tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256170867680779912011-07-31T03:07:38.464-07:00the most important pages are always markedmissdanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07225328089926617127noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825617086768077991.post-60194003757245390342009-09-14T20:59:00.000-07:002009-09-14T21:51:06.265-07:00

Ok, so this may seem like a lame blogpost to end a lengthy absence with, but I am very excited about this new phone because I have not gotten a new phone in 6 years or something. Now that I am the owner of a dual slider QWERTY keyboard/keypad phone that allows me to text, video and instant message at the click of a button, I feel so modern it's ridiculous.The reason for my recent update in

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I just scribbled these things down. I call them poems only because the fact that I wrote them down in a notebook all within 5 minutes sounds poetic to me.I feel like locking myself away with my curling ironand creating something newout of something crinkly and crunchyadding fingertip-burning heat to dry lifeless hairMy curling iron is my best friend--I flip the switch and it heats up.It

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So walking around Tokyo Disney Sea yesterday, my brother and I decided to document this bizarre Japanese phenom of t-shirts with seemingly "American" phrases printed on them that make absolutely no sense at all. Here are some highlights:little girl wearing a pink t-shirt with a sparkly crown on it, above the word NEBULA printed in pink sparkly lettersguy wearing purple t-shirt with the word

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Jordan gave me a beautiful journal as a thank you for being on Teeth staff =)Tabor was showing pornographic videos in class and was almost failed as a result.Finally established a ground rule in week #10: no porn in class.Britta got me some super cool software that I will probably become obsessed with very quickly.I did a total of 25 submissions this quarter which, compared to the average, is a

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My boyfriend and I were flipping through the channels this morning. It's always difficult to find something to watch on Sundays. Have you noticed that? Anyways, we had to settle for the World Cheerleading Championships at Walt Disney World. And after watching it for half an hour, I have some serious questions about the sport of cheerleading:Why does the background music always consist of one

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Upon Sarah's request to hear about publishing from the other side.Since I recently gained a plethora of knowledge about how Word documents become a physical book, I utilized the whiteboard (after erasing a bunch of Physics problem sets, bwaha) and listed the 23 1/2 steps of publishing in more or less a correct order, along with side notes relating to and expanding on certain points.Attendance was

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This week, we had a guest lecturer, Robin Tiffney! And in addition to bringing homemade brownies and lemon bars, she imported a wealth of knowledge to our class.She handed out a 4-page summary of tips and insights to the world of publishing to start out. It includes lists of helpful books and websites that can help writers with a myriad of tasks such as finding an agent and choosing an

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For the past two weeks, I have been holed away in the cave that is the CCS computer lab putting together the collection of short stories from the Short Short Fiction class. With the help of my good friend Britta, who taught me how to use InDesign (and a Mac, for that matter) in just two hours, I began my epic first creation in the world of the books.I have to say I thought it would be harder,

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Today I had a meeting with my new faculty adviser. She is the type of person that would memorize the dictionary and feel inclined to hand everyone she comes in contact with a list of words they must know in order to "survive in the real world". Thus, going into this meeting, I knew she was actually going to advise me on what I should be taking next quarter, rather than just nodding her head when

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1. Tabor is spazzing out to "Super Freak". It's 80's day in colloquium class.2. Desmond is missing class because he fell asleep on the bus and ended up on State Street.3. We found Spectrum's listing on PW.org and it's lame. Made a note to add some color pictures to it and some more useful info in order to get a jump on reclaiming Spectrum's national reknown.4. The Lit couple seemingly broke up as

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Tonight, I received my first rejection letter from Boxcar Poetry Review. No hard feelings, guys. It was pretty cool, a bit of initiation, if you will. It reads as follows:Thank you for submitting your work to Boxcar Poetry Review. We have read your submission with interest, but have decided not to publish these particular poems. We appreciate your efforts and wish you all the best in your

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Barry joined us today to offer up some wisdom and insights into the world of publishing. A published author several novels and a great many literary magazines over, he definitely has a wealth of knowledge and we got to pick his brain for an hour.Some things that came up were:using Post-Its as cover letters with a quick note such as "Dear Editors, Hope you have time to look over some of my stuff,

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Britta invited me to be a guest blogger on The Elephant Speaks, the official blog of CCS' Literature Collaborative regarding the Literature major meeting with Bruce held this past Friday.View my post here.

