On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

I've been having back problems since my car accident in February. It's not like I'm in constant pain, but every so often, my back just spazzes out and hurts like hell and today is one of those days. I've got a shooting pain to the middle of my back, but I can't tell if it's shooting from my shoulders or from my lower back, just that it hurts like ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving world ( Read more... )

Dotty Aro makes bad movies better.

The past couple of weeks have been stressful. Well, no, let me rephrase. The entire semester has been stressful; the past couple of weeks have made that stress feel exceptionally heavier. Right before my birthday, I had a manual due for my Advanced Tech. Comm. class, and the night before it was due, the file ( Read more... )

So I am now 26 and I have an amusing story to tell ( Read more... )

If anyone has ten seconds to read, could you give me some feedback on this? It's the introduction to my Adv. Tech. Comm. Manual on writing sonnets, villanelles, and sestinas. I need to know if it communicates why the reader should care, if it would convince anyone to read further (heh, like anyone reads the introductions anyway), etc. It's a rough ( Read more... )

( Cut because I feel the need to be emo tonight for no apparent reason. )

I would like to state, categorically and for the record, that I do not enjoy editing. I've been told by those who are farther along in the program than I am that disliking editing translates to liking style and design. This, I suppose, is a good thing.

But right now...I am so stressed about editing class that it's not even funny. Sigh.

This morning's was a doozy ( Read more... )