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Well, not being here was interesting. Eventually I stopped having itchy fingers.
Sundries, since last we all spoke:
- gluten-free chicken and beef mini-tacos from Trader Joe's are AMAZING.
- I also bought some prepared chipolte chicken from there, which I had a few weeks ago. This time I noticed on the label that it contains soy sauce that contains wheat, but I didn't get sick from it last time. I know that means my intestines have healed and I have a margin of error now and I know that I should also never have wheat because of what it does to my mood, neural functioning, congnitive abilities, balance and cancer risk. But that's not a lot of wheat, so I'm sort of thinking of saying fuck it, and never doing it again.
- The problem with my second HP book on Amazon will be fixed on Monday. There is more news there, but it is not for revealing yet.
- Went to the Met with Kali and solved the horrible things on our novel we couldn't solve. I feel much better about that. We've also talked a little bit about the problem of writing and schedules.
- Realized I am totally pessimistic and angry about what increasingly seems like a grad school rejection to me. But I found out there are MFA writing programs at several other CUNY's eventhough I couldn't turn them up on goggle, so if I don't get in this year, I'll reapply next year to this one and those. It will be okay. I am assiduously not examining the complexities of why I want to be able to teach. They are obvious and perhaps even quaint.
- This is a fascinating piece of writing: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/opinion/20cohen.html
How do you remember a lost world when it was hateful and evil and wrong, but it was also your childhood and sometimes seemed beautiful? Of course, the piece isn't about that at all, but as a writer reading it, that was the technical question I found in it.
- Spent most of the day listening to Last.fm and it was a day of the awesome 80s there. I'd forgotten how striking and unsettling Bauhaus was when they were being uplifting. We love our audience!
- Have I mentioned how good those minitacos are?
- I watched two more Torchwoods the other day: "They Keep Killing Suzie" and "Random Shoes." They Keep Killing Suzie was great in concept and thought, less exciting in execution, but it was nice to see Indira Varma back and "you're getting shot in the head, very slowly" will stay with me for a very long time. "Random Shoes" made me cry and cry and cry. It could have sucked nd merely been wacky, but it was smart and funny and was like a love letter to fandom from the serene parts of American Beauty. I loved it, but I will also grant that there are convoluted reasons it might be more moving to me than the average person. But I loved it. But: Ianto/Jack -- well that came out of nowhere in that episode. LIke I'm totally into Ianto/Jack, I get Ianto/Jack, but we're never given any reason this shit is going on, are we? That's a little irksome. Talk to me about these episodes, people, they fucked me up.
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marta contacted me to let me know that discussion has/is occuring on my feeling that donations to organizations that support the things maligned in the top-100 interests fiasco. No, I don't know any more than that, but it was kind of her to say so, and at least things we are saying in comments are getting to someone other than just her (since I assume she was not talking to a wall).
- Things I hate: the New York Lottery "Little Bit of Luck" campaign.
- Two more nights and then Patty's back (for three days before she has to travel again; our lives are crazy).
Sundries, since last we all spoke:
- gluten-free chicken and beef mini-tacos from Trader Joe's are AMAZING.
- I also bought some prepared chipolte chicken from there, which I had a few weeks ago. This time I noticed on the label that it contains soy sauce that contains wheat, but I didn't get sick from it last time. I know that means my intestines have healed and I have a margin of error now and I know that I should also never have wheat because of what it does to my mood, neural functioning, congnitive abilities, balance and cancer risk. But that's not a lot of wheat, so I'm sort of thinking of saying fuck it, and never doing it again.
- The problem with my second HP book on Amazon will be fixed on Monday. There is more news there, but it is not for revealing yet.
- Went to the Met with Kali and solved the horrible things on our novel we couldn't solve. I feel much better about that. We've also talked a little bit about the problem of writing and schedules.
- Realized I am totally pessimistic and angry about what increasingly seems like a grad school rejection to me. But I found out there are MFA writing programs at several other CUNY's eventhough I couldn't turn them up on goggle, so if I don't get in this year, I'll reapply next year to this one and those. It will be okay. I am assiduously not examining the complexities of why I want to be able to teach. They are obvious and perhaps even quaint.
- This is a fascinating piece of writing: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/opinion/20cohen.html
How do you remember a lost world when it was hateful and evil and wrong, but it was also your childhood and sometimes seemed beautiful? Of course, the piece isn't about that at all, but as a writer reading it, that was the technical question I found in it.
- Spent most of the day listening to Last.fm and it was a day of the awesome 80s there. I'd forgotten how striking and unsettling Bauhaus was when they were being uplifting. We love our audience!
- Have I mentioned how good those minitacos are?
- I watched two more Torchwoods the other day: "They Keep Killing Suzie" and "Random Shoes." They Keep Killing Suzie was great in concept and thought, less exciting in execution, but it was nice to see Indira Varma back and "you're getting shot in the head, very slowly" will stay with me for a very long time. "Random Shoes" made me cry and cry and cry. It could have sucked nd merely been wacky, but it was smart and funny and was like a love letter to fandom from the serene parts of American Beauty. I loved it, but I will also grant that there are convoluted reasons it might be more moving to me than the average person. But I loved it. But: Ianto/Jack -- well that came out of nowhere in that episode. LIke I'm totally into Ianto/Jack, I get Ianto/Jack, but we're never given any reason this shit is going on, are we? That's a little irksome. Talk to me about these episodes, people, they fucked me up.
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marta contacted me to let me know that discussion has/is occuring on my feeling that donations to organizations that support the things maligned in the top-100 interests fiasco. No, I don't know any more than that, but it was kind of her to say so, and at least things we are saying in comments are getting to someone other than just her (since I assume she was not talking to a wall).- Things I hate: the New York Lottery "Little Bit of Luck" campaign.
- Two more nights and then Patty's back (for three days before she has to travel again; our lives are crazy).
