voncookie | February 28, 2009
So, that interview I blew yesterday? Apparently, I suck at gauging how my interviews are going, because they called me about an hour later offering me a flyback. After I hung up the phone with them, I could not stop laughing: laughing at my earlier assessment of the interview, laughing at myself for being so [...]
voncookie | February 27, 2009
I just screwed up an interview. Man. I chose the wrong part of my research to explain. Criminy. I’m *never* going to get a job if I keep this up.
voncookie | February 25, 2009
There’s a new post over at my other site, more musings on Fred & Ginger… for those of you who are interested, follow the link below. “Top Hat” and Modernism
voncookie | February 25, 2009
For Women: It must be limp and somewhat stringy, preferably woven, but knit is okay too, as long as it retains its limpness and its stringiness. You must wrap it once around your neck so that the two ends fall down in front. Only muted colors please, and please look sullen and overworked when you [...]
voncookie | February 23, 2009
What are 20 poetry books (if there are twenty) that made you fall in love with poetry, the books that made you think: I want to do this, I need to do this. What are the books that kept you going? Don’t put down the books that you think you’re “supposed,” to like, but list [...]
voncookie | February 22, 2009
We’re having a winter storm… I’m guessing by the photo below it may last a few days. Take a look:
voncookie | February 21, 2009
6:00 p.m. Am within 250 words of my goal, but I doubt I’ll be getting any more written today. You see, my best friends here are moving tomorrow morning to SoCal, and I just went to say goodbye to them. You may know them here as “Overworked Lawyer” and “LaceWhore”. Well, they’ve got the U-Haul [...]
voncookie | February 20, 2009
10:20 a.m. Oh my, do I have my work cut out for me today! I’m at about 2.5K words, and today (and today alone, no bleeding into tomorrow) by midnight, I want to double it. It’s like a challenge grant on KQED, only my reward will not be in monetary terms, but rather in the [...]
voncookie | February 19, 2009
2:35 pm I got another 300 words or so written, plus tacked on a bunch of footnotes. (I do love footnotes, especially when the text in them is so long that they spill over into the next page. I also love EndNote’s interface with Word 2007. So sweet.) I’m realizing that all the books I’ve [...]
voncookie | February 19, 2009
You may have noticed that I’ve been a little angry lately in some of my postings. That’s because we here at vonCookie are a little angry, and that’s because everything is in a holding pattern, the holding pattern that comes before big changes… or perhaps no changes, leaving me in another holding pattern for another [...]
voncookie | February 18, 2009
I think I’ve hit my tipping point. We all have them. This is the tipping point where I kick myself in my own ass and start getting shit done, and stop being such a wuss. What the hell? I mean, really, what gives? I’ve been at this for how long now? (Those of you who [...]
voncookie | February 17, 2009
So, the job hunt. Yeah, the job hunt. It can now officially go suck an egg. I just found out something that has me so pissed off, but that, for the sake of professionalism, I will not disclose. Suffice it to say that some people are just *rude*. Silence, in this case is NEVER golden. [...]
voncookie | February 17, 2009
10:51 a.m. Had a 15-minute writing session, and then a 30-minute session, as suggested by a colleague… you know, build into longer writing sessions that don’t go past 45 minutes. I have my first 45-minute session coming up in just a bit, I think… let me check Outlook… oh, I’m mistaken. One more 30-minute session [...]
voncookie | February 17, 2009
Even though I don’t feel quite ready enough to write, I promised myself that I would get a draft done of the theory section of Ch4 by Tuesday. And so here I am, about to start this very daunting section. But after having read I think four books in three days (!), it’s time to [...]
voncookie | February 15, 2009
Just a quick note to say that it smells like either wet dog or stinky feet at this end of the hall of my apartment building. So far, no culprit has been discovered, mangy or otherwise. …ah the joys of communal living…
