2008-11-02, 10:33 a.m.: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"? Really? Because I think that is a really terrible book, and I'm actually a Hemingway aficionado. Two more days till the election. The Obama people have come by the house four times and called four times. I laud them. Still they should have better record-keeping and not double back over territory they've already covered. Halloween, work, masterminding the house, violin (this is a long story, but the outcome is that now I am taking Suzuki violin lessons), a writing/workshop group to look forward to, my application for CU Boulder's MA/PhD program nearly finished, the GRE to take again (this time with so-called analytical writing section). School, preschool, reading "The Watchmen" and "The Master of Go" and "The Sound of the Mountain" and obsessed with "Spring Awakening" (the musical). I always adored Frank Wedekind back in the day, and by that I mean undergrad. His short stories. NFL football - both our teams are winning. And in three weeks we go on a trip through the entire Panama Canal. To miss Thanksgiving on purpose. It's been a balmy fall. The aspens lasted all golden and Galadriel-like for weeks and weeks. Then one morning waking up to snowfall on aspen leaves and branches. We are still waiting for the first real snows. 1 comments
2008-10-25, 2:13 a.m.: "Writing well consists of continually chipping away at grammar, at established usage, at the linguistic rules currently in force. It is a constant act of rebellion against one's social environment; it is a subversion." --José Ortega y Gasset, "Misería y esplendor de la traducción" 0 comments
2008-09-04, 8:07 p.m.: Got tickets to go see and hear Neil Gaiman on October 7 in Boulder. 0 comments
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