Archive for January, 2010

In the parking garage, after the GRE

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
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I took the GRE this morning and pending some sort of doom on the writing section, I should be on my merry way to an MA and my first baby. How exciting.
After the test, I found myself in some sort of strange fog, I lost my parking money, finding it in the pocket of [...]

Computer Maintenance After Midnight

Monday, January 18th, 2010

If you follow my Twitter you’ll soon figure out that my days begin and end freakishly early since I teach school. Since today is Martin Luther King Day and there’s no school, I decided to stay up and do some work on my computer.
Last month, my beloved 15-inch Macbook Pro, “Boyfriend” started having kernel panics [...]

Facebook and (In)fidelity

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

When I play World of Warcraft, and I’m on a long flightpath, I read the “shared” articles in my Google reader feed and read some really crazy stories. The one that’s really been bothering me is a Telegraph story
about how one in five divorces in the UK cite Facebook as the reason for their divorce. [...]

Mistborns, Writing Resolutions and Spring Semester

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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School is baaack.  What the what?! I can’t believe that it’s already 2010 and that Christmas break is over. My writing resolutions have been going well, most of my work so far has been terrible so far. I have no real ideas quite yet, but am sketching out a few things that will hopefully take [...]

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