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Still here

August 4, 2008

It’s been a long time since I’ve been on this blog. I blame this on my instructor asking me to write about my crazy job experience this summer. I’ve been writing that instead of writing this. The good news is I have an amusing currently 70 page story almost ready for submission. The other good news is that I quit that crazy job last week.

I also started a new blog dedicated to my short short fiction at http://32wordstories.wordpress.com.

I’m also working on getting my website up and starting an online publication. Whew. I think it’s nap time…

Next?

January 11, 2008

Well folks, in case you did not know, WordPress has a tracking system for their blogs. That means I can tell how many people have visited in a day and sometimes where they have came from. For example: if you have a wordpress blog and you are signed in, then decide to come visit me – I can see who you are. Sometimes I even get an email address from random people who have posted comments.

And a few times, I have seen something called “next”. At first I thought this was people working the Google on the Internet Machine looking for the tag ‘next’. But I never tag ‘next’ on my blogs.

Tonight, yes it’s Friday night and that’s a whole ‘nother blog, I decided to link back to a ‘next’. Who is ‘next’ you might be asking…I think ‘next’ is a feature of wordpress to explore other posts but who ‘next-ed’ me I’m hoping is not.

The blog title featured a foreign name with the subtext, “A Terrorist Blog”. The ‘blog’ consisted of links, no actually text, from what I could tell were in Arabic. My first thought was – is my government tracking this? Can they see that I linked to ‘a terrorist blog’? Will they come after me? This may sound alarmist to many but I don’t trust my free country and I have a past that although is not scandalous would not allow my future spouse to be a presidential candidate.

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2nd thought was…what the f%$^&$#@! is this? Some kind of terrorist spam? I mean really, that’s what it looked like. And what does that even mean?

I met someone today whose hippy parents who gave her brother an Arabic name. Turns out he also has a private pilot’s license and, surprise, surprise, he was investigated recently.

I tend not to get too into politics but did anyone else hear that they are going to re-release Rambo in the theaters?

This may come off as abstract as a late Friday night post can, but, what the hell is going on? I never feel sure…

one week left

December 3, 2007

ok ok, i haven’t been blogging as i should. but there was the holiday and now i have one week left until the end of the semester. i’m working day and night to finish an art book. pictures coming soon…

I’m baack…

October 9, 2007

Ok, here I am again. What can I say except that I was feeling weird that I’ve had nothing to say for myself recently. That is, I was blogged about by a good friend who visited not too long ago and even did a voice recording (the link is slightly narcissistic, but whatever it’s fun, take a listen) and then another good friend started a blog and I have to admit, WordPress helped hooked me again. You see, I left Typepad because i didn’t want to pay and with Blogger I had no way to track if anyone was coming to the site. And I don’t expect everyone to leave comments but it helps when you are writing to know that someone somewhere out there, is reading. WordPress, it’s free and it tracks and best of all, I can do private blogs readable only by those who have a password- awesome. And Um, yeah…here I am again.