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I heard about this petition at critiquecircle.com, one of my writing sites, and while I usually don’t get caught up in activism of this sort, I was annoyed enough by Amazon’s rationale and methodology that I went ahead and signed. I didn’t use the option to e-mail friends about the petition, but I’m bugged, and [...]
Filed by Cally at April 12th, 2009 under Uncategorized
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Though it’s the only thing I’ve done all weekend other than go out to dinner with a friend I haven’t seen since early January, which I justified only because she owes me money that I owe someone else, I have successfully completed my appellate brief in time to theoretically get a rational amount of sleep [...]
Filed by Cally at April 5th, 2009 under Uncategorized
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This week I read a lot of books. I went to the Library on Wednesday to return STORM FROM THE SHADOWS by David Weber, and while I was there saw the new L. E. Modesitt book, IMAGER. So I poked around a little, and also saw SECOND SKIN by Caitlin Kittredge, UNFALLEN DEAD by Mark [...]
Filed by Cally at April 4th, 2009 under Uncategorized
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I had a nice spring break.
Monday’s meeting with my writing group went pretty well, although one of the girls didn’t have a piece ready and the other girl’s was a look into God and his therapist, which for whatever reason didn’t do much for me, though I think conceptually it was probably a good [...]
Filed by Cally at March 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized
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Evidently, MS Word finds my word choices offensive. I’d understand if I’d used a curse word, or some really nasty bigoted term, but this is the sentence it just is dying to make me change:
She subtly adjusts her posture and beckons toward the waitress, who does not seem perturbed that she missed Emily’s entrance.
Now, [...]
Filed by Cally at March 18th, 2009 under Uncategorized
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A Baltimore man doused his 60+ grandmother in shellac and lit her on fire today because she refused to give him money. Luckily, her next door neighbor was a retired firefighter and heard her screaming for help from her porch and was able to help put out the fire with the help from another man. [...]
Filed by Cally at March 9th, 2009 under Uncategorized
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Now that this week’s episode of Dollhouse is over, I feel a little at loose ends. I don’t want to go to sleep (though I am a bit tired) but I can’t seem to get motivated to do any of the things I could be doing:
Edit another chapter of Tower of Nine
Write the next scene [...]
Filed by Cally at March 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized
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My professor is pissed!
We got this e-mail this morning:
I want to reiterate what is stated in the syllabus. Whether using laptop computers or not, students are expected to be fully prepared and to follow class discussion. If a student using a laptop responds to a question by saying, “Would you repeat the [...]
Filed by Cally at March 5th, 2009 under Uncategorized
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When I woke up this morning and checked my e-mail to see if school had been canceled, I wasn’t really surprised — I have noticed that colleges almost always take the “two hours late” route, no matter how illogical it is, or how unlikely that the roads will clear much.
So I grumbled a bit, and [...]
Filed by Cally at March 2nd, 2009 under Uncategorized
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Something I just realized, reading the section of my constitutional law textbook about due process and incorporation: despite the television shows, there was for a long time no 5th amendment right against self-incrimination in state court.
Admittedly many states have such a right in their state constitutions, but the supreme court wouldn’t enforce the 5th [...]
Filed by Cally at March 1st, 2009 under Uncategorized
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