Wednesday, April 15, 2020
I didn’t get the big fellowship either. For perhaps the first time, the quarantine/shelter in place situation has kind of gotten into my brain. Between the hopes getting dashed for an exit out of Nevada via a sweet waterfront home to the idea that it might have been partially funded and with a tremendous honor […]
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When we first moved to Las Vegas, we lived in a very $$$ new area of the greater metro area. It is called Mountain’s Edge because it was literally smushed up against the edge of the valley. We lived in a gated community that, judging by the sheer number of Latter-Day Saints temples within walking […]
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Plans are such silly things. Plans are a tiny prayer that you have any idea what the future holds and the hubris to put actual mental effort against that assumption. The universe hates a spoiler. This entire year, nay, this entire last four years, has been Han Solo walking down a corridor saying “I’ve got […]
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I was a weirdo at the beginning of March — I have spent so much time with my head buried in how pandemics work, how diseases spread, how viruses replicate, how to build the perfect pandemic, etc, that as soon as I saw the virus leave China, I started having panic attacks. I was supposed […]
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Hello from our new normal. Hello, person on the other side of the screen. I am on this side. You are on that side. We are keeping each other safe this way. Thank you for keeping yourself safe and for keeping everyone around you safe by doing the right thing and staying in your homes. […]
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Sunday, December 22, 2019
Part of my PhD funding involves building experience and authority in the literary publishing world. Or, you know, such one may contrive through editing a literary journal. My first year in doctoral studies were supplemented by a role as assistant fiction editor — and my second year, I got a promotion to fiction editor. I […]
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Monday, December 16, 2019
The semester has ended — grades are due today, but because I’m a plan ahead type, I got them in yesterday. This might be the first time ever that I’ve managed to do that before the last possible moment, so I’m chalking this up to a win, and also the fact that I only took […]
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
If I hadn’t been opposed to digging in distant fields and trenches, I might have become an archaeologist. It turns out, I hate sweating and manual labor. Probably lucky for us all that I didn’t go that route — as it turns out, archaeologists are usually funded by trust money inherited by grandparents who made […]
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Going back to grad school has been both terrible and great for my ego. My classmates — most of whom are between 25 and 30 years old — often tell me that they thought I was 27 or 28 years old until they discover that I’m, well, almost double that. New MFAs who come in […]
I got back into the pottery studio today. I know these slippery hot days of summer are zooming by faster than I want them to, but it feels positively decadent to be back at the wheel, reluctant hump of porcelain that refuses to center, the strain on the lower back muscles, the goopy white slip […]
