NaNoWriMo
So November starts National Novel Writing Month affectionately known as NaNoWriMo. It is a writers challenge to create a small novel (50,000 words) in thirty days with daily wordcount goals and games...
View ArticleLohan, Lips and Leggings, Oh My
I was going to post a long drawn out diatribe on Lindsey Lohan as a victim of her own ego which is perpetuated by her dreadful family. I was going to address the hackneyed Ungaro "fashion" show of hers...
View ArticleRoger Ebert's Review of the new Transformers Movie
I have not even seen this movie yet, but this review was too hysterical not to share. I used to religiously watch Siskel and Ebert and dreamed of doing my own reviews someday. If I can become half as...
View ArticleNaNo What Mo?
So I'm doing NaNoWriMo and my story is just ... sucking. The first time was so exciting and interesting. This time I just feel stressed and uninspired. I hated my execution of my first idea so after...
View ArticleDr King, Deconstructed
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Today on Martin Luther King Day, I cannot reflect on the hardships people have faced in the faded, dim recollection of the past. I cannot recall the...
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Book Review: This Book Will Save Your Life
I really wanted to like this book. I liked the blurb on the back. I liked the funny description on the inside of the dust jacket. I nearly purchased it several times. The plot had so much potential. A...
View ArticleThe Wiener of the Opera is there, inside my mind...
I bought my friend tickets to see Phantom at the Wharton Center in East Lansing. We started out the night with a fantastic dinner at The State Room where we ate far too much and felt bloated and a wee...
View ArticleGaming, Color and Gender... Oh My
I recently read a fabulous article in Bitch Magazine about being a Female Trekker (Trekkie is passe and insulting). In an interesting historical note, it was women that saved the show from being...
View ArticleWow New Layout!
Hello solitary fan of my blog! How have you been? I've been well thanks! I took a long sabattical from blogging because... well I'm lazy and no one really reads this and now I'm probably only posting...
View ArticleI think therfore I Google
I in the midst of my NaNoWriMo novel and for once I'm branching out into ACTION SEQUENCES,which has lead to a pile of nerdy questions regarding weaponry, ballistics, injuries and police. For instance,...
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Huzzah!
Wrote 10,000 words in 24 hours. Talk about a comeback from the abyss.So exhausted. Bedtime.I don't think I want to be a novelist. Perhaps being a farmer would be a better career path. I certainly slung...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Deconstructed
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Today on Martin Luther King Day, I cannot reflect on the hardships people have faced in the faded, dim recollection of the past. I cannot recall the...
View ArticleTales of a Medical Receptionist
*I'm going back in time and culling some of my favorite moments as a medical receptionist. A darling twenty year old college student comes into University Physician's Office where I work. She bypasses...
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Raise your hand if you've been bullied
I read a blog post today, written by a Pennsylvania photographer, Jen Mcken regarding cyber bullying. She discovered some of her clients were bullying others on Facebook and she canceled their senior...
View ArticleOf Frozen Coke and Nazis...
On Sunday, I looked terrible. Truly awful. I was wearing a bulky black t-shirt with the neckline cut out. The shirt says, "What happens under the mistletoe, stays under the mistletoe". I had on blue...
View ArticleTales of a Medical Receptionist: Herp Derp
I have to give our young patients a financial responsiblity form to fill out. It is only half a page in length and it's written in the simplest language you can use for insurance information. The...
View ArticleMissing My Religion...
I'm an Atheist.I was raised by a Catholic Grandma and a Protestant Grandpa. I went to a small-town non-denominational church where I excelled at memorizing Bible verses. My favorite song was "Jesus...
View ArticlePublished? Published!
Duuude, I'm getting a story published in an anthology and I don't even have to pay them to do it!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYcqToQzzGYI'm wondering, though, how far up I have to move before my...
View ArticleWhy do my best stories happen at speedway?
So I had to go to Speedway for some gasoline. While I was at it, I went inside the store and bought some krispy cremes and a frozen coke because I take my drown my sorrows in junk food (thanks...
View ArticleMistakes were *almost* made
So here are two seemingly unrelated facts: 1. I work in a doctors office and I often have to copy and paste information from one system to another as we have one software for scheduling and a seperate...
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