Rewriting fiction

OK, I’ve been slacking off the posting lately, and it has to stop. Things at work have been stressful on the one hand, and boring on the other. Stressful because people are being let go and my department tends to get hit pretty hard when the company is doing badly. Boring because at least half [...]

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Weekday roundup

A ridiculously easy week this week.  It’s only a 3-day week, because of yet another obscure Catholic holiday on Thursday (corpus christi.  Can someone explain to me what we are celebrating here?).  Plus,  Berlitz doesn’t have much work for me at the moment and my BLC classes are taking it easy to, so I don’t [...]

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Same ol’ same ol’

Well, few more days of vacation have passed, and little has happened. Had some folks over to the farm, we made hot dogs, and smores and drank lots of beer. Good times, good times. Today, Mama, Mumama and I went shopping at the new outlet mall, St. Louis Mills. It is really damn big. We [...]

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My review of Animal Farm

I saw that the English Dept. here has a whole set of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, unabridged. So I borrowed a copy, since that’s one of those books that I feel like I should have read in high school. I just finished, although I should have been asleep, and here are my thoughts: Throughout the [...]

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Book review

i’ve been zipping through books like mad recently, so i thought i’d review some of them. 1. hiob- joseph roth. a retelling of the story of job, with some russian jews who move to new york. its not a bad read, and it is written very well, and it retells job’s suffering fantastically, if unbelievably, [...]

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