Here I go on the late Monday posting again! After class this morning I met up with my sister to do a little girl shopping and then some lunch. We were very well behaved but now VERY tired so here I go to play catch up!
- Great issue of Poets & Writers magazine arrived in my snail box recently. From one article I pulled this great quote, “Concentration is no longer a given” (Agni editor Sven Birkerts.” Are we all spread to thin? I shall discuss that more.
- Next up. My husband was on his day off the other day which meant he still received phone calls. One was to check their new HD .2 channel (Do I have to explain all that? Is it pertinent?) which is called LiveWell. We watched a bit of it to make sure all the commercials were running well and I was intrigued by a book called The Carb Lovers Diet because it sounded similar to the natural way I eat. It is actually a pretty good book. Good nutrition details although I disagree with doing 1200 calories to start. Think it is better to do about 1600 or more if dieting so you can go down to lower calories later as you lose weight. Also, the before and after pictures are laughable cause the people are obviously just in nicer clothes! But some good solid material in here.
- I have to give a big shout out to Sibling Rivalry press. I am WAY behind on my reading so I just now had a chance to read Sibling’s first chapbook project, the anthology: Fat Hag: A Scandalous Chapbook of Fabulously-Codependent Poetry in which one of my Fat Girl poems appear. I know some of my readers will be like – whoa- not for me but seriously if you have a liberal bent you are gonna enjoy this little chapbook, although as Tel put it, you might need a cold shower afterwards….
- In fun news regarding Folded Word Press I am happy to announce that there are now $5 issues of all Folded Word chapbooks! These don’t have the same cardstock hand made look to them but at $5? Great holiday giving! They are even running a special where if you buy a copy of my book you get a free copy of a “green edition”!!
- And last up would be a really great set of short stories I read in Metazen. I love reading online journals and blogs but I am having to drastically scale back to only subscribing to a few via email instead of my blog reader cause I can’t keep up. That’s mean I’m also going to scale back subscribing to individual blogs as well which I’m not happy about
but I will go to the blogs of those who comment here!
It is already an hour past when I started typing this up and still so much to do today so I say adieu for now!
I read my poem in Fag Hag at an open mic a few months ago and had my friends in shock and awe I had the cojones to read it- censorship upsets me, because we want freedom of speech, but some cannot handle public display of it (for instance this weekend I was told a curse word was complained about at the last OM I performed at, but yet a poet said SOB recently and was not scolded). Okay off the soap box- sorry I opened that can of worms- enjoy the book, because it has prime examples of a wide range of writing, and is fun!
I am exploring more writing sites as I find them. Studied Patty Smith, Jim Carroll and some others these past few days. I do not always care for it all, but it is good to read and learn from others.
Peace JC! Hope you had a great weekend!
I remember you said you read yours at an open mike and I was as impressed then as I am now! Mine is not quite that risque but even so I was a bit prudish about reading it as part of my MFA graduating reading. I did it though!
Weekend was pretty good here, although just graded my first and only paper of the night. Giving an A paper a D because it has too much plagiarism is not how I want to start my evening so no more grading for me tonight. NOPE! Just the TV and cooking up some whole wheat fettucini and turkey meatballs
You are too kind. Plagiarism is stealing. A stolen paper gets a zero. Not just an F, a zero. No wonder you want to eat meat balls!
Yeah there was an F delivered. I just realized I need to be even more diligent to catch these things but learning the software and all has put me at a bit of a loss. I suspect I may have missed 1 or 2 papers that also had serious “borrowing” issues but lesson learned!!!
Laughing at Helen’s comment! but not at how that makes you feel, Jessie.
sigh.
Will anxiously wait to hear what you have to say about being spread too thin and concentration levels.
I thought the folded word press idea was a great one! How cool!
And the stories were fabulous. Thank you for sharing those too. You always give us something good.
Oh . .. wanted to tell you that I would be interested in a photographing post too. Just in case you are up for that sometime. Was it Chef E who was interested too?
Lastly . . .you really don’t have to stop by my blog Jessie. Really. My feelings won’t be hurt a bit. There is just so much time in the day and you have too much to do. Okay? Okay!
I know you’d never be upset if I didn’t stop by but I really like that blogging is a community. I like the different voices I have a chance to interact with so I definitely want to still stop by your blogs from time to time. Just, perhaps, not as often as everyday!
I’m already feeling a little better not having google reader open today but the day is stillll going by wayyyyy too fast!
Oh Deb- even I come over to your blog and read, I just do not always have much to say (really?LOL); its good we get a taste of variety in all the various works that is out there, she is a busy working girl now he he. I agree with Helen, should have gotten a zero. You should have made a point. I told my son back when I home schooled him and he tried to rewrite a paper out of a book, no way Jose, and DO NOT do it in college, or the teacher will never respect you as a your own writer.
Interested in photography info, not that my stuff is that great, but now and then a good one stands out!
I’m definitely going to do that post on photography and submitting photography very soon!
I think I’m going to have to make a handout about properly citing since apparently the book wasn’t enough for GOOD information. I told them all I was checking the papers. Guess that wasn’t enough of fear either
I like Metazen – the stories are always great.
When I am dieting – I try to cut back on ‘treats’, have smaller portions and try to hit the 1000-1200 mark for calorie intake.
Portion size is probably my biggest issue. I, for so may years, felt I had to clean my plate so I’m trying to make myself just leave a bite once in a while
I know what you mean about being overwhelmed by too much to read. I find the easiest are the ones that come into my email, like yours. Those I read, but the ones on my Reader, by the time I get to it, are too many. I try and skim the titles, and drop in on the ones that sound interesting.
And, yep, a zero for the plagiarist. Technically, as plagiarizing is stealing, I tell my kids they can get arrested, but that colleges usually just expel offenders. Amazing the ones who still try.
Hope you have a relatively quiet week
It just amazes me when I see the plagiarism because it looks like so much work to find stuff to pad your paper. Why not just turn in a short paper? I’m hoping all my Facebook and Twitter friends continue to post links to good stuff so I’m not missing out on anything now that I took everything out of blog reader for now. Never thought I’d regret becoming somewhat popular (at least blog wise)
JC – did you see what you called F/H in your post – Fat Hag! Hahaha.. too many three letter f-words? Seriously, that was my first chapbook designing job ever – but I think it came out as a fun little book. The cover photo still cracks me up. I found it surfing Facebook and Flickr. Ask the owner, and sometimes they are like, heck yeah, use my photo!
I love that kind of happy accident! Yeah, I’d be happy if people wanted to use my photography. Why not!