SERPENT AVENGERS AND BULLET PROOF WORD-VESTS
Thanks everyone for all the words of encouragement, regarding my last post. The problem is no more resolved, but I feel a lot better. The school offices dont seem up to helping me out, they all turned me away.
But I did write a new slogan for the UIS administration
UIS Well help you through every hurdleunless we can...
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ladymaze:
Yeah...I know. I just haven't yet managed to justify the expense to myself, ha. 
So, Ive been going through a very long process of working out various bits of meaningless red tape, trying to get my financial aid this year. Up to this week, I was still waiting for it.
Apparently, all that struggle was in vain, because the Financial Aid office is (only now) telling me that they cannot give me ANY money. They say theres a policy...
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Apparently, all that struggle was in vain, because the Financial Aid office is (only now) telling me that they cannot give me ANY money. They say theres a policy...
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"...there be method in it."
Plots and story can be elusive and escape the would be storyteller at the most inopportune moments. Fortunately, there are several, scientific and serious minded methods to regain the narrative footing one of which is to turn up the music, play air guitar, and sing the Shakespeare quote one headed the current chapter with, until one finds the story once...
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kiki_michelle:
Have a great day!
kiki_michelle:
do work nights or something?
MIND MUSIC FROM THE THIRD POLE
I was working out a plot point and I took a post-midnight walk. I was on the more vegetated portion of campus, trees and bushes and shadows and places to sit. There were three naked flag poles and a blowing wind. The wind strummed the flagpoles and produced noise. The thicker pole took the wind, maybe the wind rattled...
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ladymaze:
Gilgamesh IS cool.
And Beowulf is totally punk rock, man.
I'm old-fashioned and proud of it, yet utterly up-to-the-moment and timeless and an old soul with a childlike worldview. Time is a myth, the way we conceive of it. Time means nothing.
The word is the thing, not the play, and the word is the beginning and the end and everything in between. The word is the thought is the poem is the meaning.
And I need more sleep.
And Beowulf is totally punk rock, man.
I'm old-fashioned and proud of it, yet utterly up-to-the-moment and timeless and an old soul with a childlike worldview. Time is a myth, the way we conceive of it. Time means nothing.
The word is the thing, not the play, and the word is the beginning and the end and everything in between. The word is the thought is the poem is the meaning.
And I need more sleep.
I Want My Mommy!
Holy-torporous-sleep Batman!
My plan was to get an actual eight hours sleep, to curb the deliriumbut I slept straight to this evening! I think I needed it. The last few days were starting to meld together and spectral crows and voodoo chants were taking on far more reality thanreality. Im pretty sure my toe is brokenbut I honestly dont remember how...
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terrakotta:
YAY!!!! Take pictures!!!!
I'm reading Antigone with my students now and plan to dress up as her for school for Halloween. Make sure you file those fingernails down for the self-blinding scene
I'm reading Antigone with my students now and plan to dress up as her for school for Halloween. Make sure you file those fingernails down for the self-blinding scene
ladymaze:
Yay, Wounded Foot! I sure hope your moms is hot.
Yeah. If you fell asleep for so long, then you definitely needed it. It happens to me sometimes...I push myself too hard, lay down for a nap, and wake up the next day. Hah!
Yeah. If you fell asleep for so long, then you definitely needed it. It happens to me sometimes...I push myself too hard, lay down for a nap, and wake up the next day. Hah!
A letter to my advisor, regarding deadlines and my epic poem...
Hello Nancy,
Sorry you havent heard from me in a while. Ive been very incognito, very much swimming in this book, and very, very much at its mercy. The courtship took a long time, lots of dancing around it, research, playing, experimenting, trying to make it mine. I have definitely broken the barrier and...
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terrakotta:
Dear Joshua:
First of all, lay off the caffeine already. Even Coleridge took a break from the opium every once in a while. You must start sleeping at normal hours!
Second of all, you rock. Not just because you are a gifted writer, but because you sent me this letter hand-written, which means I can get a hefty price for it when I auction it off at Barney's after you are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. ka-ching!
Love and Rockets,
Nancy
ps: Don't forget to inscribe a special thank you to that chic in Massachusetts in the hardcover edition
First of all, lay off the caffeine already. Even Coleridge took a break from the opium every once in a while. You must start sleeping at normal hours!
