Category: real life
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DST
Remember, kids, today is the only day when time travel is legal. We get to set our clocks back a whole hour at some point today. It’s a good thing, too, because I’ve got a shitload of stuff to do; papers to mark, video games to play, a novel to write. I just have to…
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Have You Got Another Jump I Could Hoop Through?
Speaking of spooky psychic stuff, today I was preparing a lecture when two things struck me almost simultaneously: Sloan’s song “She Says What She Means” popped into my head, and I had to pee like a racehorse. I scurried to the bathroom; relief filled me as I emptied my bladder, all the while humming the…
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NaNoWriMo 2007
It’s nearing the end of October, and that means it’s almost November, which is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! To get further practice for my new career in fiction writing, I’m going to give it a go again. The idea is to write an entire novel in one month. I tried this last year, and…