Notes of the Day #1: OMG!
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When the wind winds from the west to the east, you could at least do your best to be a good sport and curl up with a story and make some hot chocolate and watch a movie or something. You could water the plants or feed the cats or try to count the pigeons.
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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Moon at apogee. Renaissance man Michelangelo born, 1475.
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Now are the winds about us in their glee / Tossing the slender tree.”
– WIlliam Gilmore Simms
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Just grit your teeth and answer the question.
I’ve kind of worked myself into a conversational corner, in part, with this thesis project. There’s no incentive to share my research with people who aren’t fixated on serial killers (only a few of you) or lumberjacks (only very few of you).
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I’ve kind of worked myself into a conversational corner, in part, with this thesis project. There’s no incentive to share my research with people who aren’t fixated on serial killers (only a few of you) or lumberjacks (only very few of you).
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Last July in trying to make these daily posts manageable I stopped writing about my day-to-day life here, but I’ve found that I haven’t started writing about it anywhere else. That, and the daily posts are so spare now, there isn’t an urgent recent to post them.
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Ember Day. Puerto Rico became U.S. territory, 1917.
– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Anguilla.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s your price?
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As you may know, right now I’m working on earning my MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. My Creative Thesis is a novel, Hungry Rats (formerly Adrift on the Mainstream), and by the end of the semester I hope to have ready a polished manuscript to submit for publication.
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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Congress authorized first U.S. Census, 1790.
– LINK OF THE WEEK –
The Emo Scourge.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What frightens you in a book?
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