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11 September 2009 @ 01:08 pm

The explanation, and a VERY LARGE THANK YOU.

Thanks to

blackletter's shoutout, I have oodles of useful feedback on my grief request below. ( So I thought it might be a good moment to explain why I need rules. )

Tags: dead boyfriend, grad school dreams, writing the beast

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10 September 2009 @ 02:41 am

Rules of engagement.

I'm trying to think up rules for grieving. There are all sorts of artificial time constraints, systems of understanding the process, things one is supposed to DO...it's very open-ended. I rarely try to use the hive-mind, and my readership on LJ is small, but I'm curious, o brilliant friends--if you had to give advice to someone who's grief-struck, what would you say? Are there rules?

Tags: dead boyfriend, writing the beast

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27 August 2009 @ 02:18 pm

Toward an aesthetics of grief. Heh.

I am thinking about purchasing a set of Softer World prints to frame in an interesting way. One of the ones I want is not available, though.

I like the text on: 46, 62, 68, 77, 223 (unavailable).

But I need to make a longer favorites list and see how the art goes together.

Lookie, an awesome way to procrastinate the alien editing I need to finish before Friday.

Tags: art, dead boyfriend

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12 July 2009 @ 03:56 pm

An injunction against ellipses.

Agent blog guest post that is mostly old hat, if nicely condensed. But the ellipses avoidance in dialogue rule is one I hadn't heard before. I like it. Parens and ellipses are to be avoided anyway, and em-dashes used sparingly.

http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/2009/07/guest-blog-week-everything-you-need-to.html

Tags: battlemage!

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14 May 2009 @ 11:53 pm

Your results:
You are Will Riker

Will Riker		100%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		95%
Deanna Troi		75%
Jean-Luc Picard		65%
Mr. Scott		50%
Uhura		50%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		45%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		45%
Chekov		40%
Data		40%
Geordi LaForge		40%
Mr. Sulu		35%
Worf		35%
Beverly Crusher		30%
Spock		25%

At times you are self-centered
but you have many friends.
You love many women, but the right
woman could get you to settle down.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...

Tags: quizzical

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12 February 2009 @ 08:25 pm

Tweets for Today

15:22 Back to electric blonde. So long as I don't get cast in anything (Wonderful Life rabble rabble) I should get to keep it. #
17:07 I have a trouble student. He seems to thrive on blatantly ignoring me, leaving trash in the classroom, the usual drill. Grr. #
17:09 This has happened before. Perhaps if I pull him aside...seems like the trouble students are usually troubled. Empathy, empathy. #

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11 February 2009 @ 07:05 am

Tweets for Today

17:56 Finally made it back to my house. So much white out there...this winter is a snow-pocalypse. #

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08 February 2009 @ 07:07 am

Tweets for Today

09:41 Tweeps is the collective noun for those who follow you on Twitter? Learn something new every day. #

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06 February 2009 @ 07:07 am

Tweets for Today

17:09 I solemnly swear I will never Twitter in class again. It was a one-time idiocy. #
17:09 That said, today's class discussion? Awesome. Today, I love my students. #
17:10 @blackletter Get well soon, love! #
17:12 @Solop Oooh, that's a tough call. Karma's probably tops right now, but Sushi Fuji is catching up. We should do cute sushi lunch, soon. #
17:13 @Solop That Letter to the Editor re: SRL was lovely. I hope that when the budget climate changes, SRL will come back bigger and better. #
17:16 @BeckyDaggett Thinking of seeing Brighton Beach again tomorrow; one of my GA friends in ushering. Granny's karaoke post-show? #

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04 February 2009 @ 08:48 am

Tweets for Today

15:53 That President's Letter is terrifying as all get out. AZ is not the place to be for academics...not for the next few years. #
15:53 I can has grad school? #
15:54 Do not want to teach my class. I'm tired, still feeling under the weather, and I have nothing to say. Blah. Guess I'll wing it... #
17:41 Am Twittering from class while the students do in-class writing. This probably makes me a terrible teacher. Sigh. #
17:42 @Solop I want to hang out at Macy's with you! Instead of teaching my class... #
17:42 @JudithZZZ Yay Antony! Good to see you here, too. #

