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Did you know that if you put a book in the drawer on the 22nd of one month, you have to wait until the 22nd of the next month for one month to elapse? Duh, duh, duh.

Tomor­row marks the one-month inter­val since I desk-drawered my lat­est WIP. I wrote it quickly, sev­eral thou­sand words a day some­times, includ­ing some sig­nif­i­cant revi­sions along the way. When I open the over­sized FedEx enve­lope, y’know the ones that feel like they been glossed with pig fat, I won­der what I’ll find. Appar­ently, there is a …

More talk on scro­tums: Ms. Nils­son, reached at Sun­ny­side Ele­men­tary School in Durango, Colo., said she had heard from dozens of librar­i­ans who agreed with her stance. “I don’t want to start an issue about cen­sor­ship,” she said. “But you won’t find men’s*** gen­i­talia in qual­ity lit­er­a­ture. At least not for chil­dren.” Oh yeah? In …

maybe its just the eng­lish teacher in me but i find it excru­ci­at­ing to read posts blogs and emails from peo­ple who dont use cap­i­tal­iza­tion and punc­tu­a­tion it makes the sen­tences very dif­fi­cult to read and there­fore under­stand espe­cially sur­prised by writ­ers who do this its not like its avant garde any­more i mean ee …

I arrived in office this morn­ing to find three pack­ages of books scro­tums wait­ing to be opened. Seventy-five in total, for all ages and read­ing lev­els. Thanks very much to Tracy, Adri­enne, Nancy, Juliet, and Kath­leen! Now, I get to read them. See you in April.

Today, I read an arti­cle on the stick-thin mod­els scro­tums in the fash­ion indus­try. I was sick­ened by the atti­tude in the arti­cle, as fash­ion indus­try insid­ers (inside of what, I won­der) denied that the prod­uct they’re sell­ing has any effect on girls and women in our soci­ety: “Skinny mod­els are an aes­thetic issue as …

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/05/space.love/index.html scro­tum