February 2012
62 posts
1 tag
1 tag
“It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 Salon interview. (via bobdobalina)
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
Rejection #2
Didn’t get in at University of Wisconsin. Plus: I never have to live in Wisconsin. Minus: I still don’t know if I’ll be going to graduate school this fall. I have 7 places left to hear back from.
This is the most nerve-wracking of things.
Plan B lives include librarian, high school English teacher, web designer (ha!), or actual full-time editorial assistant.
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
Sources of In-Flight Entertainment
Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
a flash drive full of cyberpunk anime
a laptop for catching up on my February Flash Fiction Fight to the Death prompts, because I completely fell off the wagon on that thing and I’m terrible
If all goes well, I’ll be in Portland by midnight. ”If all goes well” is such an ominous phrase,...
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
“GREENWOOD, IN—Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator...”
– Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book on The Onion (via millionsmillions)
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
And sometimes I’m working on a Sunday night just so I can add “website design” to my resumé.
On the plus side, I got to procrastinate with homemade cornish pasties, British ale, and Downton Abbey.
2 tags
