Ghosts of Bloggies Past 6

I'd forgotten all about Google Analytics, which shows you how much a term is searched in Google. So let's try some out...

Looks like Taylor Swift's profile was raised, thanks to Kanye. So the net result of his foolishness: Good for her career.

The climb of Stephanie Meyer (author of Twilight)'s popularity.

She by-passes Rowling!

Ghosts of Bloggies Past 5

Mann in Space episode 1.04

(my brother's online cartoon at the time)

Ghosts of Bloggies Past 4

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

I'm Smiling on the Inside, but Dying on the Outside

Trapped in the Library Part 1

Some girl just walked off and left her laptop sitting in the middle of the study room. I can't work, it's too disturbing, waiting for her to get robbed.


Trapped in the Library Part 2

This guy two desks down, who's been sniffing alarmingly (don't make me sick, sicko!), and whose techno music I can hear through his headphones, is now talking about loud on his cell phone. If I was actually coding the variables for my regression model, I could be in a towering rage of righteousness. But as I was forwarding an email about a Sanjaya parody... "Do you MIND?! I am forwarding an Amusing Youtube Video! SHUT UP!"


Trapped in the Library Part 3

Girl's phone buzzes. She retreats to a louder area to do her talking. But did she leave behind a laptop? I can't tell, the desk divider is blocking my view. How can I study when I'm constantly worried about people's property?


Trapped in the Library Part 4

He also keeps scratching his balls or something. Whatever it is that boys do.


Trapped in the Library Part 5

I've had two students approach me for help with the book reviews they're writing for the class I TA. The working day is never done. The library is bloody hot and humid.


Trapped in the Library Part 6

I'm really losing it.

Ghosts of Bloggies Past 3

On April 17, 2007 I posted an entry called: "Those child soldiers, they're so hot right now." (You need to see Zoolander to get the joke.) I was at a talk by Ishmael Beah, intro'd by Romeo Dallaire. Here's some of the content of that post:

And here's another thing--ah yes, it's all coming back to me now. Dallaire chided us (well not me cause I'm over 30) for not being willing to go out in -40degree weather to protest to the govt about, whatever. Darfur or something. (I don't know, he was just trying to make the point that if we don't care enough about other people that -40 weather would stop us, then we suck.) And I thought, man, if they said they were gonna pass a law tomorrow, that all London-Mabels should be put to death, and it was -40 degrees, I still wouldn't go out and march. Where was all that activism in 60s? In Berkely, man. That's in Califor-nie-ay.

I'm just a crazy web building fool

I finally found a site where you can easily build a web site. I mean... EASILY build. I know some web designers, but I'm not yet ready to spend real moulah on a web site when I don't even have an agent. I feel that would be an irresponsible use of my moneys. Plus, once you get a designer, you need them to maintain and update the site for you.

So for my current purposes, I am quite quite happy with little weebly. At the most I'll spend money for a domain name.

Here it is so far.

grrr.... hiss hiss

Now that Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) is over, and Dotewamo is over (Domestic Television Watching Month) is over, it's time for Regoreyear (Regular Goals Rest of Year). I was pretty good about working on my writing this year, but I'd like to be more disciplined so I can get things done faster. Imagine this conversation...

Potential Agent: Ooer I loved your book, how long did it take you to write?

Me: [mumbling as I count on my fingers] Let's see I started it when I returned to school and I got the bulk of it written the next summer but then I changed the ending and then had to revise a bunch more and then school finished and I gave it to people to help me revise so I worked on those changes and then I decided it needed to be longer so I wrote some more and of course then I had to revise some more, and with the final edits, and then composing the query letter, and finally the synopsis it took... [whips out calculator] six and a half years.

Potential Agent: ... ... ... So your next book will be ready in--

Me: 2016... maybe 2017, cause it's longer.

Ease.

I'm quick at the actual writing. It's the revising and editing and query letter writing and (now) synopsis. I need some realistic but strong goals. Meh meh meh.

I find a lot of political cartoons unfunny, but I like this one...

"White is a flesh colored band-aid." Sandy Huffaker, 1970