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I write. A lot. Problem is, a good chunk of it — three quarters, or more, I would venture to say — is total crap. Well, not total, but it certainly isn’t great. In fact, most of it isn’t even good. Nevertheless, I still write. A lot.

If you’ve been reading for a while you know that my posting frequency has diminished from a high of five (and sometimes more) posts per week to a paltry weekly posting. The reason for this is multi-fold, but it really boils down to a few big reasons: Continue reading ‘It’s a Bit Surprising I’m Still Thinking Like This’

In college, we called the week right before finals “dead week.” During this week there were no parties, no activities, no outside BBQ’s… Just a bunch of students huddled up in Cooper Hall or in the library, or in the practice rooms, or in the labs and studios, trying to cram a semester’s worth of information into their brains, praying that it stuck there long enough to pass the exam. (Really, did anyone ever study any other way? I mean, outside of those weirdos who actually wanted to learn what they were learning. And post-graduate students.) Continue reading ‘Dead Week’