Well, other than an official grade change form — one of those grade-change requests was actually valid! — and handing in some official forms, I’m done with my work for the semester! I’ll be handing in the last of my paperwork tomorrow, including gradesheets and attendance forms, paperwork to collect my pension money from...
Read more →Two of my friends and fellow grads of Clarion West 2006 — Maura McHugh and Caroline Yoachim — have stories on the poll for best stories published in 2007 by Fantasy Magazine. Are you a reader? Go vote!
Read more →Happy new year, everyone! We had ice cream cake, pasta, and wine last night. We watched, oh, it must have been about the last half of season 2 of Carnivale today. It’s been relaxed and fun, especially aftar all the frantic scurrying of the last week or so. Tomorrow, I am back to scurrying:...
Read more →In 2007 I read the following books: Code: italics = reread asterisk = new (to me) author (*) bold = my favorites this year exclamation mark = !unfinished strikethrough = never finished, never will Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang (*) The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War...
Read more →People have commented that my discussions of recent listenings, viewings, and readings all bundled together in a single post make for unwieldly linkage, so I’m just going to go on about books here — partly also because November was so busy I watched very little anyway, and will review what I have seen at...
Read more →I remember this story fondly! That afternoon in Seattle, reading it over and thinking, “Hey, this is weird…” … in a good way. It’s dark, but sweet, like a chocolate that you never had yourself as a kid, but probably will appreciate more for having waited till adulthood to taste. Eh? Anyway, my classmate...
Read more →It strikes me why Korean profs so often get their grades into the computer system so quickly. Yes, now, after so many years here… My grades went into the computer system at the Uni only a little more than 24 hours ago, and already, my email inbox is bursting with pleas. Last night —...
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