Category 2000-2011

Today was my first day doing my prose and newly deemed “short fiction” seminar, a kind of introduction to the style if you will. The lack of rules makes me happy since we can all see that I am not… Continue Reading →

I had one of those weekends that you never forget. I have been running through it over and over again in my head–starting from Friday night where one of my best friends got married. A beautiful ceremony with a beautiful… Continue Reading →

An amoeba found in lakes that can eat your brain by attaching itself to your olfactory nerve. I am not kidding, this is a real thing. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21034344/from/ET/ The brown gun, a weapon so intense that it can leave its victims… Continue Reading →

I am doing an essay on Monster Culture…which was decidedly the most difficult of the three I had to choose from, not only from the class perspective but admittedly the opinion of the professor as well. That’s ok–it was the… Continue Reading →

I try to be clever with my titles. Most of them end up being strange puns of one sort or another. This weekend was good fun…I was able to let loose a bit since school is still in the manageable… Continue Reading →

I was going to re-post my 9/11 thing, as I have done every year for the past 6…but I decided not to this time. I have to tag it into my memories, but my predictability is annoying, even to me…. Continue Reading →

So today was orientation. And I am feeling a little less excited about going, or at least for the past few hours I have felt like this. I feel like an imposter, like I am hiding some crazy secret and… Continue Reading →

I cannot wait for the next few months to come barreling in…Fall has a special place in the dark and sometimes embarrassing corners of my memory. I was not ever a “cool” girl at school..and no matter how good I… Continue Reading →

I did eat one last night, the one ice cream treat I allotted myself over the weekend aside from the lone corona I ingested last night, a toast of my own celebration. I have a huge craving for chocolate and… Continue Reading →

I have been saying for years that I would put up my own website… Unfortunately there is always something that happens before that can be done, be it surgery, work or time-draining activities. This Fall it will be a little… Continue Reading →