The horrible truth about gifted and talented programs. (Damn. I’m going to have to tell Steve to carry out his threat/promise of password-protecting the wifi until I’m done with the revisions.) Back to work now.
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…for a while here. I’m making the final changes to The Rules for Hearts manuscript. Wish me luck and speed.
with my phone. All from the Southtown neighborhood in San Antonio. I’ll do some more soon.
After I play a bunch of DDR, my knees inflict dance dance retribution.
So my sister, she does not speak English, and in the middle of the night she wakes me up she says Brother, brother, I think our neighbor needs help, she is screaming! And I get up and I look in the window — they never close the blinds, it is filthy in there, you would [...]
Drawn & Quarterly will release a five-book series collecting the Moomin comic strips by Tove Jansson. An example of the extent of my devotion to all things Moomin: the only time I thought seriously about getting a tattoo, I was thinking it would be of Little My.
So there’ve been a bunch of articles and posts about schools banning LJ, MySpace, xanga, FaceBook & other related sites. I’m curious: those of you in schools (students or teachers), does your school restrict these sites? If so, was there a specific incident that triggered the restriction?
According to the Lulu Titlescorer, The Rules for Hearts has a 26.3% chance of being a bestseller. That’s four percent higher than the score for Empress! Needless to say, this is bullshit. But still! Make up titles and post the results in the comments!
At the gym this morning, I was thinking about my gym teachers. I hated them, obviously. Well, not Mr. Stamos so much — he was married to my fourth grade teacher and she was super nice, so he was sort of okay. Besides, it was elementary school — I’d only had a few years of [...]
At the entrance to the Burnside Bridge, the sign says: “Expect Delays.” It’s not a bad policy. Running errands? Getting in shape? Looking for a job? Writing a book? Expect delays. Don’t expect that it won’t happen, but expect delays.