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Today was Show and Tell at school. Krista, Aimee and Laurie all brought in their My Little Pony Dolls and Mrs. Clasen let them go up together and talk about their My Little Ponies. Krista’s is blue with yellow hair and a sun on its butt. Aimee’s is purple with green hair and a clover. But Laurie! Do you know which one Laurie has? She has the best one of all. It’s pink. And it has rainbow hair.

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IT'S WEEK FOUR ALREADY!?!wtf.The Dalai Lama is visiting our school today. And it's Alumni weekend. Needless to say, there are people everywhere. Too many people.I almost ran over 3 people biking to class.CCS' annual writing contests are now accepting submissions: http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/award/writing_contests/DEADLINE MAY 1ST, 2009I need some new sunglasses.Last night I found out that my

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some uplifting quotes about writing:"Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications." - Raymond Carver. "It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send chills along a reader's spine.... That's the kind of writing that most interests me." -Raymond Carver."No cheap tricks." -Geoffrey Wolff"No iron can pierce the

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We are making headway!Talked about the following:Format of documentsCover lettersBiosSASEsMisc. (file names, email subjects, page #s, etc.)Blog addressesPicking publicationsWe have made some discoveries already:Every publisher has a certain way they want submissions formatted (inc. file names, email subjects, page #s, etc.)Big-name publishers often want you to cough up 2 or 3 bucks to have your

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After I spent hours transferring this blog to tumblr, the site managed to completely erase all the HTML I coded as well as the regular HTML stored for my tumblr theme. So now my tumblr is blank.Actually, no it's not.I had to switch it to a theme to get back the post I had made to christen my hard work.Also, having completed my first post, I realized there was no way to allow people to comment on

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Ok well minor snafoo regarding class time began our second session and what sucked about it was that it was totally my bad. But many good things came out of our second class, includingblogs! I spent all day today transferring my blogspot blog to tumblr, trying to make it look exactly like the blogspot one I spent hours making. The only thing I couldn’t get to transfer was the double line

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"If you could only eat one type of cuisine for a year, what would it be?"I would have to say American cuisine.Why American cuisine?Why!?! Well, because it's AMERICAN! It's barbeque! It's apple pie! It's hamburgers and hot dogs and peanuts at a baseball game, that's why! It's slushies and sundaes and mint julep!No, really...Though I really do enjoy these aspects of American cuisine, these aren't

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Right now, I feel weird. Why? I don't really know. If I did, I probably wouldn't feel weird because I'd be able to fix whatever was bugging me.It might be the fact that I did a cycling class at the gym this morning after a week and some of no exercise and I'm just tired.It might be the fact that I'm driving back to school tomorrow and traveling makes me nervous. It doesn't matter if it's a boat,

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"Sometimes, you just gotta say, 'What the fuck.'" -Risky Business"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." -Alfred Lord Tennyson"And the best thing you've ever done for me / Is to help me take my life less seriously / It's only life after all." -"Closer to Fine" Indigo Girls"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in

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When I was a year old, I decided to climb this bookshelf that my daycare lady had in her house, for reasons that have been forgotten. As I hauled myself up to the second shelf, my tiny fingers clutching the top of the bookcase, my little shoe slipped and I hit my eye on the edge of the wooden frame. Of course I screamed like a banshee until my daycare lady came to find me gushing blood from the

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"Write about a song that reminds you of someone, then state why."Every time I hear the song "Golden" by My Morning Jacket, I think of Lindsay.Not really the entire song, but there's a specific part that reminds me of her and it goes like this:"You, you always told me / No matter how long it holds me / If it falls apart or makes us millionaires / You'll be right here forever / Go through this

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"When did you notice it had left you, assuming you noticed at all? Write about a strong emotional feeling you had once, one that you were sure would never go away. Write about how it went away slowly or suddenly."Doctors in the Middle Ages used to believe that lovesickness actually existed and caused physical problems and that the only way to cure lovesickness was to consummate the love through

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