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03 February 2009 @ 07:33 am

Tweets for Today

15:58 Coworker is back to her usual tricks. Makes me tired, tired, tired. #
15:59 @highball_life Got a strep test last Friday, was just a nasty 14-day cold. Hopefully yours will be as well? #

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30 January 2009 @ 03:23 pm

Tweets for Today

16:18 Swollen throat, class cancelled. I am staying in tonight, with tea by my side. #

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29 January 2009 @ 07:24 am

Tweets for Today

18:27 @fauxcool Ooh, I loved Ben Button. Super uplifting; you'll like it. Go, go, go! #
18:28 Everyone really should see Gran Torino. Eastwood critiques his own hyper-masculine ouvre. I loved it lots. #
20:28 Burf. Just got back from Mamma Luisa's Italian overload. Now I go to the gym. Burble. #

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28 January 2009 @ 07:28 am

Tweets for Today

20:35 Vista Vista Vista. Like Martha Martha Martha, but worse. Trying to build Vista assignments is like pulling teeth. With a rusty chainsaw. #
20:37 @blackletter Post-structuralism is soooo twentieth century. I'm 90% sure I'm in binary opposition to your metacognition. #
20:38 @fauxcool, welcomes! #
20:39 I can't wait to get a phone with functioning text so I can Twitter like a normal person, instead of bingeTwitter. I am a Twitter bulimic. #
20:45 I am often a much better friend via social networking sites than I'm capable of being in real life. Damn this modern age. #
21:03 @KravStorm Yeah, I love my Mac...I usually carry it eveywhere, but my university doesn't have campus-wide wi-fi coverage, so is hit or miss. #
21:05 @KravStorm Yup, and we're required to use it. It burns my soul. And my students' souls. Archaic technology, ra ra ra! #
21:06 @KravStorm, Wow. Today I learned what post-structuralism is. It's that aunt who always brings fruitcake to family reunions. Hee! #
21:55 @blackletter Pope Pope Pope! #
21:56 @mickell So I have you to blame for all these hideous puppies and their terrible download speeds. #
22:04 I am nearing my 100th update. #
22:05 Better make sure I post something truly, earth-shatteringly important...

Damn. #

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27 January 2009 @ 10:41 pm

Blackletter totally wrote this short story.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1309#comic

Tags: silly

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27 January 2009 @ 07:16 am

Tweets for Today

20:14 Am going to the gym, then home to call blackletter. Woo! #
23:10 obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/ Obamicon me is tragically down, but I KNOW you all need artsy pics of yourselves, so... #
23:13 @highball_life Dear God, that script is fantastic. *dies giggling* #

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26 January 2009 @ 07:14 am

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15:11 Must grade. Sitting at Bookman's, feeling crotchety, wishing this stack of papers would just disappear. #
15:12 There are so. Many. Copies. Of the Twilight books in print. This thought terrifies me. #

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24 January 2009 @ 07:35 am

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11:31 @beeprint, Welcomes! #

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23 January 2009 @ 07:40 am

Tweets for Today

15:56 @KravStorm Warm is good! #
15:57 @Solop Fascinating, Jim. The whole sudden Kennedy thing came out of left field anyway. #
15:58 I'm highly meritorious. My university says so. Woo! #
15:58 My evil class: 4.1/5. My happy class that I loved? 3.9/5. I'm so confused. Did they not know how much I loved them? #

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22 January 2009 @ 07:25 am

Tweets for Today

15:53 @mickell Funny that, I'm about to go bore my two classes. #
15:54 I think I'm going to '80s Night tonight. I'm nigh on certain that this is a bad idea. I'm doing it anyway. #
15:54 I'm also missing the boyfriend playing open mic two nights in a row. I am a jerky girlfriend with a crazy social life. #
15:55 @blackletter I vote SPN, SPN!! #

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