It had been a busy day. I had just finished the taxes and we had left town to meet a fellow in the city. Somehow or other, I had gotten myself an interview, or maybe audition is the right word, to read a book for an audiotape. This would mean that if I got the job, then it would be my voice that would be talking on a book on tape. We had met a friend for dinner further south and then gone to a Jungian seminar at Bowdoin College. I didn't want to spend the money to stay in a hotel even though ...
"but no it's not a-raiin! that waters the cain crops but the sweat from man's brow- the substance of his spine... hallelujah time!" can anyone guess it? :D Well, I am going to a chess tournament in Stillwater for the weekend. I don't think I'll have much access to the computer and I'll be busy, since I am working it too. So I guess I will see you all later, next week or so...
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
Okay, in light of my recent failure to pass the English Cert exam, my parents have volunteered to send me to graduate school in English Lit. I credit my brother for paving the way. If I had told them my dreams of going to school for my masters, they would have said "that's nice" or "where are you going to get the money" or "you can't get a job with a masters. What are you going to do?" They are about as supportive of my passion and writing as Hillary Clinton would ...
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