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Apropos nothing, I remembered a post by a frugality/early-retirement blogger who is of some note in the early-retirement blogging community. She and her husband have achieved financial independence and are now homesteading somewhere in the Northeast. What matters here is her post on when she knew she’d marry her husband. The pair dated in college. In…
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I was this close (imagine me holding thumb and forefinger at 1 mm distance from each other) to yelling at my graduate student. What he gave me with the words, “I am really proud of this manuscript,” was a completely unedited pile of $hit. He’s a fourth-year student, not a newbie. There were so, sooooo…
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Alas, I speak not of the fun kind, the province of randy college youth… Nay… My tale goes far back, all the way to the last millenium… And it is a dark one. Every year, come October, the pearly gates windows for NSF unsolicited proposals swing open. As if in a trance, thousands of pilgrim scientists gather to worship at…
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It’s Friday evening and it’s raining. I’m sitting in my car, waiting for my middle son to finish his outdoor flag-football practice. My phone is low on battery, so useless for killing time. I have with me a student’s manuscript draft, which I have been carrying around for a couple of weeks; I have done…
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♦ Obvious, yet somehow always surprising: Grading a midterm for a class of twenty leaves one with significantly more will to live than grading a midterm for a class of a hundred. ♦ It’s not that your story isn’t good, it’s that others are better. – A posh literary journal I can’t locate right now. Also,…
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I hate it that Saturday is such a slow day on the web, so here’s my contribution to the fight against the contentless slump: I read Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter a few months ago, but never posted about it. It’s a sci-fi thriller and it’s really good. The title is stupid, has nothing to do with…
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1st place ($10 Amazon gift card): BREW YOU by Ballpoint 2nd place, shared ($7.50 Amazon gift card each): RESILIENCE by Roseicapilla & ALMOST COST ME MY ACADEMIC LIFE by Distinguished Professor 3rd place ($5 gift card): … AND THE SILVER SPOON by Big boy blue Thanks everyone for playing! Distinguished Prof, if you want…
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*fanfare* Here are the stories that were submitted to the Xykademiqz Short-Fiction Contest! They are listed in the order in which I received them. Please read them all and vote for your favorite in the poll below. I said there would be three; the fourth was belated, but I’m including it anyway. To the author…
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I hate that Saturday is always the slowest day in the blogosphere. To counter the sound of crickets, here’s my offering for today. On Monday, October 2, starting at 00:01 EST, I will post the short stories that were submitted to our little contest. I only received three 😦 , but they are all pretty…
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Last day today to submit your 300-word story. Stories will appear starting Monday, Oct 2, and the readers will vote on them — chance to get small prizes! SUBMIT YOUR SHORT STORY HERE Here are the rules: Please submit a short story under 300 words. 1. The submission should include: a) your pen name…
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