Updates

As you can see, I changed the appearance of the blog. (I even created the header! I took the picture, hehe.) I tried to make it more organized and clean:
My writing and Video Projects have been added as sub-pages of About Me.
A page for Polls have been created.
Instead of filling the sidebar with links, I [...]

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Updates & a Sad Old Love Story

I haven’t been updating the last couple of days because I’ve been busy improving b a good read. Now I’ll be concentrating on revamping Sambgood–appropriate, I think, since WordPress.Com also changed their appearance. I’ll post up new material in between the work.
Until then, I highly recommend checking out Maggie Stiefvater’s short fiction “The Haunts We [...]

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Tuesday To-Do List

I’ve been fairly productive the last couple of days.  I paid bills (most of them), inquired about employment opportunities on campus (not successful), confirmed my volunteer duties for the next couple of weeks (exciting), jump-started my social life, and cleaned.
Oh! And I made a Twitter account! Well, technically, I made it during Spring semester for [...]

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Back from Overseas

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world… The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way…people look at reality, then you can change it.
—James Baldwin
I can [...]

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Passing Notes

I once had a plastic Star Wars pencil pouch.  One side was black, with young Anakin Skywalker and Padme in the forefront; the other, clear with stains of graphite and color.  I don’t have it anymore.  When I was about 11 or 12 and still living in New Jersey, I threw it out because of [...]

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Penguins (Dictionary) for a Rainy Day

Reminder of the Day: Say no to procrastination
Today is one of those days where you don’t want to do anything. You don’t want to wake up, go to class, do work, or be responsible. Even the rainy, foggy, dark weather begs you to go away and stay inside your room. Siren calls—which [...]

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In Tune with Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day:
Onerous (AH-nuh-rus) Adj.

involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome
having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages

Merriam-Webster Online and I are on the same page today: living proves to be an onerous task.  Of course, I brought all the hardships on myself; I shouldn’t have procrastinated.  Because I did, I now have papers [...]

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Shall I Make Time to Write? thoughts from two shoulders

I have heard it; I have read it. The message appears again and again: You can make time to write.

Is there truth in those words?

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A Drop in the Ocean: bits from the last few in-active months

Ever have one of those urges—a need to do something until it itches every cell in your body into an excitable frenzy? So urging that any sentence that comes from your mouth makes no sense (or, if you’re lucky, just a little sense)?
I have one of those. Right now. I want to [...]

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Personal Book Lists–only a portion

Read in the Past Month:

Her Wild American Self (M. Evelina Galang)
Children of the Forest (Kevin Duffy)
Robot Visions (Isaac Asimov)

Unfortunately, it’s a short list.  It makes me sad. I really want to put more time into reading, especially since I now have a huge library and a small bookstore within a couple minutes walk.
To Finish:

A Street [...]

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