Monthly Archives: November 2008

More Positives

11/30/2008 – 10:03 pm

I’m tired, unmotivated, and the weather folks have predicted a decent amount of accumulated snow, which should mean an interesting commute. It’s amazing how none of this seems to matter when Google Alerts sends you a couple of positive reviews for my story “The Hodag” currently appearing in Black Static #7. The Fix review says [...]

By Trent | Posted in Writing | Comments (0)

Topsy Turvy

11/30/2008 – 7:57 pm

I watched Chelski vs. Arsn*al today and it was a fantastic game. After thinking about it and determining that there was no way both teams could lose, I was pulling for a draw since that would harm them both almost equally. I figured if Chelski won then it would be yet another loss for the [...]

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Footie – Session 4

11/26/2008 – 4:58 pm

Recap: Another day with a slightly short turn out, with about 27 guys and 1 woman for most of the afternoon, meaning two fields with one sub per team. My team was pretty good but it was an unbalanced game—we pummeled the other team and probably should have switched a few players to make it [...]

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More Laughing and Becoming a Bigger Fan

11/23/2008 – 1:06 pm

A big middle finger to all of the Ars*nal fans out there who have been yapping since the Man Ure win while remaining completely oblivious to their team’s very obvious flaws. Getting spanked by City 3-0? Your captain suspended for the game for his outburst? Hilarious. Ten points off the title race at this stage [...]

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Finding Time to Laugh

11/21/2008 – 9:50 am

I was googling around for an image of a maze I could use for an upcoming project when I stumbled on this page with a bunch of JPGs and animated GIFs. Even though some of them are definitely off-color (and a lot just aren’t that funny) it’s a quantity over quality issue here and I [...]

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Footie – Session 3

11/19/2008 – 3:48 pm

Recap: The number of guys fluctuated today, starting with twelve but soon swelled to the dreaded twenty-four, which meant two simultaneous games (four teams, six-a-side) with no subs. It topped out at twenty-eight (one sub per team) but that didn’t last that long. Health Report: Good. Ankles held up well but the big problem today [...]

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Not A Fall Guy

11/18/2008 – 1:59 pm

We were asked to watch Tarsem Singh’s The Fall for one of my classes and I have to say I was pretty disappointed with it. First off, I don’t think it does much new as a nested story of a hospital patient telling a story to a little girl and (predictably?) the story changes in [...]

By Trent | Posted in Movies/TV | Comments (2)

Four Weeks and Counting

11/16/2008 – 10:57 pm

This site gets severely neglected in crunch times, and it’s crunch time. I was freaking out earlier about how I was going to get everything done by the end of the semester (Dec. 12 or so) but after mapping it all out I think I’ll be good to go. I realized today that a slow, [...]

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Footie – Session 2

11/12/2008 – 3:46 pm

Recap: A sparser showing today, two teams with about three subs each. Teams were generally equal in talent, although the opposing side had two college-aged guys that really helped carry their team. Health Report: Fine. My ankle is sore from more from the brace I’m wearing, and man are my muscles sore but no kicks, [...]

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Writing? What’s That?

11/10/2008 – 10:52 am

/ Ironic as it may be, being in a graduate writing program and actually writing seem to be antithetical. Looking at my submission stats for 2008 I discovered that they’re way, way down: 26 subs for the year, down from a career-high 51 in 2007 and 39 in 2006. Worse, it’s really the same batch [...]

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