Monthly Archives: April 2008

Bad Mechanics

4/30/2008 – 12:59 pm

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Rehabbing my knee is going well, sort of. The funny thing about rehab is that, like working out in general, pain and exhaustion are the way to health. Every two weeks my rehab regimen changes, getting increasingly more difficult. I made sizable gains in the first few weeks but things have plateaued since—which my rehab [...]

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Poetry Everywhere

4/29/2008 – 11:56 pm

Just a quick shout out to a truly exceptional project that my Creative Writing advisor headed up. It’s called “Poetry Everywhere” and it teamed up poets (some from UWM, others from elsewhere) with film students to create animated shorts that will be playing on televisions found in buses in Milwaukee and elsewhere around the country—Atlanta, [...]

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Holy Cannoli

4/27/2008 – 2:26 pm

Wow. I didn’t expect Man Ure to field an under-strength side against Chelski at the Bridge, and I certainly didn’t expect them to lose. Title race on? Man Ure is home to West Ham and away to Wigan whereas the Russians are away to Newcastle and home to Bolton. You’d have to give the [...]

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More School Blabber

4/25/2008 – 9:37 am

I have mentioned this before, but I have to give a shout-out to my professor who assigned a review of scholarship. The idea is that before you set out to write a paper for a conference you should know what’s been done already. So you collect as much information on your intended subject as possible [...]

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Shout Out to the Bean

4/23/2008 – 10:43 am

Every now and then it’s good to give your dog a shout-out on your blog, just in case she’s reading. Below, Athena and I watching the sun set over Lake Superior. Candidate for best dog in the universe.

Current Mood: Okay |

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Registering and Hating Landon Donovan

4/22/2008 – 9:12 am

I registered for Fall 2008 classes today but it was kind of silly. First of all, if I don’t get a TA position I’ll only be taking one class. If I do get a TA position I need to take two but I don’t know what times, so I figured better safe than sorry and [...]

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Putting My Head Down

4/21/2008 – 8:17 am

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I am cautiously optimistic about the weeks between now and the end of the semester. As long as I keep going at the same pace (taxing) I should be a-okay. I may even finish early-ish, which would be good considering we leave for vacation before the due date for my last paper.
I’m finishing [...]

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Saturday Evening Post

4/19/2008 – 5:29 pm

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I finished Wild Indians and Other Creatures by Adrian Louis yesterday and loved it. One of our articles this week is our professor’s 1996 interview with Louis for Native Americans and I found this exchange amusing, for absolutely no reason whatsoever:

NA: Who were some of the teachers [at Brown] there that [...]

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Be Careful What You Wish For

4/17/2008 – 2:31 pm

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Right, so I had my workshop-resistant story workshopped yesterday and, guess what? It went over like a lead balloon. So at least I got that part right.
Those who got the Borgesian drift of it liked it, or at least gave it a favorable read. The majority however felt manipulated, irritated, and didn’t ever [...]

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The Home Stretch

4/16/2008 – 2:20 pm

First off, what’s with my bad luck with iPods lately? First, mine dies. Then after Amy graciously allows me to use hers, iTunes (in a delightful fit of whimsy) decides to format the $#@%* thing. This glitch has something to do with a wider computer problem I’ve had since a problematic installation of Audacity, a [...]

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