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Let you swim in the wake of this song
I chose my username about ten years ago. “Jobey” was an old nickname, adopted at the beginning of high school, partly as part of a pact with a close friend, and partly from a strange insecurity: I was the scholarship student from The Wrong Part of Town, and it was somehow easier to insist that all the intimidating new people I met call me by this ( Read more... ) -
Alabaster stones
realityanalyst, don't take this the wrong way, but this came on the radio today and I thought of you.
I think the connection is your similarly spare style and striking originality, and not the way you sing creepy songs to infants.
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What is reality
Real life and partial-lurker-status-explanation ( Read more... ) -
It's little things that are hard, like starting up the car...
How brutal was May? Here's how brutal: I'm pretty sure I read another book or two early on. But I'm damned if I can remember what they are, since that feels like a year ago.
17. American Girl: The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery (Sarah M. Buckey)Found this in the discard pile after I held a school book drive, and just had to take it home ( Read more... ) -
Lista de tareas
In an effort to practice writing in Spanish as often as possible ( Read more... ) -
George Martin died with book unfinished
Someone dropped this little practical joke on me today.
I went into a tizzy.
Calmed down when I realized she meant George R.R. Martin.
Was totally uninterested by the time I found out it was all a hoax anyway. -
Caveat lector
An anecdote only Harry Potter friends can appreciate ( Read more... ) -
Did we really count to one hundred?
I bought some books today for my school at our local bookshop. (I don't think I appreciate our local bookshop enough, but I already have too many books I haven't read yet, so I'm not eager to go buy more.) Problem is, I don't want to bring 'em to school yet--I want to read them myself first!
( Reminiscing about Voight, Yolen, and Coville ) -
I cannot think of an April-related lyric, nor do I care
I started a diet and gave up caffeine last week.
It's possible I shouldn't have done both at once.
Anyway, plastering a fake smile on my face, here's my (admittedly not bad! not bad at all! mostly because I had two transcontinental flights this month!) April list.
12. Airframe (Michael Crichton): This book is wicked engaging. There is an ( Read more... ) -
It's the rest of the stump, it's a little alone
I'll go backwards, since I have more to say the more I write.
11. Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson) This is a re-read, since I'm gearing up to teach it for the second time. It was a huge (unexpected) hit with my students last year, and I see why. It's emotionally intense, for sure. Once you are three pages in, the first-person narrator has already ( Read more... )