Last night, putting the paper together was like giving birth. Hours of waiting, pushing and exhaustion. Jason was chosen as the new editor. Congrats to him. I know the committee had a hell of a time trying to decide between candidates. Amanda and Kristin both would have been awesome choices as well. I tip my hat to them all. Though I won’t be working for Sidelines in the fall, I will remain a vocal and…
Nasty weather. April showers. December cold. I’m attempting a bit of a redesign. I’m completely limited by what I can do in Pagebuilder. I would love to do more but I have neither the knowhow nor the time. There might be minor trouble with broken links and the like, so bear with me. I finally finished the Sirens of Titan yesterday and began on The Passion. Titans was pretty good, but it got tedious halfway…
Yesterday: shopping with Joey, Marie, and Amber in Nashville. Lots of little shops filled with incense and unwanted T-shirts. I bought a cool blue pullover button-up and and Hardee’s tee. I got some wooden blue bangles for $2 and some ridiculous sunglasses for $8. I must say, the thrift scene in Nashville is way pricier than the humble digs in my hometown. There, you can rummage through a box of shirts that are a quarter…
Friday Five, on Saturday. 1. What do you do for a living? I’m a student, but I work as a designer/editor. 2. What do you like most about your job? I like the creative process involved with designing pages. I get to take several different puzzle pieces each day and put them in whatever order I think is most appropriate. It’s challenging but it also tests my creativity and resourcefulness, which I love. 3. What…
It’s refrigerator magnet poetry time. extraterrestrial life orbit earth fantastic UFO speed pod could martian glow green encounter alien spaceman (phil) +++ vaporize at sunset flee to their terrifying master feel … want eclipse now high yellow force distant wrinkle in thought (me) +++ live for space look for jupiter (me) +++ shining year many stood sighting spaceship outer space disc shock phenomenon (phil) +++ let’s suspend morning conquer … crash … explode get out…
As I leafed through note after note last night it occurred to me that each letter from each of my old friends perfectly personifies the author. Just looking at the handwriting and the subject matter and the sentence structure would give a stranger such a clear insight into who these people were at that time. I wonder if any of my friends ever wonder what happened to those letters they gave me, and, beyond that,…
I know my boyfriend better than any other person on this planet knows my boyfriend. But I don’t really know my boyfriend. I mean, I love him more than any person on this planet, but I don’t really know him, like he knows him. It’s odd. When you’re feeling down, all you really need to do is go to your car and retrieve from your trunk two shoeboxes filled with letters from your childhood friends…
[Yay] I got a $25 gift card to Books-a-Million today. [Boo] I found out that design pay is going to be cut soon, thanks to our brilliant adviser who tells us not to worry about money and then asks us to cut payroll every other month. [Yay] I bought an ice cream cone from the KUC. [Boo] I got fooled by some silly Crush Calculator Web site I saw on Leslie’s blog. You can go…
Television linked to attention problems? You don’t say! Headline: Young children who watch TV may face risk of attention problems, researchers say By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) – Researchers have found that every hour preschoolers watch television each day boosts their chances – by about 10 percent – of developing attention deficit problems later in life. The findings back up previous research showing that television can shorten attention spans and support American…
Looking for a new place to live is one of those things middle-class people get all giddy about. Until they actually have to do it. Then it becomes a chunky slice of purgatory, served up steaming and frustrating. I will be moving to Birmingham in a month and a half. I’ve found some strong possibilities for my future three-month home, but nothing that looks feasible. Everything is damned expensive. I want very badly to just…
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