A Bit O' Homework ...

Yes, delightful HOMEWORK.
Which, I guess I've decided to mix in with my regular blog. Though I don't blog much, so maybe that's why I made such a decision, still not sure if I wanna do that ...

I do too much stream of consciounessmuchnonsense with writing/typing ...

Anyhoo, the homework part. The site that comes to mind is a site I found by googling my undergrad thesis prof's name, Susan Straight. Turns out she had a story published in www.Salon.com. I read it, then read the other stories on that site. I hadn't returned to it for awhile, but it's stuck in my mind as a good one because it lead me to Gloria Steinem and her essays. Looking further, I became interested with her interview with Hugh Hefner (btw, I have never been able to get a hold of that entire interview). I guess I should add that I was watching Girls Next Door at the time ... I don't watch it anymore.

I must admit that I haven't ventured too many other places to find creative narrative online. It still strikes me as weird to type online and look up published stories, too. Though it is a bunch cheaper, and I always got cheap on the mind. Still, something about holding the paper ...

Umm, yeah. So, another place I found was www.neilgaiman.com.

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Okay!! I didn't "find" him, but everyone should know him! Can't he count as a creative narrative? I mean, it's Neil Gaiman and he posts lots of stuff: pictures, videos, links to other sites. It's a narrative of his life and he's obviously creative.

Wow, I'm trying to overstep my homework bounds. And it's late for me. Or at least I'm this tired on a Saturday night.

I'm going to sleep before I realize how sad that sounds.

And I will have to come back to fix my links up right. How can I not know how to show links? ...

Weather

So I remember what I was going to talk about last time: the WEATHER!
Yeah, I know. Thrilling.
But this recently relocated Californian Girl is affected by this weather. I will admit that when my studio apartment didn't heat up after a half hour, I was worried about me and my doggy keeping warm. And when it started snowing, and kept snowing, I kinda freaked out.

My Tuesday night class was canceled, and I haven't had class canceled since I was in elementary school and the Santa Ana winds proved too rough for us Cali kids. I ventured out on Wednesday morning to the UB. I had work, by golly!
A skiddish iceland met me, nothing I had ever encountered before. My boots did nothing to that damn slick ice.
But those icicles on plants and tree limbs, though, that really got me. To see plants encased in clear solid water and to hear ice slam against pavement from a few floors up ... Yeah, you don't see that in Cali.

Hey There!

Okay, so I waited eight months before blogging again this time. I've been living in Baltimore since mid-August. I've had my ups and downs, obviously. In an odd twist, I keep finding that history keeps repeats itself, some of it good but a lot bad.

Here's to making it good again.

One strange recurrence that I will write about -


I started this blog on Monday the 26th and now I don't remember what I was gonna say. So I'll start anew.

Finish what I start, damn it!

If I remember what I was gonna write, I'll come back to it.