Talking to my mama the other night and she asked if the road construction outside our house was done yet. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So here’s three thousand words worth:
Or to answer in three words, “No, not yet.”
In addition to retooling the website, I’m also slushing at [...]
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I’ve spent the morning reading essays from the following:
Narrative Con/Texts in Dubliners
Names and Naming in Joyce
ReJoycing: New Readings of Dubliners
James Joyce: The Augmented Ninth
European Joyce Studies 7
James Joyce’s Dubliners:Critical Essays
James Joyce’s Dubliners:A Critical Handbook
Critical Essays on James Joyce
James Joyce: New Perspectives
James Joyce: A Study of the Short Fiction
James Joyce & the Craft of [...]
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I’ve been slacking on my Spanish for a week or so since I’ve been overloaded with school and lately I’ve been feeling like the language is slipping away from me. But then yesterday I had two separate events that made me perk up. One was overhearing a group of Hispanics in a store [...]
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I finished both The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler in the last 48 hours. I enjoyed them both, I would recommend both, but I had problems with both.
I’ve read some interesting criticism of cyberpunk in general and Neuromancer in particular, and [...]
But first.
Another weekend gone by, and another refereeing debacle in a big game. Not sure how John Obi Mikel earned a straight red for a not-so-bad tackle, a decision which completely tipped the game in favor of Man Ure over the Russians. Sad that such a big fixture is marred by [...]
Is Rafa Benitez mad? Or does he just not want to win the Premier League? Why he doesn’t field an understrength team against European minnows in the more-forgiving Champions League as opposed to the intensely more competitive every-game-counts Premier League, I don’t know. Liverpool are in decent form. Why tinker?
Did [...]
I went to the doctor to get a physical this week and, after we’d run through my history, she said “Well, the good news is you’re a hung man.”
She quickly corrected herself by saying, “you’re a healthy young man,” but I like to think it was a Freudian slip.
Current Mood: Fine |
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Ah, a little room to breathe—for a week. My poetry class doesn’t meet this week so that gives me some rumination time, but I think I’ll enjoy this class. My professor expressed surprise that my poem “Witness at Xecul” was my first attempt ever, saying it was really quite good for [...]