Stealing Some Time Back From The Internet, And A Couple Of Random Notes

[dr_pretentious]

March is looking like a massive pile-up of good but time consuming things. Some of them are fun, some will be a lot of work, a few are unexpected family obligations. All of them add up to an urgent need to steal back an hour or two a day through the end of March.

So I won't be trying to keep up with my lj friends list for a few weeks. If anything dramatic happens in your life that you need me to know about, please email me or call me, because I won't be finding out about it on livejournal.

Of course, I probably won't be able to refrain from posting, which I feel kind of bad about. I believe in the spirit of reciprocity, dammit. Who am I to keep posting, when I won't be reading anybody else? Probably I should just get over this.



Two completely unrelated things:

Montaigne didn't begin writing until he was 38. Well, that takes a little of the sting out of my unpublished state, at least for another year.

One of my students just called to thank me. Her SAT scores in Writing and Critical Reading went up 200 points each, and she got a 10 out of 12 on the essay. In her last SAT attempt, her essay got a 7. None of the schools she wants are long shots anymore. This girl was born to be an engineer. With any luck, she'll head off to Carnegie Mellon and do her part to rectify their notoriously skewed male to female ratio.

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[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

And Amy Clampitt sold her first poem at 58. The MacArthur Foundation didn't think her late start hurt her any. When my publication prospects feel especially bleak, I meditate on Amy Clampitt.