I’ve been feeling a bit detached from reality lately. Especially when i go to Riverside. This feeling begins not as soon as I step onto the train but when I step off the shuttle bus and in to the school. It’s such a weird feeling, I don’t know if any one who is reading this [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 23, 2008
so far there’s only 21 pgs
I’ve only made nine pages of progress this past week. Isn’t that awful? I need to have at least ten pages by Tuesday. Gayle went out of town right after class and so she said I don’t have to write one for this week but because of that I want to have at least ten [...]
October 14, 2008
it is done… the thesis is on!
Yup! I am so excited!
Gayle told me over the weekend that her editor hasn’t gotten back to her but after thinking it over she decided to take me under her wing after all. Woo hoo! I’m extatic and scared at the same time. Nervous-scared because I hope I’m able to do about 50-60 pages worth [...]
October 9, 2008
i’m still waiting while my baby crawls
Yeah, Andres is already crawling, well he’s been crawling and now he’s grabbing onto places and pulling himself up and lets himself go and falls on his tiny big butt. I need to start video taping him more. There’s so much I haven’t done to keep those memories phisically there. Need pictures and videos! I [...]
October 7, 2008
a writing prompt
Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinting into a tin bucket.
-From “Thirteen Writing Prompts” by Dan Wiencek in McSweeney’s website.
All the other ones are just as crazy as this one and some even more. You guys should check [...]
