Monthly Archives: April 2007

Clarion vs. Grad School

4/30/2007 – 3:12 pm

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I’ve been thinking about the different experiences of attending Clarion and completing my MA in Creative Writing. Not surprisingly, they’re very different experiences, and both have been overwhelmingly good experiences. For me at least. And I should say that I had a great (and successful) Clarion class and that [...]

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Summer Reading

4/28/2007 – 9:35 pm

I brought back John Dos Passos’ USA Trilogy today to the tune of $41.15 in credit. I’d tried to read part of The 42nd Parallel over spring break and my enthusiasm flagged almost immediately. When I told a couple of my school buddies I was planning to read it, their simultaneous question was, [...]

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The Title Tips and More On Reading

4/28/2007 – 4:02 pm

I’ve only watched the briefest of highlights from the English league but it was a miraculous morning. Man Ure went down 2-0 away to Everton only to storm back to win 3-2, and Chelski went down 1-0 Bolton, leveled it, then went up 2-1 before finally drawing 2-2. A win to Man Ure [...]

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Zombification

4/27/2007 – 1:13 pm

There’s that part in Fight Club where Edward Norton talks about insomnia, saying you’re never really asleep…and you’re really never awake. That’s how I feel because for three nights running I’ve been having school dreams. Not bad school dreams like you’re running down the hallway because you overslept for your exam or you [...]

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Lunacy and Another Eerily Accurate Online Quiz

4/24/2007 – 9:47 pm

School has gotten stupidly busy here in the last dying weeks and blogging is always the first thing to go. Expert shorter posts and maybe (horrors!) a day here and there without a post.

From Dave Schwartz:

What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North [...]

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Contributor Copy Monday

4/23/2007 – 1:16 pm

I just received my contributor’s copies of Weird Tales, featuring my story “Working Out Our Salvation.” Happily, it has an awesome full-page illustration to accompany the story.
This is the special launch of the “new look” of the magazine and (although I may be biased) I have to say I like it. It also [...]

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Footballing Madness

4/22/2007 – 3:08 pm

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Madness. That’s all can be said heading into the last month of the European footie season. The highlights from England:
* Man Ure and Chelski neck and neck at the top of the table
* Five teams competing for a spot in Europe
* Six (!) teams in serious danger of relegation (well, [...]

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Dr. Scholl, Sam Delany, and Lil’ Evil

4/20/2007 – 8:01 pm

Only two more indoor footie sessions until the facility shuts down the noon pick-up until mid-October. It’s been a lot of fun, despite the fact that my body is trashed from the shins down. My ankles are perpetually sore, several of my toes are bruised or jammed, and my ankle braces have lacerated [...]

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The Snag I Was Waiting For

4/19/2007 – 11:33 am

I knew things were moving along too smoothly. Everything has been lining up for me to take my MA exam by June 1, do my creative writing project over the summer, graduate in August, and start the Ph.D. in September. Great, right?
Except for the fact that I can’t enroll in classes because I’ve [...]

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Two Other Things

4/18/2007 – 12:01 pm

Bored at work? Look for the Bean at doggy daycare! Don’t be fooled by the mostly black German Shepherd, and it helps in finding her if there’s a person in the picture. Athena prefers the company of humans because, you know, she thinks she is one.

And I received an email today asking [...]

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