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Though many have already heard, I shall tell the story of my recent victory. I went to a storytelling competition last week called Plotluck. Folks put their names in a hat and ten people are picked to tell stories while everyone else in groups decides their scores. It's not meant to be taken seriously; the woman providing prizes has said that ( Read more... ) -
Snow Yay!
So a lot was supposed to happen Friday, but it snowed instead. I was going to meet with my major professor, but they closed the university. Town & Gown's production of Mame was cancelled for opening night, and I was supposed to go to a Valentine's bad movie night shindig, but I don't drive under snowy conditions at night. So suddenly we were all ( Read more... ) -
random stuff
February is my least favorite month, so I'm pleased that it's moving along so quickly but fearful that March will do the same, and then where will I be when I still haven't written my thesis or landed a job. Teacher contracts usually go out around this time, so I should probably take a week to start putting out more resumes. But I'm also forcing ( Read more... ) -
so this is the blah I've been missing out on by not having a job
I managed to get in my job application last minute on Friday, read the rest of The Curiosity Shop over the weekend and led discussion today on Memory's function in the narrative. I even started writing out some basic points for my thesis intro, went running, and caught up with my sole remaining friend from high school. So why does such an uber- ( Read more... ) -
I feel thesis forming
No doubt someone is already doing a study of this, but do you suppose that our search enging culture is having an effect on our use of prepositions. Are we dropping non-search worthy words from our sentences here and there or learning to go without in order to fit our ideas into a tweet? And as Adam Z countered, are we enforcing simpler ( Read more... ) -
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So thesis progress has been derailed this week by the search for a job. There's a position for teaching freshman comp at a two year college nearby, and the deadline is Friday. I have little chance with just a master's (there's quite a few unemployed PH.d. candidates with more credentials and more debt) but it gives me an excuse to put together my ( Read more... ) -
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Though I continually check in on you all to get the skinny, it's been almost a year since I posted. Not much has changed. I'm still in school; I'm still living with Cord; I'm still stressing about finding a job on the other side. And yet [pause for existential moment] I do believe just about everything has changed. That's not sad, that just is ( Read more... ) -
even nerds should get out once in a while
Last Friday I went to the Fox with dramawench to see the Alvin Ailey dance company. I saw them almost ten years ago when they came through Athens and I only had to pay $5 as a student (man, why don't they have cool things coming through the university now?). They happened to be celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and even though they have ( Read more... ) -
3rd roommate
So last night I kind of had it out with the third roommate. I wasn't even itching for a fight. I've asked her to do her dishes, turn on the fan after she showers. Those kinds of things, but there are millions of things I don't tell her because she's kind of sensitive. And the last time I was going to bring something up she talked to me about ( Read more... ) -
Classes have begun
Because Obama is now in office i'm going to try to be more positive this semester. Watch out for exclamation points and sunny phrases like "yippee" and "you betcha ( Read more... )