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the more of less

Posted in VC, fiction, grad skool, process on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I couldn’t sleep last night.  My body was tired but the brain wouldn’t let go.  This has happened before, and it has happened after I have had meals with curry powder in them, and I’m half wondering if I should follow up that with some research in the hopes of developing a safe alternative to [...]

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herky-jerky posting

Posted in blogging, tagged , on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Been a hairy semester.  Not getting time to blog.  Used to be more current.  Used to be able to stay on top of two blogs.  Can’t even speak complete sentences.
Also: Why does it always seem like no matter what book I’m reading everyone is reading something I feel like I should be reading instead?

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my favorite thing i wrote all week

Posted in blogging, classics, movies, music, tagged , , , , , , on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Man, it isn’t everyday you get an opportunity to rhyme the word estrus.

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the expanding thesis monster

Posted in the man behind the curtain, writing, tagged , on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is the “lost weekend,” the last big push before the next deadline in Monday morning.  The week has been a little rocky due to a scheduled visit to the dentist and another to the doctor.  The teeth are fine, mostly, just the same old stuff I’ve always had to deal with.  The other thing [...]

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failure to drive

Posted in VC, essay, grad skool, the man behind the curtain, tagged , , , , , , , on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Things were running slow on the old computer today, and realizing I’d had it up and running for several days I decided to shut it down and restart it.
Uh oh.
It wouldn’t kick over, its chrome apple stared at me like a lobotomized hedgehog, the little bar clock spinning and spinning and chasing its tail like [...]

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behold! a statement!

Posted in VC, observations on March 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After a solid week of sorting back through my research, making notes on index cards, rereading source materials, sitting and outlining and thinking really hard, I finally managed to write  thesis statement.
At least, i think it’s my thesis statement.
It isn’t full of rhetorical questions, it isn’t full of unanswered literal questions, it doesn’t have a [...]

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out of the mouths of researchers

Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

That maxim that you learn something new every day?  Seems like these past six weeks or so have been making up for all the days I was loafing around learning nothing.
Here are a pair of gems separated by a few years that got me thinking of non-thesis (but still relevant) ideas.  A researcher found that [...]

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living in a cave

Posted in (not) writing, opinion, reading, tagged , , on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Was it just yesterday that I came up with that “brilliant” idea for saving publishing?  You know, the idea of author’s selling peeks of their books for a buck and then giving them the option to buy the rest, a la iTunes?
Farking Amazon and their spelunking Kindle.  Apparently they announced yesterday that you can get [...]

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the paradigm shift

Posted in (not) writing, blogging on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I randomly check Facebook when I’m stumped or need a break during writing and research.  It’s a quick blip.  You look, maybe comment, then jump away.  But Becky Clark linked to her own blog post (which I have now also linked to) about the recent demise of the Rocky Mountain News and whether or not [...]

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