Last week Tuesday, Lauren and I spent 21 hours in some form of travel or travel-related waiting. By the time we got to Minneapolis, it didn’t matter that we only had thirty minutes layover, we were going to eat.
Yes. Those are. Continue reading The Luddite Technologist: Mimosa at St. Paul’s International.
I’ve got a reason for my daily blog lapse!
(don’t you always?)
But seriously! With the Japanese Language Placement Test N1 on my plate for Sunday, I couldn’t hardly focus on anything other than my own looming doom. I get some mercy for that, right?
(no!)
Continue reading We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging thanks to: The JLPT N1
Hey Everybody!
Tonight’s the last night of my Louisiana thanksgiving vacation extravaganza. I had an absolutely great time, caught up with old friends, and ate dangerously. All in all, a success. Well, in most ways. How’s my 1000 word/day fiction target and one blog a day working out?
| Date | Fiction Written | Non-Fiction Written | Total Written |
| 11/25/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/24/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/23/2012 | 1069 | 800 | 1869 |
| 11/22/2012 | 1045 | 1063 | 2108 |
| 11/21/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/20/2012 | 1034 | 991 | 2025 |
| 11/19/2012 | 1062 | 640 | 1702 |
| 11/18/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
…Oh.
A patchwork bayou landscape, cypress and pine dressed in spanish moss, that sepulchral lace, slid past our plane as we approached the airport. The alabaster smokestacks of big pharma up The River glow orange from the work-lights. As the swamp climbed to meet us, a sense of comfort and consternation both descended upon me. Oh Louisiana, I’ve missed you, but I could never live you. Continue reading Ode to The Dirty
Gregory Blake 