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Jun
2007
Happy.
I am happy.
Kameron Hurley
“No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.”
- Rabbi Sofer
Archive for June, 2007
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2007
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Jun
2007
Netflix is Here!
One of the things I decided to do to cut down on the cost of going out to shows is… umm… to get Netflix instead :0
One of the things I miss most about life in Chicago is sitting around on the couch with on the weekends eating pancakes and watching our Netflix shows. We’d just started watching “Rome” when I left, and I’d like to watch the rest of it.
The first couple weeks are free, and complementing this weekend’s pancakes will be…
Children of Men!
And for tonight’s workout, I’ll watch the next episode of Rome…
Most excellent.
25
Jun
2007
Oh Dear…
I think I’m writing about my first non-dysfunctional couple!
How quaint!
And holy crap! I don’t think I have any idea how to do this!
25
Jun
2007
The Origins of "OK"
“For instance, a lot of kids online spell “cool,” “k-e-w-l,” says McKean, senior editor for U.S. dictionaries at Oxford Press. “They know how to spell cool, but it just looks cooler to spell it “k-e-w-l.”
It was cool in certain East Coast cities in the mid-19th century to substitute OK for “all correct.” McKean says it was common for people of that day to use inside lingo — shorthand full of puns, purposeful misspellings and abbreviations. For example, they’d use “SP” for “small potatoes,” or “TBFTB” for “too big for their britches.”
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Jun
2007
25
Jun
2007
What Price
I guess you’re worth more before you’re born into sin.
Being a woman is like being 3/4 of a real person. I mean, a potential person.
We’re not worth much.
25
Jun
2007
25
Jun
2007
Holding Back the Desert
I spent an inordinate amount of time last night just before bed tossing and turning and playing out in my head the scene in Black Desert that finally made the whole thing fall together for me. It’s a brutal little book, meaner than the last one but with more heart (you know, compared to the last one, not compared to any other book; feel-good movie of the week, it ain’t). I found a lot of stuff I want to deal with in this book; the emotional core of the story, and immediately after that, about 80% of the plot-that-wasn’t-there.
Turns out this means I need to go back and severely rewrite the first 200 pages that I’ve got before I can push through, but at least I have a proper roadmap now. I was sort of winging it there for awhile.
I mean, not that I’m not winging it (I’m *always* winging it), but it’s starting to look real juicy.
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