Author Archives: Susan

NEW MEDIA: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Posted on April 24, 2005 by Susan

Standing ironing watching tv.  Reference to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Saw it back then at the midnight showing, audience prepared with all the props.  Did we break through the, what is it, the fourth wall–is that the term?  Saw … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Perspective

Posted on April 24, 2005 by Susan

Today I look at clouds and see clouds.  And I notice I am no longer hungry. Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: An Outside Opinion

Posted on April 24, 2005 by Susan

Lean and mean after two days of barely eating, I’m working myself up into a diatribe on education and the older student in particular.  The worlds within and without the encompassing campus.  Reality and not. Perhaps though, if I really, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Literary Journals

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Susan

All the signs lately are leading me away from the crooked path I’m walking. The Spring issue of Ploughshares came today.  There are 8 short stories, (6 fiction, 2 non-fiction) and 60, yes, 60 poems. Of the short stories, two … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION & LITERATURE: In a Struggle

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Susan

Truly, I’m sure it’s a great book, but I absolutely hate "Goodbye to All That" by Robert Graves.  It’s ponderously slow, people are dying all over the place and Graves doesn’t seem affected–which is a damned shame because that’s what … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Crossroads

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Susan

A touch of food poisoning most likely.  The last time that we went there I left him sitting at the table and stood outside.  We laughed when we went in, remembering almost fifteen years ago.  We’ve gone elsewhere for Mexican … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Knowing

Posted on April 22, 2005 by Susan

I need to retreat back to my morning bed.  The day is beating me physically with illness, emotionally with rejection, psychologically with doubt.  I need to hide from words just as cold winds.  Either does me damage now, low and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Mornings Gone

Posted on April 22, 2005 by Susan

Cool today, both I and breaking day.  I think I have sucked everything out of mornings here, left nothing to inspire. I close the back door and go inside, murmuring absently as I move away.  I have been here, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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SELF ANALYSIS: Space

Posted on April 21, 2005 by Susan

It just dawned on me, and confirms what I’ve come to diagnosis myself as:  Spatially Impaired and Directionally Dysfunctional.  And, I’ve noticed this because of some writing quirks (flaws, really) that I hold true to.  (besides dangling participles) I have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Playing With Food and Nature

Posted on April 20, 2005 by Susan

Do kids still lick Cheerios and stick them together to make cars and crosses and little people?  Or Puffed Rice and stick them to their teeth?  Do they wet an m&m on their tongue to paint their lips?  The red … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Applications

Posted on April 19, 2005 by Susan

Damn.  Just last month when I was busy playing "I’m a writer!" was when I should have instead been stuffing those envelopes with applications for the Fall semester.  I can possibly still get into Central, but I’ve got to spend … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Coolers

Posted on April 19, 2005 by Susan

Ask and it shall be given to ye… Just posted yesterday about a method of cooling laps from laptop heat and gaining the bonus of cooling the laptop as well, and guess what I get in today’s e-mail notice from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Mine Own Worst Enemy

Posted on April 18, 2005 by Susan

As always, procrastination is a tool to sabotage my plans.  Too late to register for the upcoming Fall semester at Wesleyan.  Not the best day going, nor the worst, freeing me to make much more of little things.  An emotional … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: The Gimmick

Posted on April 17, 2005 by Susan

Am admittedly not as up on technology as I once was when building computers, but I don’t think there is–and if not, there should be–a cooling system for laps when using laptops.  What was cozily acceptable in winter, I can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Sophocles Now

Posted on April 17, 2005 by Susan

From Point to Point, news that brings me temporarily out of hiding:  The Oxyrhynchus Papyri being read.  While not as stimulating perhaps as Willie, certainly exciting and heartening news as literature of the past is read for the first time.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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