Why Querying and Job Searching Simultaneously is Like Being Repeatedly Punched in the Face

/ April 23, 2013/ job searching, musings, query, querying, unemployment/ 4 comments

With the exception of a few odd jobs, yours truly has been out of work since October 2011. For someone who has been working since 16 1/2, this is horrible*. The uncertainty of where the next paycheck is coming from, whether or not health insurance is happening, the meaningless-ness of TGIF. I’m sort of used to it by now and

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The Importance of Unplugging

/ April 2, 2012/ damn you internet, dating myself, musings/ 11 comments

Writers today have a lot more challenges than just what is on the television. In an age where you can be connected to the internet through your computer, phone, e-reader, and probably a hundred more things I’m forgetting, it’s difficult to remember a time when this wasn’t the case*. With the exception of a few hours a week, all of

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The Importance of Detail

/ February 7, 2012/ learning from television, musings, writing/ 8 comments

One of my favorite shows in the last decade was PRISON BREAK. If you never heard of it, here’s the blurb from imdb.com: Due to a political conspiracy an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to

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The Question of Knowing Our Future and The Future of Us

/ January 30, 2012/ books, dating myself, facebook, high school alicia, life, musings, questions, reluctant townie/ 5 comments

It’s pretty safe to say that at some point in our life, we would give our baby toes to glimpse into our future or hop into the DeLorean to change some instance in our past. Hell, Bestie Danielle and I usually play the “I should’ve” game once a season. So when I read the premise of THE FUTURE OF US

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