October 2010
5 posts
Hello, abandoned blog.
I haven’t totally given up on you (just mostly). The darling Joshua Love and I are trying something new. Short Stories with Often Tragic Endings.
Maybe you’ll like it.
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September 2010
25 posts
Oh hi, Tuesday, I must say, you were pretty strange all morning, and you’ve definitely put me in a strange mood. Granted, Tuesday, it may not be entirely your fault, but probably is. I woke up from a bizarre and awkward dream (and no, I won’t tell you what—that’s how bizarre and awkward it was—sorry), which I guess we can blame partly on Monday. Then, I stumble, in confusion about my dream, only...
How many exclamation points are acceptable in a work-related email? Does it depend on how excited!!! you are [pretending to be]? Is it just one, because that’s technically correct? Are they too informal? Can we use any at all?
And what about the quesclamation mark?! Is that even real‽
Or for emphasis (!) or sarcasm (!) ?
When I say “Good afternoon, So-and-so!” I find just one! punctuation...
“He was experiencing a terrible sense of disorder that affected his whole being....”
– Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via dostoyevsky)
August 2010
41 posts
“She was not lying. She was one of those rare souls who don’t distinguish...”
– can’t remember for the life of me where this is from; i found it saved in my phone. also, love it.
Watchthe maxwell children debut their new acting careers.
College Writing Class Assignments with Real World...
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1. Write a text message to a girl apologizing for the series of drunken text messages you sent her at 2 a.m. last night, which were just poorly composed requests for her to come over.
2. Write a justification for taking time off from work and school to “figure out what it is you really want to do.”
3. Write an obituary for a family member who was by all accounts an...
“But if one looks at men in all ways—are there many good ones left?”
– Razumihin, from “Crime and Punishment” (via dostoyevsky)
“For he who follows every shade,
Carries the memory in his breast,
Of each...”
– Charles Baudelaire, “The Owls”
Novel ideas?
I’m trying to decide on a new book to read. So I found a list of books that the interwebs think I should read, eliminated the ones that I have read, or that I haven’t read but already own, and ended up with this little list: Lady Chatterly’s Lover Ulysses A Room with a View Subterraneans Vile Bodies The Invisible Man Therese Raquin
Actually, let’s leave off Ulysses. We all know I won’t actually...