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NaNoWriMo
So, I've been cheating (more or less) at Nanowrimo for years. I have this Epic Book of Longness that I'm writing, and I use the Nanowrimo thing as an excuse to work on it hardcore throughout the month of November. You'd think it would be done now, right? Not so much. However, I am now at 42,000 words. This was a awesome realization ( Read more... ) -
Sleep
I miss you. I love you. I'm just no good without you. I think about you all day. I just want you back.
ETA: If this is not emphatic enough, when I tried to type "sleep" as the subject, it came out as "spele". Enough said. -
Gah!
I've been wanting to find an affordable house to rent when my lease is up. My mother thinks I should buy a house. BUY. A. HOUSE ( Read more... ) -
Back From DC
So. Much. To. See. I'll post pics and stuff, and perhaps put together an obnoxious multimedia presentation. To sum up, I took 800 pictures, drank 4.5 gal of water in 4 days, slogged through 95 degree heat and 80% humidity, spent $25 on train and bus fare, and saw about 1 million square miles of marble. And DUDE! I was at the White House on ( Read more... ) -
Mad scramble
The Road Trip of Awesome is less than a week away, one of my best friends growing up is visiting tomorrow, a long-absent friend paid a visit last weekend, I've gotten to hang out with my brother and sis-in-law, and get to hang out with friends on Friday. I like it when things are busy ( Read more... ) -
Old School Cooking
I'm looking for a good recipe for a ginger (NOT gingerbread - I'm not a big fan of molasses unless it's wintertime) cake, and came across this:
Miss Leslie's Honey Ginger Cake ( Read more... ) -
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
Oh Great Googly-Moogly! Collin's Getting A Car!
His friend is moving soon, and is buying a new(er) car so Collin is going to buy his pickup off of him. Collin said he may have it as soon as tomorrow, to which I responded by letting out a squeal which may have deafened all nearby dogs.
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Things I Did Not Know About Baghdad
So, I was looking at a picture of my cousin, taken during his last stint in Iraq, and saw something in the background. It looked like an enormous sword. Doing a quick google search, I discovered it was an enormous sword. What had never occurred to me was this: Iraq has remarkable monuments, and having recently been ruled by a megalomaniacal ( Read more... ) -
For laughs.
Because everything is funny about Morris Dancers:
And I've decided that I don't need to know exactly what this song's about. German hip-hop (sort of?) is HI-larious.
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Academic Snobbery
I've attended a series of workshops this week on using Marzano's High-Yield Strategies in writing. The first half was extremely interesting, helpful, and made me excited about teaching writing and excited to dig in and get started on this stuff. Writing is a subject which I adore and have done since (as far as I remember) I was in first grade and ( Read more... )
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