Happy Halloween! My favorite holiday! And what a great way to begin the day: there was a terrific ground mist at my place this morning. That low-creeping, slithering kind of fog that you see in old Sherlock Holmes movies. (As an aside, I must take back my prediction that this Halloween would be celebrated in […]

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I’ve come up with a name for the novel that I will attempt to write over the next 30 days: The Remarkable Revelation of Virgil Vigil. I have no idea what it’s about yet but the title is intriguing, I think.

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I’m about two-thirds of the way through Bless Me, Ultima now and I love it. It’s a fantastic book, misleading in it’s simplicity, far deeper than one might initially perceive. Having grown up in New Mexico, I am familiar with many of the words used in the book. I love that Anaya mixes English and […]

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Okay, so I missed out on signing up for NaNoWriMo this year, but I think I’ll still try to participate anyway. It sounds like great fun. I have no idea what I’ll write about, which seems to be the point, really–just get up and go. So let’s see, at 12pt Times New Roman with 1-inch […]

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Ari and I took Julien to the annual Longhorn Halloween carnival yesterday. Longhorn Halloween is a special event just for UT employees and their families. It was great fun. The Division of Biological Sciences had a cool display area with real sheep’s brains, a scorpion, a centipede, a tarantula, and a real gator! Aiyeee! Honestly, […]

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Who’s a happy camper? I am! I am! All this week, the Travel Channel is focusing on Haunted Destinations. Spoooooooooky.

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I just met MC Hammer. I’m not kidding. He came to Austin for the inauguration of our College President and the celebration of our College’s Charter Day today. Apparently, he’s donating money to a new dance/music program at the school. And I just met him. Weird. I used to detest his music and his skinny-black-man […]

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I’ve been listening to Los Lobos lately (I love that their splash page says, Peace, ese!). I’m listening to the older stuff, the Spanish stuff. La Pistola y El Corazón nearly brings me to tears, even though I don’t completely understand all the words. The sadness in Hidalgo’s voice when he sings, Los besos que […]

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Since I’m on the quiz memetrain already (chugga-chugga-whooooo-whoooo!), here are the results of another test I took [via Leia–hey, that rhymes!]:
I AM 20% PUNK.
Here’s what it told me: “It’s not a fashion craze, or even a cool thing to do. Swallow it. Get Lost, and take your friends with you.” Ouch.

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Well, hell, I’m goin’ for broke:
I AM 39% GOTH.
“Goth by night, normal by day. Deep in my heart I know I am evil, but not on the company’s time. I do need to eat.”
And …
I AM 37% GEEK.
“I probably work in computers, or a history deptartment at a college. I never really fit […]

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