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{ Monthly Archives } July 2008

First Make Sure You Don’t Have Tuberculosis, then Volunteer to Teach Some Kids Something About Words on Paper

Update: This orientation has been postponed. Visit the CLWC website for rescheduling information.
Well, I said I’d be light on the blog until something happened employment-wise, and since I wrote that–or maybe, in some light-a-cigarette-and-the-bus-comes kind of way, *because* I wrote that–I’ve had a little windfall of unexpected employment and coincidentally something nice to report in [...]

2008 07 29 Comments (0)

Links for Time Wasting: 7/28

As some of you probably know, my recent job search has been the exhaustive undertaking of the summer. There have been some very, very minor victories, but mostly its been a lot like dating: a quick talk followed some initial excitement, but ultimately I’m not right for them or they’re not right for me. So [...]

2008 07 28 Comments (0)

The (Mid) Weekend Question: 7/20

I’ve gotten lazy with my relationship to media in recent years, most notably music. I can’t muster up the energy to take chances on music I might not like–because who has that kind of time–so every few months I convince a pop culture savant friend of mine to e-mail me a list of about 30 [...]

2008 07 19 Comments (3)

Behold, the Me Dot Net Wordie

Author, Author tipped me off to the neat little Wordie web app that creates jumble art of documents, websites, blogs, whatever. Here’s what this one looks like (click on the thing for a larger view).
That’s about as exciting as thing are around here these days.

2008 07 19 Comments (0)

Monday Time Wasting: 7/14

Hey, everyone. Hope the weekend was refreshing. I’ve got some projects I’m working on that hopefully will warrant some occasional self-promotion shortly. Until then, here are links to everything under the sun. Enjoy.
Congratulations to more people I know: poets Wade Flecther, Robb St. Lawrence for scoring some fine publications.
Barack Obama told some young writers in [...]

2008 07 14 Comments (2)