I’ve accrued enough cool things on the web over the past 2 days that it’s time to share. Here we go:
1. In Orson Scott Card’s latest review column, he mentioned a new dictionary that is available. It’s called Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. Yeah, it’s cool. It’s a whole dictionary dedicated [...]
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Today’s been a day of playing catch-up…settling back in to normal life. I think I’ve about caught up on everyone’s blogs. If I haven’t, I’m getting there, I promise. Lord, you people write too much!
Lets see. I’ve gotten most of my thank you notes done today and mailed off which feels good. I [...]
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Ah, the bed feels comfy and home smells sweet. I loved Mexico, it was beautiful, but there’s nothing like being back home after a week. Where do I start? I could make this a really long blog post, but I’ll make it a short on instead and just touch on the highlights.
The resort was beautiful. [...]
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Sorry for the very short posts lately, but I’ve been so so busy! Here’s the proof!:Followed by brunch at Brennan’s which is one of the most famous of the fine dining restaurants in New Orleans which was awful and horribly over priced, but the ambiance was nice.
Here’s me and Meg (at Brennan’s) who supported me [...]
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So tonight was the Honors Ceremony for graduation. The “big news” that was talked about in the comments section last night was that there was a rumor that I was going to get an award. I did in fact get an award for excellence in research for the research I did that I presented at [...]
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Megan’s coming in town today which makes me very happy Tonight is the honors ceremony, tomorrow is graduation. I leave for Mexico at 6:00 AM on Tuesday and return the following Tuesday (May 29th). So I’ll probably leave the occasional blog post from now until May 22nd, but they won’t be as frequent as [...]
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The Dream Hunters is the first book I have read this year that I would recommend that everyone should own a copy of. What a special book. It’s quite a beautiful tale told through the lustrous words of Neil Gaiman and the amazing oil paintings and charcoal sketches of Yoshitaka Amano. Both are among my [...]
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This is actually the first time I’ve read Oscar Wilde. I started The Picture of Dorian Gray a long time ago, but never finished it for some reason. His compete fairy tales were wonderful! I loved them all. They were all quite unique, but revisited common themes seen in children’s fairy tales. The moral lessons [...]
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So I’ve been tagged again by Literacy Chic, but I like this one and it requires no brain power :).
You simply have to grab the book nearest to you (no cheating here), turn to page 161, and post the text of the fifth full sentence on the page along with the body of the instruction [...]
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It seems that someone diverted me away from my plan to not buy any more books this month. I was sitting at home minding my business when all of a sudden my phone rang. Two friends informed me that they were heading over to Barnes and Noble and that I should meet them. I suddenly [...]
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