"You think deeply into things." I can't remember the last time someone told me that sentence without inserting "too" before "deeply." Now I'm not sure if the fact that I'm still thinking about that sentence is good or not. The "too" would have let me know that thinking more about it would have been bad, but without it, I can't say. The absence ( Read more... )

This is probably more for me than those who read, but if you don't hear from me much over the next week, this is why ( Read more... )

There is no surprise in scientific publications. Right off the bat, we tell the reader the punchline. By the end of the first paragraph, they know how the story ends. Oftentimes even in the title. I like this.

So this is how it works now, eh? I update with each new semester, and never in between? Not only that, but this time I'm doing it late ( Read more... )

I hopped online yesterday to see in which rooms my classes would be today (the first day of school) to find out most of my classes had been dropped ( Read more... )

Summer ( Read more... )

This is the second draft of a story I'm turning in on Wednesday morning. I've incorporated a few suggestions from others and a couple of small changes of my own. Feel free to look over it and let me know what you think. I'll edit this Wednesday afternoon to represent the version I end up turning in.

( Second Draft )

I turn it in tomorrow. This is just a draft. I'm beat right now so I'll have more changes to make tomorrow. Feel free to suggest a title or any changes.

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What a relaxing recess this break was. I was able to spend plenty of time with my family. Went to Bogalusa a couple times, Baton Rouge once. Christmas, altogether, was spectacular... however, not so much more spectacular than other Christmases that it stands out from the rest. My most used gifts from the lot so far have been a fist-full of ( Read more... )

I've been surprisingly nonproductive this first week of my winter break, but that's what it's about, right? Taking a break?

( That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet )