Author: Don

• 23:10 Sure it was cheese, but I didn’t mind the end to #LifeOnMars (US) that much. #
• 08:27 Unfair: adj. Sunny day off work that I’m spending on campus to attend section & office hrs to prep for midterm T-minus 11hrs from now. Bleh. #
• 08:38 Odyssey Workshop graduates discuss strong openings (novels and stories) odysseyworkshop.livejournal.com/6949.html #
• 10:22 Want to read: The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash … by Tara L. Masih – tinyurl.com/ckdypq #
• 10:33 Breaktime’s over. Crunchtime. Like Alec Baldwin said in GLENGARRY, "It’s f**k or walk!" #
• 10:33 Study playlist: TORCH: A SIX DEGREES COLLECTION OF MODERN TORCH SONGS #
• 11:24 SyllabusFail! I’ll never understand why a problem set needs to be due the day *after* a midterm! Feel like I’m spending too much time on it. #
• 12:13 T-minus 7.25 hrs to midterm. I’m confident that all the necessary info is in my head. Just need to organize it, now. #
• 12:38 Hard to study when there’s some sort of angry protest going on outside the building I’m in. #
• 13:11 Going home for lunch and break. Probably won’t need to come back for prof’s office hrs, in which case, I’ve got *plenty* of time to midterm. #
• 14:18 Walks from bus stops = walks in the sun, so I can’t complain too much. Studying will resume once leftovers are consumed. #
• 15:43 T-minus 3.75 hours to midterm. Knocking on every piece of wood I can find :). #
• 16:02 Gonna head back to campus, hole up with a cup of coffee, and review before Zero Hour! #
• 18:26 Studying over. Screwing off for the next hour, and then it’s showtime!! #
• 21:51 Totally punch drunk from the midterm. Definitely didn’t get an A, but I think I did a’ight. Treating myself to diner food as a reward. #
• 22:41 RT @charlesatan Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem on “I want to write, but life gets in the way.” tinyurl.com/cmjap9 #

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• 08:06 My skoolbooks have swallowed my soul!! #
• 08:08 is on page 75 of 256 of Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser. "The Room in the Attic" gets 4* The ending, as a lite … #
• 08:10 If I brought an ending like the one in "The Room in the Attic" to my genre crit group, I’d probably be asked to leave and never return. 😀 #
• 08:14 Study playlist: Tower of Power mix. #
• 09:28 Wonders if April Fool’s Day joke I set up at work b4 I left last night has paid off yet >:) I’m about to find out muahahaha! #
• 10:16 As often happens with such things, my April Fool’s joke worked a little *too* well. Gonna have to dodge some people for the rest of the day. #
• 10:16 Ain’t I a stinker? >:) #
• 13:28 T-minus 1 day to midterm. Then the valkyries can come to take me to Valhalla. #
• 15:20 Ouch! Vengeance was had by the other department. Payback really is a bitch ;). #
• 17:23 I just can’t afford to be this tired right now. #
• 19:36 Guests over for dinner. Too tired to mind. At least there’s food :)! #
• 19:37 Ooh, and wine–might not be conducive to studying. Or, will it? I think I’ll give it a try. #
• 20:46 Study plan: bit of review before and during tonite’s GHOST HUNTERS. Then, break for LIFE ON MARS. Then, more studying until my brain bleeds. #

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• 08:08 Reading Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis – tinyurl.com/ck2b4d #
• 08:09 is on page 59 of 256 of Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser. 2/3 done w/novellette "The Room in the Attic." Creepy … #
• 08:10 Last night was a *bad* slacking night. Have to try to make up for it today. #
• 08:12 Study playlist: ABOUT TIME by Steve Winwood. (Closest thing I’ve got to having any Traffic.) #
• 10:43 RT @warrenellis Just heard from DC that John Cassaday has finished PLANETARY #27. Ravens have left Tower Of London. #
• 11:40 Wondering why, in this town, do folks ask me point blank who I voted for, yet balk at asking me how much my netbook cost?? #
• 12:33 I think I’m hitting a mental roadblock in my studying :(. Amazed how fast confidence can turn to jelly! #
• 12:35 Want to write at lunch, but I know it’d only be to procrastinate. #
• 14:54 Just have to accept that I just can’t grok how to figure out min possible customer surplus due to price ceilings for now, and move on. 🙁 #
• 18:01 Someone, please–snap me out of the 1,000-yard stare! #
• 19:23 Sooo tempted to just bag today, hoping I’ll just pull it together on midterm day (when I’m off from work). Gonna have dinner b4 deciding. #
• 22:02 Damn you, EASTENDERS! I was gonna go to bed early. #

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• 08:17 Finally back on the normal AM schedule! Tired as hell, but that’s normal, too :). #
• 08:18 Unfortunately, skoolwork has to trump processing yesterday’s crit group evisceration. At least until lunch ;). #
• 08:20 Study playlist: Zero 7, Air, dZihan & Kamien #
• 08:53 *facepalm* When a problem that should take 3 min. to solve is going on 40, check your math. You just *might* have screwed it up. #
• 09:38 Graphing the net economic benefit of gov’t subsidies on a market really, really sucks. #
• 10:15 Taking the boss up on generous offer to let me play hookey on midterm day! #
• 11:38 Trying to work from my backup portableapps USB drive is a bitch when it’s a bit outdated 🙁 #
• 13:30 T-minus 3 days to midterm and 2 chapters left to review. Feeling much better prepared this time around. That, or I’m in total denial. 😀 #
• 13:45 Looked over the crit group evisceration of 2 rewritten scenes–actually, it was more of a couple of minor "tsk, tsks." Will post later. #wip #
• 15:14 WTF is my intertubes connection so slow? Conflicker worm started a couple days early? #
• 16:24 Absolutely no clue how I’m going to find the energy for anything after work today. Gotta pull it outta somewhere, tho. #
• 17:09 RT @charlesatan I interview Strange Horizons editor-in-chief Susan Marie Groppi tinyurl.com/cqsqx2 #

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• 07:44 Up early to see if I can get something–anything–together for crit group today. No promises, tho :(. #
• 08:44 First AM I’ve walked anywhere without my skoolbook in a week. Talk about liberating! #
• 08:46 Caffeine supply, check. Writing stuff, check. Writing playlist (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings), check. Let’s roll. #
• 09:57 Progress…so…slow! #
• 21:19 No time this evening to process crits from group. Tomorrow, maybe! For now, I think I’m just gonna hit the hay. #

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• 08:20 Stayed home from the jazz show & still managed to stay up too late. Sans studying. Off to a late start this morning–doesn’t bode well. #
• 08:33 WTF?? Since when did my tweets stop posting w/titles on the website? Oh, since 3/18. #
• 10:16 Interview with Haruki Murakami tinyurl.com/d23yk7 (If my reading backlog wasn’t so long…) #
• 12:36 Okay, I’ve wasted enough time today. I can hear my inner drill sergeant screaming, "Let me see your war face!!" #
• 13:57 Was in a cafe, listening to a trivia ? on the radio re: liner notes. Overheard someone ask, "What are liner notes?" #
• 20:13 Wings and beer–a decent way to end a day of brain-frying microecon. #

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• 07:57 Warmth + sun = hopefully less emo today, ‘cos I got stuff to do 🙂 #
• 07:58 1st pre-work AM all week not spent catching up on missed sleep or in a meeting. And I gotta spend it on skoolwork. Hurts, it really does. 🙁 #
• 08:05 Study playlist: All TOTO, all morning. ♫ blip.fm/~3h36v #
• 09:02 *sigh* I really, really don’t want to do the "smart thing" and blow off tonite’s jazz show. Maybe I just need to be stupid once in awhile 🙂 #
• 09:03 I know, you’re all saying, "*Once* in awhile??" Eh, screw you 😛 #
• 11:11 Notified about new chapter notes, a problem set for before the midterm, and one due right after?? That is SO not cool!! #
• 13:35 Gonna enjoy the walk back to work in the sun. I’ll have to fight to stop myself from walking *past* work :). #
• 14:21 RT @ColleenLindsay RT @newscientist "Pondering the population dynamics of vampires sn.im/eojvc " #
• 14:56 I need a nap. #
• 16:59 Yikes, what a *day*. I may miss tonite’s jazz show from sheer exhaustion :(. #
• 19:34 IMO, one of the most annoying things in life is being hungry while having no idea what you’re hungry for, even as the blood sugar plummets. #

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• 07:28 Long day No. 2. Whether I get much writing done this weekend depends on how today goes. Or it should, if I had any common sense :). #
• 08:34 Miscalculated the time and arrived a lil’ too early for class discussion section. Reviewing last problem set–wondering if it was too easy? #
• 08:34 Clearly, I *still* haven’t recovered from my late Sunday nite being camera meat :(. #
• 10:32 Minor errors on the problem set. Forgot about TR(Q) for the monopolist. Yeah, not 100% sure what that means, either. 😛 #
• 10:33 Tomoyasu Hotei w/@chicagotheband, "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" tinyurl.com/ckusaz My theme of the week. #
• 11:42 Determined not to miss @FLEFF like I did last year. Poring over schedules, now. #
• 12:49 All this gray’s making me feel emo. Simple solution: Boston’s "More Than a Feeling" on the mp3 player. ♫ blip.fm/~3fsci #
• 13:01 According to a couple of coworkers, I’m not the only one who felt manic in the sun yesterday, and emo in the gray today :(. #
• 14:40 Feelin’ good re: the studying plan. So far, as Palpatine said, "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it." #
• 16:17 Keep waffling back and forth about going to a public reading tonite. I wouldn’t, if I was smart…which is a pretty big "if," I know 😛 #
• 17:23 Looking at my skoolbooks & decided to do the almost-smart thing. If I’m gonna procrastinate, I’ll do it at home hehe. #
• 17:57 Reviewing problem sets on the downlow at work…shhhh! #
• 19:14 Carrot/stick time. If 2 chapters get done tonite/tomorrow, then I’m going to a jazz show tomorrow nite. If not, then the usual 100 lashes. #
• 20:25 Okay, 2 chapters tonite/tomorrow was just a weeeee bit unrealistic. Almost done with 1 chapter, tho :). #
• 20:29 RT @MaryRobinette RT @nalohopkinson Clarion South needs help: www.clarionsouth.org/donate.htm #

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• 07:23 As if I don’t have a hard enough time avoiding *new* TV–Carl Sagan’s COSMOS on Hulu www.hulu.com/cosmos #
• 07:24 Next two days are gonna be long and painful. All work & no write make Don a dull boy :(. #
• 09:44 AM mtg. wasn’t too heinous. At least, not for me. Now, only 8.75 hours to go. #
• 09:50 Cat Rambo, Jim C Hines, Merrie Haskell & Tobias Buckell on World Building for Short Stories tinyurl.com/cg2grh #
• 09:51 Just what I need–writing advice when I know there’s no time for me to write. The universe is a cruel place :(. #
• 11:46 Still not physically 100% for the uphill climb to skool. Gonna have to suck it up, tho ;). #
• 11:54 But at least I’ll have my noise cxl’ing headphones again. Guess I’ll have to relearn not getting so absorbed that I walk into traffic heh. #
• 13:35 Writing bug, leave me alone! Don’t want to notice the fascinating undergrad dialogue around me! Refuse to write it down. Midterm, remember?? #
• 13:37 Ah…screw it. 😀 #
• 15:06 Just now realized that not only can I breathe thru both nostrils, I’m *not* coughing up any more lung tissue! Huzzah!! #
• 15:09 Because I wanted a kick-ass happy song! ♫ blip.fm/~3ehf3 #
• 16:08 Wondering how heavily I’d have to hit the skoolbooks tonite to merit some writing time before Friday…? #
• 16:16 Following too many Twitters but don’t want to cut. Have TweetDeck on the netbook but I’m not always on the netbook. What to do…? #
• 17:06 Praying for 90 min of peace. Obviously, I’ve just jinxed myself. #
• 17:46 Sun and warmth seem to be doing something strange to my mood. Far, far fewer violent impulses today :D. #
• 17:58 RT @charlesatan Basic Online Publicity by Cat Rambocatrambo.livejournal.com/229929.html #
• 18:55 Escaped from my 10 hr. day a few minutes early to get a jump on studying. Out of the frying pan, etc. #
• 18:57 Study playlist: Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band #
• 20:44 I’ve got 8 days to the midterm and a plan of attack. Bring it!! #
• 21:10 Tonite’s GHOST HUNTERS at Edith Wharton’s retreat, The Mount! Makes me want to read some Wharton. #
• 21:39 Just added myself to the wefollow.com twitter directory under: #writer #fantasy #shortstories #

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• 08:22 Purposely getting off to a late start today to get more sleep. I can burn myself out this weekend. #
• 08:24 Coming 4/7/09: Cassandra Wilson’s CLOSER TO YOU: THE POP SIDE. Greatest hits but I’ll get it for the cover *SWOON* tinyurl.com/cokctl #
• 10:23 RT @ColleenLindsay Announcing Queryfail 2: Queries Never Die on Friday, April 17th… #queryfail #
• 11:40 Head still stuffy. Voice unrecognizable, according to coworkers. Good time to make some prank calls? 🙂 #
• 12:27 On "Writing When You Don’t Wanna" tinyurl.com/de83xg #
• 14:25 Most cryptic fortune cookie fortune I’ve ever rec’d: "How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?" WTF…? #
• 14:31 No writing at lunch. Had to stare and new problem set instead. Having my skoolbooks w/me might’ve helped. *headdesk* #
• 14:32 Meant, "Had to stare *at*…" Looks like I can’t even write now, either 🙁 #
• 16:42 Bit my tongue so as not to give a coworker Pacino’s speech from GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. "You’re job is to *help* us. Not to f**k us up!!" heh #
• 16:50 Gonna sneak some writing in tonite to use some of the brainstorming I snuck in on the dayjob’s dime >:D. #
• 17:33 Can’t get enough of this Steven Millhauser quote. Kinda like a mirror. www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/148862 #
• 17:39 My kingdom for a bionic right plantar fascia :*( #
• 18:17 Not looking forward to tomorrow AM’s team meeting. Anticipating my academic plan might have to be retooled. #
• 20:07 Couldn’t go another minute w/out noise-cxl’ing headphones. Outside world can now suck–uh, I mean, can be less distracting :). #
• 20:08 1 pg of rewrites–well worth the price of the headphones!! 🙂 #
• 20:42 Okay, gonna try today’s skool problem set again, this time w/book in hand! T-minus 8 days to midterm! #
• 22:40 I must be tired if I’m letting EASTENDERS distract me this much ;). #

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