25 (or sometime in that span) and would definitely love to hang out with folks. Will post more info later, but, you know, save the date or something?

Hi all! I am in desperate need of a programmer. My thesis involves a video game, and while I've designed and tested it on paper, I need someone to build it for me, since I have no programming skills. It would be very easy--no new graphics or AI or anything so complicated, just a bunch of prompts and responses and then a dynamic spreadsheet. The ( Read more... )

I decided to take today off because I've been running around like the proverbial chicken, and when I was in the shower (at noon, holla) I for some reason decided to make my grandmother's biscuit recipe, which had always intimidated me because there's such an air of mystery surrounding biscuits. (Uh, among people I know.) Turns out it's pretty ( Read more... )

Here's the sermon about Hallelujah that I mentioned in my comment to the previous post ( Read more... )

I am attending the wedding next month of one of Rachel's best and oldest friends; she is in the bridal party. I was asked to play the "special song" for that particular portion of the ceremony ( Read more... )

As previously mentioned, I'm taking a class with George Saunders this semester. I thought it was going to be a more theoretical English-type class, but turns out it's a full-on creative writing class ( Read more... )

I will be coming down to the city this weekend and will be having a SOMEWHAT BELATED birthday celebration on Saturday. Haven't picked a place yet (since, uh, I don't live there anymore), but any suggestions are welcome. Save the date!

Lynda Barry, in The Comics Reporter"When I teach, my students don’t write for longer than eight minutes at a time. There is a lot of preparation before that eight minutes, but the actual writing of the piece only lasts for eight minutes and all I ask my students to do is keep their pen moving in one way or another for the whole eight minutes, ( Read more... )

Joyce Carol Oates says of Keith Gessen:

Equally preoccupied with his work, and his inability to complete it, is the Russian studies graduate student Mark, who finds himself in exile in Syracuse, New York, where he is trying to finish his Ph.D. dissertation on the ill-fated Russian revolutionaries the Mensheviks; now divorced after Sasha left him, ( Read more... )

So yeah, I'm on tumblr now.