Oh my. Also, I should be reading Wiscon-appropriate material, yet here I am, frantically devouring Gone With the Wind… what’s the change, you may ask, as I’ve been trying to hammer through this book for months? Well, I finally got to the Seige of Atlanta. It is great.
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I had a wicked craving for a quesadilla or pancakes at 10pm tonight. Man, that sounded uber-tasty. But you know, I’m working on staying in my clothes cause you know, clothes are expensive, and sweet fuck I just had to buy two pairs of size 18 – 18!!! – trousers for job interviews. So I
“Only a species under threat would reproduce this way.” Well, then. That does give me some ideas for a few SF novels…
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CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19)Drinking style: Capricorn is usually described as practical, steadfast, money-hungry and status-thirsty — no wonder they get left off the astrological cocktail-party list. But this is the sign of David Bowie and Annie Lennox, not to mention Elvis. Capricorn is the true rock star: independent, powerful and seriously charismatic, not
As of today, I’ve gotten at least four calls for temp jobs that would take place over Wiscon weekend (the one I was called in for today would start… tomorrow. I have a 2:30 flight to Madison tomorrow). Blast. But hey, once I’m back from Wiscon, I’ve got nowhere to be until September. Then maybe
I liked living in Chicago. I liked feeling young and hip and successful. I liked my shiny shoes and my corporate card. I liked having money. And spending it. I didn’t like worrying about how I was holding myself when I was walking home at night, being worried about coming home a little tipsy, hauling
I’ll just need to write a lot on the plane…
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At age 27: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. dropped out from his job at General Electric to become a full-time writer. Henry David Thoreau went off for two years to live alone in a cabin at Walden Pond. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. Memphis millionaire Frederic W. Smith, whose father built the Greyhound
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