Na Liu and Andrés Vera Martínez's Little White Duck: A Childhood in China (Graphic Universe, 2012) is a memoir in graphic narrative form about Na Liu's childhood in Wuhan in Hubei Province in China in the late 1970s. The illustrator is Liu's husband.


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I finally got around to reading Jon Pineda's debut collection of poems Birthmark (Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, 2004) after reading his second collection The Translator's Diary, his memoir Sleep in Me, and a young adult novel Apology. Birthmark was published as part of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series.


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Wow, I really hate those ads that interrupt LJ viewing. XP

Dear LJ,

Are you there? It's me, pylduck.

My left eye has been red and irritated since yesterday. Allergy eye drops haven't helped. Maybe I need to take more allergy pills. :P

My eyebrows are starting to be more unruly and to poke out all over the place, too. Is this what it means to get older?

Paul

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So the vet says to me, "I want you to think about trying Giles on a hypoallergenic diet." She explained that it would involve strictly feeding Giles ONLY the prescribed food--no dog treats, no human food, absolutely nothing else--for eight weeks. I looked at her skeptically and told her that it is hard for us not to feed the Giles little bits of ( Read more... )

So the other day, a colleague mentioned that his students described me as the professor who always talks about his dog. This is surprising to me since I don't feel like I really talk about Giles that much in class. At least it is a pleasant surprise. There are worse reputations to have ( Read more... )

I find myself in the midst of the Obama baby boom. In the past month, I've been to two baby showers. In the past week, I've run into two professors at my school (who started the same year I did) and discovered that they are pregnant.

I keep cracking/popping my wrists lately since I started lifting some weights again at the gym. They feel tight all the time now. Is it bad to crack joints? Oh, aging.

we're back to 3-cup-coffee mornings (from 2 this summer). plus another cup or two later in the day. i probably need more sleep. :O