$700 V-8 Moment

Posted by on Jan 28, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Remember those commercials for V-8? The ones where the characters realize the folly of their ways and whack themselves in the forehead, saying “Wow! I could have had a V-8”? That was me earlier today. ‘Cept my moment didn’t have anything to do with the USDA Food Pyramid.Today I got the call from the nice man at the data recovery service that has my dead hard drive. Dead...
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal?

Posted by on Jan 11, 2008 in dish | 1 comment If there’s one thing English teachers agree about, it’s that plagiarism is bad. Very, very bad. Kick you out of school and pile on the shame bad. Which is why most of us work ourselves into a bulging-vein froth when we INSIST that our students CITE THEIR FREAKIN’ SOURCES, for Pete’s sake. Doesn’t always work, but that’s not for lack of trying.So I have to...
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Musings: Stranger Than Fiction

Posted by on Jan 7, 2008 in dish | 4 comments Santa brought me this movie for Christmas, which became an immediate favorite after it reached the top of the Netflix queue. For one thing, it’s a fanciful view of the life of a writer, and for another, it’s an examination about the relationship between life and art (truth being, after all, “stranger than fiction”).In short: Harold Crick, an IRS auditor, begins hearing a...
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Taking Stock

Posted by on Dec 28, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Yes, I know, it’s ridiculously early in the morning, but I have a raging case of vacation insomnia going. That, or all the caffeine from those 3 large cups of iced tea I drank at dinner is smackin’ me down with a vengeance. I’ve spent the last two days in download-the-CDs-to-iTunes tedium (Santa brought me an iPod video–yay!), so all this time in front of the screen is...
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Loser!

Posted by on Nov 30, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Okay. If I can somehow write 9,100 words between now and midnight, I can still be a winner in this year’s NaNoWriMo.But since the squirrels are currently playing handball with what’s left of my cranium right now, I can’t see that happening. As it is, I racked up about 8K today, which is a hellacious output. Just not enough to make up for several days this month where my brain...
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