I'm in the middle of putting together applications for writing fellowships, which is basically the same thing as applying to college... again... and they all require a statement of plans, the parameters of which are deliberately vague. (Damn modern writers and their emphasis on self-derived forms ( Read more... )

How can I possibly have too much to do when I have no job, no family, and essentially no responsibilities outside myself and the program? I must have the worst time management skills in the known universe.

It's barely afternoon and already I've had a really good day ( Read more... )

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What follows is the intersection of my failure to recall "Star" and my absurd overreaction to the hydraulic lab's collapse (I'm still depressed!). If you're not a Cornell person, you definitely won't care about what's behind this cut... and, well, even if you are you still might not care.

( NOT JUST OLD BUT ALSO SENILE )

Last Saturday night I went to the Vancouver launch of an annual poetry anthology called The Best Canadian Poetry in English--a modest title. Seven of the contributing poets read their pieces from the anthology and some other work. Among them was Matt Rader, famous in my mind for his tendency to include work from other poets as part of his reading ( Read more... )

Two posts in two days? Yes.

A friend pointed me to this and it's worth an hour of hilarity:

http://www.lolpresidents.com/by-president.pl

I particularly recommend Washington, T. Roosevelt, Cleveland, and Truman. UR BUCK. I HAS IT.

Well, I never thought this day would come. After three or four years on Firefox, I am now in the process of switching back to IE. I don't know what's up with my Firefox lately, but it's become intolerably annoying, and re-installing it hasn't helped. Among the problems I've been experiencing are repeated total refreshes on any page with ads, ( Read more... )

After non-fiction class today, a bunch of us went to the student union for a beer. (You heard right--fuck yes, Canada!) Anyway, we were there talking about journalism and current events and stuff, and this one guy busts out with: "Religion's for fools, eh ( Read more... )

I think I might hate the tenor sax player in the UBC concert winds. Seems like in most of the repertoire we've been playing, the tenor sax doubles the euphonium on all the cool counter-melodic parts, and the bitch just honks on it all. Has she not heard of seniority, that rule of wind bands where saxophones have to mask their sounds under the ( Read more... )