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Europe. All of it.

Hell yeah.

You've got the car. I've got the boring college town.

And here I thought we were going to talk about the racist/hypermasculine (anti-femme)/ and misogynistic culture perpetuated by a significant number of gay males in the LGBT community.

In the immortal words of Bartleby: "I would prefer not to."

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I had two options: use my short stories written for class as my thesis, so the 150 pages would be readily available for comments and critique from the committee, or write a novel, which usually means writing short stories for class plus an extra 150 or so for the thesis. So I'm writing something around 260 pages in my two years here.

Thank ya! <3

Same goes for most Red Bull flavors.

He seems to be having trouble with Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" and Kronos Quartet's "Black Angels: Movement 1, Departure"

Thanks!

Thank ya! I still have the thesis work but that's what I've been doing on top of my coursework for the last three months, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'm at 85 pages of a 150 page minimum.

I hope so. I think I'd make a good copywriter.

They're few and far between. The places that offer them only offer about one position a year. But I'm not entirely opposed to the idea, mainly because it's an easy way to secure tenure, provides more collegiate teaching experience, is fully funded, and gives the writer time to work on their craft. A lot of my professors dismiss it, but the state of adjunct teaching is so much different than it was for them, so it might actually be a wiser idea now. So that's an option, plus the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, which is similarly competitive but also an unfailing way to boost your career.

which sounds like cause for celebration and a round of drinks, until I tell you I'm a fiction MFA candidate and drinking is practically a fundamental part of the routine and now that I'm out I'm looking forward to cutting back.

That sounds like fun.

Yeah, but that seems like a lot of restuffing info into your head, too. Also, all words? What about defunct words that you might still find in old work but still have definitions?

Gotta love Amazon for making my home city both interesting and impossibly expensive to live in.

That seems like a lot of time spent reading multiple dictionaries over and over, updating every year when new words are added in light of popular use by the language's speakers. Unless you're a professional Scrabble player. Then it would be strangely feasible.

Six months. I was in South Korea. He was not.

Not really, unless it's a word that feels more fitting than any other word I previously used to describe the same feeling or situation. Sometimes certain words, like verisimilitude, feel like I'm applying baggage to a sentence, but I'm honestly pleased with my usage of verisimilitude here because this is the first time I've felt like I've had a reason to use that word. I do get really excited when language is used in a way that's surprising/emotionally exact though, like in Grace Paley's short work titled Wants: "He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through the ear down the throat, half-way to my heart. He would then disappear, leaving me choking with equipment." I never re-read that and don't feel astonished by it.

These are really good! <3

Close enough.

Bob Dylan stole it.