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FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE ( Read more... )

In my last literary editing class, my teacher mentioned how in our age of celebrity, it's not enough to complete the creative process, but you have to broadcast it. Undergraduate writers don't enjoy writing for what it is, but only write to get published. Honestly, I don't know if I would write as much if I knew other people weren't going to read ( Read more... )

Two interesting things that happened to me yesterday, in keeping with my "two" theme ( Read more... )

Since it's been almost a month since my last update and I have time between papers, I thought I would say a few things. My dead week and finals won't be as bad as I worried, and I should be pretty much done with the semester by next Tuesday or Wednesday. Thanksgiving was quiet but nice, and I got to see Michelle and Sheena. Michelle and her ( Read more... )

This being 22 thing isn't that much different from being 21, ecept it's made me panic more about what I'm supposed to do after I graduate: publishing? writing? copy editing? law school? Teach for America? getting knocked up by a construction worker and then marrying him and bitterly pondering what my life could have been while I make him scrambled ( Read more... )

I've completely lost interest in LJ, despite the fact that I check it at least once a day and get mad that no one makes any real posts. My life has been a lot busier than I thought it would be this semester, and not exactly everything I had hoped. I knew things would be different--but it was impossible to say how. Now that it's finally here, I ( Read more... )

Even after the president's address on Thursday night and his promise of a disaster hotline and millions of dollars in federal aid, FEMA still cannot deal with the devastation in New Orleans (see today's headlines in the New York Times). All I keep thinking is: if FEMA cannot handle a natural disaster, how are they supposed to handle a terrorist ( Read more... )

It's sad that it takes an unspeakable tragedy like Hurricane Katrina to prove what an ineffectual leader President Bush is. When you cut funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency because of the Republican "small government" litany and make comments during your first visit to the damaged zone like, "I have to go now, but we're going to ( Read more... )

I'm starting to miss Spain. I knew it would happen eventually, but I'm still a little surprised. I told myself while I was there that I should enjoy it as much as I could since it would be over before I knew it--but in typical Me fashion I didn't take my own advice. The memories come back suddenly and randomly, like thinking about Sol and Parque ( Read more... )