Month: November 2007

Just a reminder…

Just a reminder, I really am boycotting NaBloPoMo starting……… NOW!! Update:  Apparently MoFo was in November!  My bad.  I’ll start posting again on Friday.  I need to work on applications for a while.  Sorry. Related posts: Manifesto A spectre is haunting me — the spectre of myself as I ought to be. All the powers…

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Super Secret Project of Mystery!!

A fool says what he knows, a wise man hugs lots of people and charts the rate, frequency and amount in an easy to read area or line graph to display his non-scientific results to his friends and blog readers. —Yiddish proverb For six months now I’ve had a secret Moleskine in which I’ve jotted…

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I am thankful for… friends

My friend Alethea took part in Ramadan with me because she shared the feeling I did. Now she’s writing a novel this month too, despite the fact that she’s a mommy and is going to school and working full time. She has never, ever let me down and in our ten years of friendship, and…

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I have decided to boycott NaBloPoMo

1:  My car broke down and I need $10 to get on a bus for Albuquerque, I usually don’t— 2:  Wow, me too!  What are the odds that the same thing happened to me??  Hey, let’s go ask that guy over there for change together! This is just the post explaining that I’m done with…

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Hobbes was Right!

Why education makes jokes funnier Today I am thankful life isn’t… Calvinball! My friend Frank just proved ((I agree with the conclusion and the steps seem sound, but if it turns out that he’s wrong, I completely disavow ever knowing him.)) that Calvinball is not a sport. See, a sport is an event where two…

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I am thankful for reality

I’m at the Student Union, checking my e-mail. I have a message from a professor I really respect! I open the letter. My writing sample is attached, but it’s unmarked and barely read. The message is: “WTF?? We told you the last time that you weren’t good enough to go to grad school and this…

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