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10/22/2005

My List of Great Young Adult Books:

This is just a list of some of the greatest books ever. They are at this place in the layers of stuff accumulating in my brain that’s linked to an age where I was thinking about so many things for the very first time. Or, if I read them later, they’re linked to the piece [...]

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10/16/2005

Images for Boutique Design

layout sketch for the editor’s picks

10/15/2005

Software is like a map for riding waves

The pressing need for software
only happens to come to you
as you are approaching
the swell
of a new project or a
new stage. Time gets quicker
as the complexity of thoughts and looming tasks adds up.
At this point your mind begins to divide, or to slip more quickly
back and forth between perspectives: you are the delicately balanced master of [...]

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10/12/2005

RSS for Blogging

el and I obviously spend some time blogging, and we often hit up against the old blogger’s block. (and yes i’m embracing the usage of the word blog. we can’t just laugh in a superior and vague way whenever the word is mentionned forever, ok montreal?) The RSS reader is very useful for its ability [...]

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China, what’s up?

Today my little visit counter thingy with the flags is only showing love from China. And the visits are all coming from almost the exact same IP addresses. Part of me really really believes that these are just an awesome gang of Chinese Risa fans. That I have struck some chord with some tiny percentage [...]

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10/11/2005

Ongoing Novel Edits

I’m thinking that the story will be told more from Emilie’s perspective as it develops. There will still be portions of the story told from her parents’ perspective- i think the parents will be more developed characters then they sometimes are in young adult fiction. There are some things these parents are trying to protect [...]

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10/6/2005

definition of Innis’ use of “public opinion”

Public opinion for Innis is best defined by the great pains he took to make it known that his own ideas about public opinion were, by definition, distorted: “since the student is so completely influenced by the phenomena he describes. Objectivity may be improved by considering (public opinion’s) development over a long time but even [...]

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10/3/2005

grumblin’ and then Thinking about Language

hhmmmm. grumble. so, i’m stoked to have a writing job, and there are millions of other jobs out there that i’m glad i’m not doing, but i still feel grumbly about it all today. I called my first five businesses to profile this morning, and everyone was too busy to talk- which is fine, i [...]

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10/2/2005

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10/1/2005

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Yay! Employment!

So, I’ve got a job, actually, 2 jobs, I think, but fortunately I’ve managed to steer clear of much adult-hood still bc these jobs are not the buckle-down and be professional every day sort. I’m a freelancer and a substitute teacher. Freee as a birdd. The freelancing gig involves calling up business owners, interviewing them [...]

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