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Continue reading →: Final Drafts and AudioA thought occurred to me recently regarding what is usually the final draft of a story for me (Footnote 1). That draft has me read the story out loud to make sure I haven’t missed anything that needs to be fixed. If I can’t get a sentence out verbally, it…
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Continue reading →: Some Anniversaries Are HardIt’s been a year since Mom died, a year filled with first withouts. First birthdays without Mom, including hers. First Christmas without Mom. First anniversary without Mom. Everything that she’d normally have been involved in, every family chat or gathering, every visit, every phone call, she wasn’t there, and we…
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Continue reading →: SF Saturday – Alien Nation S01E19, “Rebirth”Or episode 18 if you count the pilot as Episode 0 like IMDB does. Most folks who are even aware of the franchise are probably a lot more familiar with the James Caan, Mandy Patinkin alien buddy copy movie. Some folks will know, but probably haven’t seen, that there was…
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Continue reading →: Fri-ku for 11 Apr 2025(technically written last Friday) Branching paths stretch out As the scattering begins– Joy and sadness mixed
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Continue reading →: Monthly Themes RevistedIn spite of all the careful planning to make it the easiest term of my undergraduate degree, life found ways of making Winter term of fourth year far tougher than I wanted. But I’m a grad student now—well, technically on May 1st—and supposed to have a tiny bit of free…
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Continue reading →: To Cross or Not To Cross the Border
Not to cross. If you’re taking a politics break, particularly a US politics break, you should probably skip this post. I’ll remind everyone who might be reading that I don’t think any subjects should be off the table that inform our lives, and politics helps keep the blood warm. The…
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Continue reading →: Oh, So DoneThe original plan for this was to be three separate posts: But there were other significant deadlines involved. I handed in my thesis last Monday morning and almost the next moment dove into the next thing that had to be finalized. There were two papers for two of my electives,…
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Continue reading →: A Timeline of My Academic Highlights and Plans
I’m three and a half weeks from being finished all of the academic requirements for an honours Physics degree. But that’s not where I started. Bear with me for a paragraph or so. It’s entirely possible I’ve put most or all of this into various blog posts over the past…
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Continue reading →: Time for an Update
Long past time, really. While I’m not going to go into details on the various life events that are affecting my writing output, I will hit a few high points: There probably won’t be a lot of posting going on here until after my last exam, but I’ll try to…
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Continue reading →: Fri-ku for 07 Feb 2025
From some random spot A jagged shattered outline Slowly passing by
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