Posted in fun, grad skool, tagged info dumps on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Couldn’t get the image to upload, but you can check it out here:
http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/8444/information-dumps/
While you’re there, make some of your own!
Posted in (not) writing, diversions, observations, photography, windows, tagged (not) writing, diversion, Flickr, LOC, photography on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m about to call it a night when I decide to check in on the various neglected blogs I’m no longer finding the time to read. I’m checking Children’s Illustration which has a link to a story that the Library of Congress is putting chunks of it’s photo archives on Flickr.
I am so there in [...]
Posted in MG, writing, tagged writing on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
When I’m starting a new story I sort of have to sneak up on it. Even when I know exactly how it’s going to start I usually get quickly bogged down. I’m like an actor during rehearsal trying to remember his lines and hit his marks. I’m not comfortable, the process isn’t [...]
Posted in dreams, grad skool, tagged anagrams, and then i woke up, nightmare on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Ever wake suddenly from a nightmare and find yourself disoriented, like you don’t recognize the room you’re in, or the bed, or there’s something about the lighting that makes you feel like you’re supposed to be someplace?
Yeah, that happened this morning. And in the haze of realizing where I was I remembered my nightmare was [...]
Posted in (not) writing, grad skool, the man behind the curtain, tagged (not) writing, anxiety, grad school, rez, VT on January 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That’s the best way to explain where my head is at right now. I left the rez with a raging burner under my ass but the heat has yet to get the brain boiling.
Were I a younger man I would fret. I would worry and have ulcers and generally be thinking of myself as a [...]
Posted in diversions, poetry, writing, tagged edward lear, friday, halloween, holiday, limerick, nonsense, poem, poetry, s'more on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Said the Marshmallow Man of Luxor:
“Trick or Treat! Give me what I’ve come for!”
So we gave him a scorch,
With a creme brulee torch,
Then we dined on a forty pound s’more.
Recognizing that the limerick is oft considered juvenile form of poetry, more appealing to boys than girls, I have nonetheless come to embrace [...]
Posted in (not) writing, grad skool, memories, the man behind the curtain, tagged auf wiedersehn, farewell, freinds, goodbye, grad school, karass, so long, vonnegut, wizard of oz on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, here we are, our residency evaluations handed in, our semester plans signed by our advisors and filed, the packages that greeted us when we arrived now on their way home ahead of us. We’ve pre-packed our bags and organized rides to the airport, the train station, and all points of the compass.
We [...]
Posted in grad skool, memories, the man behind the curtain, writing, tagged dance, grad school, poem, prom on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
not really a prom
(adults don’t prom)
more a dance
like a school dance
with decorations and snacks
and a dark room for dancing
not that i danced
not much at least
only a few hours
only until i stopped thinking
about what i looked like
dancing
all jangly, uncoordinated
like i did when i was fourteen
when i would only dance
when no one was home
lost to the music
eyes [...]
Posted in (not) writing, diversions, fun, grad skool, the man behind the curtain, tagged grad school, karaoke, VT on January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Did not sing.
I shouted out some key verses from the wings, but I log promised Suze that I wouldn’t sing for strangers if I haven’t sang for her.
So that’s that.
Because as much as I like to talk and write, I can’t bear the sound of my own singing voice. Besides, there wasn’t enough liquor [...]
Posted in food, grad skool, tagged cafeteria, dorm, grad school, VT on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s something odd about a bunch of mature college students hunkering down to their meals in a cafeteria. It isn’t the food, though there are times when menu items take on the quality of the pale pink mystery meat and undercooked potatoes (always potatoes, every day, morning and night POTATOES!); And it isn’t the prescribed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That’s my grand and insightful conclusion after staying up late in the lounge with a bunch of my fellow campers until just after midnight. Well, midnight was the goal but somehow we all kept at it until after 1 AM. Okay, so i was closer to 2 AM. And who could sleep? Not me, not [...]
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