derivative living

i spent six hours today painting. it was a really difficult experience.
this morning, quinn came home from school depressed because he processed negatives that fell short of his expectations. i told him that failure was part of the growing process.
at 10:30pm, when my painting failed, i didn't believe my own advice. the self is an ironic being.

LITERARY ABANDON

so i'm doing NANOWRIMO

Quick stats for Fall

30+ days of pizza

17 books read

5 free screenings (bright star, whip it, motherhood, gentlemen broncos, the blind side)

3 classes (conversational computing, publishing, book history)

2 museums (isabella stewart gardner & ICA)

2 music venues (Have Heart's last show and David Bazan's Curse Your Branches tour)

1 trip out of the country (Montreal)

I left out the bad things. I find its better to forget those numbers.

Truth: My blogging is sporadic.

Reason: Laziness, the excuse that i'd rather live real life than web life, and an insecurity that nothing I record is worth recording.

Truth: I know more weird stuff about Joseph Smith than I ever did before moving to Massachussetts.

Reason: Outstitute, D. Michael Quinn, and a scholarly Sunday School.

Truth: It doesn't bother me.

Reason: In the vein of Rough Stone Rolling, I'd rather know my religion than just have faith. I think it's appropriate to do both.

Useful Sites

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Reverse image search engine> when you can't remember why you recognize a picture.

Quick website that converts documents to

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Ovala Toiaivao Paula Ita:

Hi sis, I just got home last night from a long trip out west of the state for my job. I stayed in 6 different hotels/motels and it was lonely with only me and myself on those kingsize beds, dang it! Btw, Amy was writing you a thank you card and wanted me to add something before she send it and I thought, shoot, these two old hags are stuck in this primitive way of communication. I'm not that old fashioned anymore, I'm hip now and into f/b and bebo and twitter...the heck with this writing postcards thing and sending them out the old fashioned way. It's just too...oldish style! Then again, I tend to forget that you two are getting too old and still stuck in the past, he!he! We still love our old girls though, ha!

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BAD HTML

According to the W3C Validator this blog is using a lot of bad code. If I can learn XHTML 1.1, maybe I will start blogging using a text editor (instead of a visual editor).

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