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Here is something concrete that has changed in the last ten years ( Read more... ) -
My Heart on Cassette
Cross-posted from my knitting blog, which you really should be reading, an entry that is not at all about knitting, and really belongs on livejournal but I wanted to make it available to a wider audience:
Over Labor Day weekend, my car's 1997 cassette-only stereo got fried, and I was forced, forced I tell you, to replace it with a spiffy new CD and ( Read more... ) -
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I decided, almost against my better judgment, to re-up my paid account today when I got the notice that it was going to expire. So I figured I ought to write something here, and here it is ( Read more... ) -
rewritten poem 4
Right, so I'm definitely not trying at napowrimo. But here's another rewritten poem ( Read more... ) -
rewritten poems 2 & 3
Guys, I thought that last poem was pretty good -- but you have somehow failed to shower me with praise. These two I like less, but maybe you will like them more. I wrote them this morning in the library, killing time before class. I deliberately set out to find some poets I don't have in my own collection, and I ended up using two poems from The ( Read more... ) -
rewritten poem 1
Yes, well, I seem to have dropped the ball in my whole "I will update more often" initiative. I just don't seem to have the need to share the minutia of my life with the internet anymore. But we shall soldier on, and sometimes I will tell you some things, and sometimes they will be amusing ( Read more... ) -
yellow is the color of my true love's crossbow
Livejournal, I have been holding out on you. I have started a knitting blog, and I have not told you about it because, frankly, I'm a little embarrassed to have a knitting blog at all, and I didn't know if any of you would care. But there you go. I claim in the "about" section of the blog that I will be writing entries about my life in addition to ( Read more... ) -
the power of synonyms
I just received a piece of spam with the subject line "make your hose's radius great." Am I getting email ads for sprinkler heads now?, I wondered, thinking of garden hoses and a sprinkler's radius, which would be a sensible use of that term. Then suddenly I realized it was about penises. As a teacher of writing and a scholar of literature, I find ( Read more... ) -
it's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away
When I was a kid, I was really into the occult-- I read every book about ghosts, ESP, witchcraft, etc that I could get my hands on. At some point in about sixth grade, I developed the ritual of reading my horoscope in the paper every afternoon while eating my milk and cookies. It was that terrible part of life when your hormones have awakened and ( Read more... ) -
all i want is all you got
If I have been absent, O Livejournal, it is not because my resolve to write here has weakened. It is because I am currently buried under a mountain of work, scrambling to meet a January 15th deadline ( Read more... )