All I Can Say Is…
voncookie | April 30, 2008
…feh. If only Salieri were around to absolve me of my mediocrity, I’d be fine. Until then, back to our regularly scheduled failing to live up to my own standards. ::hush::
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Bleak
voncookie | April 29, 2008
I want to write today. I want to do many things today. But the world is bleak and scorched, and I have no place in it. Days like this, it would be best to hide in my apartment, on my couch, just wait for this terrible paralyzing melancholy to pass. Oh, that it would pass! [...]
That’s Tentacular!
voncookie | April 28, 2008
Eugenics has a finger in every pie. It is my job to dissect as many pies as possible without damaging the fingers in them. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of lies, four and twenty fingers, stuck in perfect pies. Genetically perfect pies. Tentacles everywhere.
Netsuke with a Machete
voncookie | April 27, 2008
I’m doing delicate work these days, trying to work up a conference paper that deals with eugenics. Now, eugenics is a touchy issue. And accusing an entire publication of taking a eugenicist approach to science is a little dangerous. And so it feels, as I work on this piece of art that is the Conference [...]
LOL Pooty-Poot!
voncookie | April 26, 2008
This just killed me. Enjoy. And I even HATE Lord of the Rings. see more funny political pictures
When Did This Happen?
voncookie | April 26, 2008
Second night in a row, I’m glued to the TV, watching an SF Giants game. I used to hate baseball. And now I can’t take my eyes off it. And all I can think about is how I want to learn all the ins and outs of the game, how I must purchase “Baseball for [...]
Poetry of My Youth: Adrienne Rich
voncookie | April 26, 2008
IN A CLASSROOM by Adrienne Rich Talking of poetry, hauling the books arm-full to the table where the heads bend or gaze upward, listening, reading aloud, talking of consonants, elision, caught in the how, oblivious of why: I look in your face, Jude, neither frowning nor nodding, opaque in the slant of dust-motes over the [...]
Disobeying Stuart
voncookie | April 25, 2008
When I was in undergrad at Small Extremely Liberal Liberal Arts College, I took one (count it) creative writing course, one that required naught in terms of submissions for acceptance into the course. (God knows I never would have had the nerve to take a real creative writing course, lest I be rejected from the [...]
Overlords Meeting, Like an Iceberg, Dead Ahead
voncookie | April 24, 2008
I need to get out of my office. I need to get out of the office and into the library so that I can prepare for my Overlords meeting. I need to have something good for them. And I need to be prepared to field their criticism. So off to the library I go. And [...]
Why I Hate The U.S. Economy Right Now
voncookie | April 23, 2008
I keep dreaming of the Madrid Metro, the stops at Delicias and Acacias, and my little apartment right between them… I’m wearing the zapatos de sangre today, yes. They no longer make my feet bleed. They have been completely broken in. I miss Spain terribly. I hate the weak dollar for keeping me from traveling. [...]
There Is Actually Too Much To Write About
voncookie | April 22, 2008
…and I’m way too tired to do it. I’ll be back later to fill in this post with some useful information. Suffice it to say that the Student Senate at Big University sucks, and that in order to give my 3-minute presentation on behalf of the Lit Mag, I had to wait around in Senate [...]
Back When I Used to Journal…
voncookie | April 21, 2008
Back when I used to journal… …I used the word “pain” at least once every other page… …I understood all to well my relationship to my parental units, my friends, my boyfriends and lovers, myself… …I tended to repeat myself, telling the same stories again and again, keeping them alive like tiny Olympic torches whose [...]
Sleep of the Damned: 4 a.m. This Time, Why So Cruel?
voncookie | April 20, 2008
It’s the Lit Mag. The Lit Mag waking me up at 4 a.m., worried about the budget for next year. Funny thing is… I’m not going to be doing the Lit Mag next year. However, all solicitations for funding for next year are due this year, so I’m stuck writing them once again. Not that [...]
Notes from Underground: Dissertation Update 1
voncookie | April 19, 2008
Everybody’s workin’ through the weekend… I tend to have periodic ADD, and today was no exception. Kept trying to work and getting… somewhere… slowly… like the proverbial tortoise. Who’d’ve thought that I’d be two years into my dissertation and still taking notes? Sheesh. So far today, I’ve taken two aimless drives, eaten one burrito, drunk [...]
Errata: What It Means to Be a “REAL” Writer
voncookie | April 19, 2008
Yesterday’s post has been nagging at me. I said something about 89% of academics wanting to be “real” writers, meaning novelist, poet or screenwriter/filmmaker. Ever since I published the post, it has occurred to me that I may not be right in this case. That I may have overstepped my bounds a little bit. Because, [...]
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