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Draft!
Well, several hours of sleeplessness and many cups of tea later, I have a draft of one story for the Oikos Project. I already had to turn it in and it will be critiqued Thursday. I'm so scared that it'll get torn to pieces and I know there's so much that's rough, and I'm not entirely sure anything really happens that I wanted to happen.
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Proof of life
Back in the States. As feared (expected), I did not keep up with the Europe blog. Oh well.
I'm having a hard time with reverse culture shock. Re-acclimating to a rigorous academic schedule, a campus culture which keeps pushing everyone to work at full capacity all the time (for what?), bad food, bad fashion is much more of a challenge than going ( Read more... ) -
Vienna: Now with working link and photos!
1. I have been writing. I have been writing crazy random insanity. I'm liking it.
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from http://internauta2010.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/please-look-at-this-tomorrow-when-ive-uploaded-photos/
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From http://internauta2010.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/31/
Happy New Year from Vienna! I rang in 2010 dancing the Viennese waltz with a Malaysian nanny with an eyebrow piercing in the city’s street party while simultaneously trying to watch/avoid being hit by low-flying ( Read more... ) -
My family is eating sushi for dessert. I will miss this.
My flight leaves on Monday morning.
Obsessively checking and rechecking the Turbulence Forecast: happening. Laundry: happening. Watching “Dexter” on Netflix and reading about racefail in “Doctor Who”: definitely happening. Eating my way through the Bay Area: happening (Cheeseboard Pizza, why can you not be everywhere on the planet). Packing: ( Read more... ) -
Getting geared up for a few weeks of writing
My straight man is more or less a non-entity right now. In this world I'm creating with weird, self-obsessed characters, he's supposed to be the one you identify with. Unfortunately he's so much of a surrogate-type character that he's really just kind of there. That's no good. My favorite straight men characters are just as well-developed and ( Read more... ) -
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Thankful for: family, friends, being able to go home for Thanksgiving, Obama + Copenhagen, lots and lots more. If you celebrate it, happy Thanksgiving, and if not, happy Thursday. :) -
Oh right, this is a blog about writing and reading
Most of my recent posts have derailed into IRL blather, which, while fascinating (to me), is not the point of this journal. So, since I'm embroiled in finals week and have no particular thoughts on literature, I give you someone who did: Henry James!
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Stateside
from http://internauta2010.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/stateside/
Well, it’s official. The first half of my 2010 is going to look something like this:
San Francisco → Zurich airport → Vienna for New Year’s → Florence for three months → Zurich airport → Midwest for spring term.
This winter I’ll be in Florence, Italy, studying the Italian language and ( Read more... ) -
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It is the last (also maybe the third) blue October sky of the year and I'm stuck inside. Stupid H1N1. I had a fever for less than 24 hours, but I'm still lightheaded and dizzy ( Read more... )