Brilliant

The above was created by a fellow writer MFA'er and Wine Nighter ( and Blogger)
She is a talented writer, a sassy dancer, and apparently an accomplished etch-a-sketcher. She's also one of my few writing school friends that is close to my age.

I have said many times that what I believe is wrong with my generation is that we grew up with the sit and spin and the etch a sketch as toys. Spin around till you get dizzy and vomit, or make stairs. No wonder we spent more time in front of the TV watching Sesame Street and Land of the Lost. It was more entertaining than our toys.

I can make stairs. and modern art looking square designs.

Another Writing MFA'er/Wine Nighter draws robots as well as writes kick ass prose on her blog.

what can I do?

I can not draw.
I can not sing.
I can not cook - not really.

I can throw good parties.
I can make people laugh (although sometimes unintentionally)
I can wrap gifts pretty.
I can write out invitations/envelopes/cards pretty.
I give good gift.

I write stories that people have claimed to like reading.

I can interview someone for a job. (since that IS my job)
I've recently discovered that I can make same pretty tasty Hot Wassail.

I can not spell.
I had to double check the spelling of brilliant.
I spelled it wrong the first time.

I can laugh at myself.

Do I have nothing to say?

Now that my classes have started again, and I am reading volumes of stuff, and I have write and be creative every day, I find I have nothing blog about.

Curious, right?

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Word of the Day:

For your further education, I'd like share a word that I came across that I love. I don't know why I love this word. But it feels good on my lips and in my sentences. It has sass and eloquence, all at once. Kinda like me and most of my friends ;-)

Definitions of audacious on the Web:

• invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
• unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
• disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"
• unrestrained by prevailing standards of propriety

It's all about the books

If you know me, you know why this post is personal.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/defending-future-of-books.html