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W. H. Auden,
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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Crossroads 


So I guess I am going to stop stressing about how often I post here and just post whenever. Too often, I get to feeling like I should be posting here like every other day or once a week, but I am going to give that up. If I only post two or three times a month, so be it. Blogs can take up a lot of your time if you let them--obviously, right? Anyway, I figured I would at least check in here and post something. I am still going to blog occasionally and am not going anywhere. I didn't want anyone to think that I disappeared.

The school thing seems to be going as well as it normally does, except now it really is crunch time. I know I have said that before, but I really feel like this is my last chance to make it. If I can turn in three term papers at the end of the next three weeks, I will be in good shape and will be able to go to school in the winter. If not, I must make some changes. Anyway, I am enough caught up on school to where I think I can actually pull this off, but I am not going to focus on it too much. I just plan on keeping my head down, and putting my nose to the proverbial grindstone. We shall see what comes of all of this.

On the personal front, I think I am really making progress. I have been cooking my own breakfasts and dinners lately (even if the dinners usually only consist of George-foreman-grilled-chicken-breasts). I have even been to the gym three times this weeks. I may be over doing it right now, but maybe not. I think I can keep this up for a little while. Tonight, after laundry, I am going to be finishing my novel (50 pages to go) and writing my report for Monday's class. Then, I start in on reading my theory book, which will probably take me all weekend to do. Should be a full weekend.

The only really interesting things in my opinion, besides doing more work than usual, are the dreams I have been having lately. Usually, I walking am in a crowd of people, none of them with faces or anything, but all shorter than me. It is dark, like the inside of a movie theatre, and I am having a hard time fitting through small doors. Each door I walk through is really thin and cramped. I have to turn sideways and squeeze through. All of which winds up making me feel frustrated. I am not sure what these dreams mean, except maybe that I am trying to fit in somewhere and having a little trouble doing so. Who knows? Anyway, that's it for this blog post. More later sometime.

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[-- Biographoria --]
I used to be a college graduate student majoring in English. For a year, I had worked hard as a Teaching Assistant at a fairly large Northwestern USA grad school. I've spent a few years reading all about Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, and all of the other standard theoretical English fare. According to my ex-girlfriend, I am an incredible nerd, a Star Trek and Futurama watching "Nerd," something on the scale just below pocket protectors. Living on the Northwest coast of Amercia, I currently divide my time between studying Graphic Design, learning to enjoy the constant rain, and devoting hours to watching television; and with any remaining time, I plaintively search for any place I can encounter a dark corner equipped with WiFi, so ensconced in a virtual cellar with my laptop, I can shoot off ill-considered words into the further developing reaches of cyberspace.
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While surfing through the effusive waves of the net, I found these following blogs somewhat interesting for various reasons; you might too. Then again, you might not:
[<] Ze Frank
[<] Izzle Pfaff!
[<] Quickos
[<] Web Zen
[<] Tom Chi
[<] Making Light
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These are eddies, currents, and pools of the net that I usually find myself drifiting into on a daily basis:

Boing Boing

The Astronomy Picture of the Day

Kevin and Kell: a daily comic strip found only on the web!

Player Vs. Player: another comic, beware of panda attack!

Angry Bear Comics: My own attempt at the comic form!"

Cat and Girl: Truly, a comic to be admired down thru the ages.
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Various are the interests and images that fleetingly pass before us. Similarly, I thus parade these sites before you.

Rubin and Ed: A fantastically weird movie you have probably never seen. Can your cat eat a whole watermelon?

Raymond Scott, sure to be oddly familiar, are a treat for those inclined. Powerhouse is really something to check out.

See America without having to leave your car! You might even see the Uniroyal Gals
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