Sister will leave tomorrow after I've gone to class. Sadness ( Read more... )

I won't do a full post now, because once in a very great while a poet grabs me by the throat and everything that comes out immediately after is typically mawkish drivel. But I've decided that I love Dylan Thomas ... and that I'm disappointed with myself for having avoided writing villanelles because they appeared too difficult.

Sister is leaving tomorrow. Mom should be here in a few hours to help sister drive to Hollywood. I'm sad. I'm in denial. I'm trying to be excited for all the opportunity involved in this move and not focus on how scary the neighborhood around Hollywood and Vine is.

As a side effect, Sister is taking her computer, which is the one in the house with ( Read more... )

So, since the last time I counted, I've added 2,835 words to my world design document, bringing it to 33% done. That percentage is based upon a rough word count estimate I'd made at the beginning of writing. However, the number of categories with substantial entries: 11. Total number of categories required for document: 72. So, that doesn't really ( Read more... )

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Went to The Hangover with my little sister and her boy friend. She's moving to Hollywood on Monday to attend a performing arts school for a degree in film acting. Hence, for the love of my flesh and blood kin, I hung on through immensely gratuitous stupidity. It had some caper elements that were actually pretty well thought out ... I just don't ( Read more... )

Two hours ago I set out to discover the average area of the human eye ball that is exposed to light/oxygen. I've since read well over 15 Wikipedia articles related to the topic I'm actually writing into my world design/magic system. And I still haven't discovered the measurements I was looking for. The moral of the story is "You don't know what you ( Read more... )

... because when you're a literature scholar (aspiring or established) you care about such nonsense (but consistently practice forgetting it):

Usage Note: Denote and connote are often confused because both words have senses that entail signification. Denote means "to signify directly or literally" and describes the relation between the word and the ( Read more... )

I promised on Monday (ish ... the problem with being a bohemian-working-student type is that the standard division between days gets muddled) that you'd have my thoughts on James Joyce's The Dead from Dubliners on Tuesday. I failed to produce such a blog yesterday. Accept my apologies and suggest suitable punishments in the comments, if you please ( Read more... )

Today I survived three works by Virginia Woolf. Saturday morning I read quite a bit of TS Eliot. While the two seem nearly as opposite as I can imagine two authors who were contemporaneously publishing in the same country to be, I found that I couldn't agree with either of their works on what fiction should be like ... because in radically ( Read more... )