Monthly Archives: January 2005

REALITY: Patience/Impatience

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

Contrary to Ronni’s feelings that we choose to slow down as we get wiser and older, I find myself having developed a sense of urgency about a lot of things. At the same time as I’ve mellowed about dust and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Health Alert

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

As a onetime volunteer ambulance driver and EMT, I can’t tell you how happy I am to have come across this article about using USB drives just as Medic Alert bracelets giving medical information.  Once in charge of a blood … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Simile & Personification

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

Was thinking this morning about writing elements, and in particular, about my own cockamamie way of using simile in conjunction with personification. For example, in a recent poem about the wind, I compared it to a gypsy juggler.  Most people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Memories

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

As I put away all the things of Christmas, and of the year past as well, I come across two little figures of a snowman and snowwoman, smiling, dressed in gay green and red scarves and little more.  This is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Technology-driven

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

Time to admit I have a problem.  I live for my computer. While my winters are usually spent in a semi-hibernative mode, rousing when driven by need before snuggling back into a stupor on the couch at all odd hours … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Silent Hill 2

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

Good grief.   Relative to the post below re the mature worker and working (playing) at New Media, I’m getting all the self-fulfillment and heart-pounding exercise I need. Can’t believe I’m so hooked on this thing to the exclusion of everything … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Its prospects for the older writer?

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

One thing I have noticed in the past year of blogging, is that one of the more common reasons for closing weblogs is the feeling that one has run out of things to say. Now this is probably more true … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Shower Thoughts

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

Tried to recapture that old creative feeling in the shower this a.m., where thoughts, it seems, are caught within each droplet joining into wet sheets of warmth that run from head to toe and spark up all the senses. My … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Morning

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

Black mornings promise everything, if the eyes can be believed.  Well hell, there may be lilacs blooming out there now.  But the air smells of snow, and the quietness speaks of change, and as I pull my robe around me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Physical Interaction

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Susan

Besides the use of a mouse or keyboard versus flipping pages in a book, and relevant to Silent Hill 2, I’ve adjusted to learning different finger maneuvers (not just the usual ones I use when I’m upset).  I can make … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Silent Hill 2

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Susan

Okay, so I’m not the best video game player in the world; but I am now a first rate cold-blooded killer.  And, a game addict.  Figured I’d better admit that right up front, although I’m sure you’ve noticed all the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: (Don’t know yet)

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Susan

Clever is as clever doesand clever never really wasreliable,in estimation of itself. Jared’s single thought as he fell swirling down the hot red tunnel was that he should perhaps have done a bit more research in his life, given more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Life as a Popsicle

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Susan

This thought has been swimming in my brain a while, put off for seeking eloquence, a better way of saying it, and yet if this be my last year (or the next one, or the next), time is of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Silent Hill 2

Posted on January 3, 2005 by Susan

Progress made at last, with the needed help from Steve to remind me to go back to my Interactive Fiction training to a) keep checking Inventory–often finding I’ve picked up items along the way that were vital to the story … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Much Betterer

Posted on January 3, 2005 by Susan

My mood has improved with the discovery of a key that got me finally off the streets of Silent Hill and into a new area to explore, and a prime rib roast dinner with Yorkshire Pudding I made tonight. Ah, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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