Hello to BFBers!
Cat just dropped me a line to let me know that she told the good folks from Big Fat Blog that I’ll be blogging all about Fat this year; lo’ and behold, they’ve posted about my little shtick.
I suppose this is as good a time as any to plug my campaign this year: I’m blogging […]
Panache my ass.
I’ve reached the Project-Blog portion of Colleen’s weblog, where she says “this 24 hour thing is going to be a piece of cake!” It was her first blog marathon (Project Blog, last year), and it got me to thinking about my “success” in 2002, my second year in Blogathon.
I remember at the end of the […]
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Labor of Love
In one of our many server moves, Colleen’s installation of MT went wonky and died, leaving her with just a static archive of all of her posts from February of ‘04. We never had the ambition to convert them when we migrated servers most recently and installed Wordpress last year, so they’ve just been sitting […]
Inspiration
One of my favorite parts about Summer Literary Seminars was getting the chance to hear so many amazing authors read their work. Among my favorites was John Dufresne, who read from his collection of short stories Johnny Too Bad.
Aside from having a great sense of humor, his writing was really fresh, and engaging in a […]
The Absurdists
The more I think about my trip, the more I find myself thinking about the really amazing wonderful things and being able to overlook the rough or unpleasant parts. Yay.
One of the most surprising results of the program for me was how it revitalized my love of Russian literature and threw me back to my […]
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Saint Petersburg
Saturday night, a little before 9pm, my plane landed from Saint Petersburg by way of Paris. I had never been happier to be in New York City, and I have a feeling I never will again.
I went to Saint Petersburg on the 25th with a group of 4 students (myself included) and a professor from […]
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The Saga Continues
Ah, behold, the elusive second post.
So yes, Blogathon stuff has been… challenging. Without going into too much detail, it looks as though staff stuff is shifting behind scenes, causing a little turbulence. Fortunately, it turns out that on my Livejournal friends list were the most wonderful fabulous people in existence, Amy of Ywing.net and […]
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The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
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