Author Archives: Susan

BLOGGING: Links

Posted on December 3, 2003 by Susan

I’ve spent more time than perhaps I should on blogging lately, but there’s just so much out there that it takes a long, long time to sift through, and as in the internet ads on TV, I may yet reach … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Using Tools

Posted on December 3, 2003 by Susan

There is a post on Garmhos that refers to the lackadaisical trend in writing in e-mail and blogs. I was caught in one myself grammatically in a comment to Jerz’s Literacy Log and am made more aware now of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: And Reading

Posted on December 3, 2003 by Susan

For a good part of my writing life (since about age 8 to now, but with sabbaticals of years in between) I have read even more voraciously and consistently. And sadly, for many years in my most creative and driven … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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PEOPLE: Interaction

Posted on December 2, 2003 by Susan

A rather odd thing happened this morning on campus, and as is usually the case, I ended up feeling guilty for not having followed my gut and acted. As I came out of one of the buildings just before class … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Mood

Posted on December 2, 2003 by Susan

It’s a happy, sappy, bouncy, flouncy day! Absolutely everything is going to go well today, I’m sure of it: Starting with a birthday breakfast for my neighbor and friend; then on to a stimulating Contemporary Fiction class; from there to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Test Results

Posted on December 2, 2003 by Susan

Well all right then, I’ll share my results with you if you at least take some of the tests I’ve listed in previous posts and give some feedback on your own neurosis. I’m an ISTP according to Myers-Briggs; an Avoidant, … Continue reading →

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WRITING: Prolifically

Posted on December 2, 2003 by Susan

In a recent discussion elsewhere on the internet, a poet proclaimed that her English Professor had described her work as prolific, a word often used to describe a writer and his work. This was after defending her right to post … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Jobs

Posted on December 2, 2003 by Susan

Being one week mentally late in preparing for the busiest season of my work, I’m planning ahead now and have assured myself that the frameshop is well supplied with Band-Aids. Normally by Christmas Day I am wearing three to four … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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PEOPLE: Personality Tests

Posted on December 1, 2003 by Susan

I love taking this kind of test, I’m just not forthgiving with the results. At 4degreez.com, you’ll find a test that Brit Lit students would love, giving the ability to predict where one would place in Dante’s Inferno based upon … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Punctuation

Posted on December 1, 2003 by Susan

I am outright stealing a post from Jerz’s Literacy Log because it is a subject near and dear to my heart, the semicolon. Here then, from The Telegraph, is Oliver Pritchett’s Review of Lynne Truss’ book, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Natural Demands

Posted on December 1, 2003 by Susan

Uh-oh. A morning walk confirmed my worst fears. I have lost sight of the row of twenty-something tiny 4″peach trees I so carefully moved around in the garden into a row in Spring. Without their leaves, I cannot find them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Short Stories

Posted on December 1, 2003 by Susan

Although it seems I don’t have much time to read anymore, I have found through a Contemporary Fiction course that the short story is an excellent way for me to keep up. Until two years ago, I never really bothered … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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PEOPLE: Self Realization

Posted on December 1, 2003 by Susan

In the back of my head there is still the questionnaire I helped my niece with for her Psychology paper. I would like to ask myself similar questions about myself, or even follow her lead and send it out to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Dreams

Posted on November 30, 2003 by Susan

I just spent the last hour and a half running around a large campus trying to find where I’d left my coat and blanket, and trying to buy a pack of cigarettes. Missed most of a class because we’d switched … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Semester Breaks

Posted on November 30, 2003 by Susan

The Great Lettuce Head wonders if students at least make an attempt to maintain ongoing study or at least retain what is learned from one semester to another, or even during breaks such as this Thanksgiving holiday. Actually, even the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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