Second of all, you rock. Not just because you are a gifted writer, but because you sent me this letter hand-written, which means I can get a hefty price for it when I auction it off at Barney's after you are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. ka-ching!
Love and Rockets,
Nancy
ps: Don't forget to inscribe a special thank you to that chic in Massachusetts in the hardcover edition
ladymaze:
I just read fast. 
I, GODFATHER
I feel a coma coming on.
So Ive given up on trying to catch up on all the posts I had planned on making in the last week and a half. There just isnt time. Im swimming in an epic poem sea and my world is centered on this fallen angeland a voodoo priestessand today I visited a bar owner who was a...
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I feel a coma coming on.
So Ive given up on trying to catch up on all the posts I had planned on making in the last week and a half. There just isnt time. Im swimming in an epic poem sea and my world is centered on this fallen angeland a voodoo priestessand today I visited a bar owner who was a...
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terrakotta:
I was in your shower this morning: you left the hot water running so long that the steam masked my presence
Yes, as a godparent myself, it's kinda neat, although I of course had the conversation in the back of my mind: I am supposed to lead this child down a morally respectable path??? Bah HAHHAA! What kind of karmic joke is this, God?! You get the perks of being a parent without any of the downsides.
You are definitely a writer: you are living and breathing it: be thankful!!!
and don't forget me when you're interviewed in the New Yorker.
Yes, as a godparent myself, it's kinda neat, although I of course had the conversation in the back of my mind: I am supposed to lead this child down a morally respectable path??? Bah HAHHAA! What kind of karmic joke is this, God?! You get the perks of being a parent without any of the downsides.
You are definitely a writer: you are living and breathing it: be thankful!!!
and don't forget me when you're interviewed in the New Yorker. 
dannie:
Thank you..to a good year!
I dont like umbrellas. They are cumbersome, unwieldy, and they keep the rain out of my face.
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kiki_michelle:
its better to be wet
ladymaze:
Damn straight.
But I'm just excited for the movie, really.
But I'm just excited for the movie, really.
I DISCOVERED THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
AND A COKE MACHINE GREW A SOUL
Im very, very tired.
The structure of my epic poem is a mix of poetry and pros. The main chapters, dealing with the main plot, and the spirit world, are in poetic form, as a dialogue between a voodoo priestess and her summoned muse. In between, are short little stories (I...
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AND A COKE MACHINE GREW A SOUL
Im very, very tired.
The structure of my epic poem is a mix of poetry and pros. The main chapters, dealing with the main plot, and the spirit world, are in poetic form, as a dialogue between a voodoo priestess and her summoned muse. In between, are short little stories (I...
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terrakotta:
I find your coke machine experience fascinating, as today in the lounge the soda/water machine performed very strangely. I put my change in, but before I could hit any of the buttons, a ginger ale popped out. I was actually trying to buy a water and started to question my short term memory for a moment there: DID I hit a button? A person standing nearby said, "Oh, you got a ginger ale!" and laughed. I looked over to the nearby counter and saw that people had been leaving their mistaken ginger ales all morning: there were 5 or 6 unopened cans on the counter. For some unknown reason, the machine had been spitting out ginger ales, and only ginger ales, all day; sometimes without even receiving the correct change. We are now referring to it as the Twilight Zone machine. They do say hell is repetition! If your coke machine displayed morality, my machine should be tracked by the FBI as a possible serial killer.
ladymaze:
Mwahahaha! Too sloooow!
Update timebefore I dream
Last week, it was my turn to read some of my work in my creative writing class. I got a lot of good commentswhich helped a lot of my writing woes from earlier in that week.
I read the latest draft of the prologue to my epic poem. Im the only grad student in the class (its just a time filler...
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Last week, it was my turn to read some of my work in my creative writing class. I got a lot of good commentswhich helped a lot of my writing woes from earlier in that week.
I read the latest draft of the prologue to my epic poem. Im the only grad student in the class (its just a time filler...
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kiki_michelle:
yeah.. its not every night that i get that spoiled..
supernova72:
now that sounds like a totally fun time....
congratulations on the great comments about your writing!
and the braille comment.... CLASSIC.
congratulations on the great comments about your writing!
and the braille comment.... CLASSIC.