March 2012
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Inexcusable
There is this policy in all my classes this semester - if you miss more than three classes with an unexcused absence, you lose a letter grade. Only, excuses aren’t that easy to come by. “I have a chronic migraine condition. I couldn’t get out of bed that day. Sorry.” was not an excuse. One strike in three classes for that one.
Today, I have a paper due at midnight for one...
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“1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400...”
– John Steinbeck on “how to keep from going nuts” while writing.
From Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45.
via openculture which also has a great video of Steinbeck’s 1962 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(via kenyatta)
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anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for all things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
