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…yes, I may be officially crazy. Because, in addition to my commitments at school, work, and home, I seem to have helped craft a new writing project idea for November. You may have heard of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. The idea behind this is kind of crazy, kind of compelling: write a novel-length piece [...] E-book manufacturers, get back to me when you’re serious about providing a product that doesn’t treat me either like a criminal or a child. I was pretty jazzed about the Kindle when it first came out. Sitting here as a Metro commuter at the halfway point in my second graduate degree, just the idea of not having to lug a bunch of textbooks is enough to get me at least mildly excited about the prospects of e-readers. However, then [...] I got a Wii console for my 40th birthday – because though I may be 40, inside I am 12. I generally use it to work out (EA Sports Fitness – though occasionally glitchy – is surprisingly intense), though I did get sucked into “World of Goo” on a friend’s recommendation. Other than that, we [...] Just tired and uncreative at the moment. I’ve had no odd or awkward encounters on Metro, no epiphanies, no humorous anecdotes about life with the librarian and our zoo. Just a lot of head-down, straight ahead life stuff. Sorry. More later. Promise. I haven’t given up on blogging, but right now the work/school/life thing is kind [...] Little did I know when I wrote “The Third Bird Carnival” that John had never read any Thurber. I promised him this morning that I would attempt to rectify that, since Thurber makes perfect reading-aloud material. We used to read aloud during dinner preparation when I was growing up. Humorists like James Thurber and Patrick [...] |
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