OMGSZ IT IS ANOTHER UPDATE!!!!

[tocryabout]

I had to break one giant ream of action into two chapters, even though I usually prefer to have them all much the same length (this lets me pretend I am Dickens, all getting paid a penny a word and published serially). So today we have Chapter 9, Under the Microscope [way to put the wrong link in, ed.], and in a week or two you should have another shortish chapter.

Words OpenOffice didn't know:
keepaway
BJ's
disruptors
philia

Words I'm surprised it did know:
Manichee

[Read from the beginnning.]

Comments

[ion-bond.livejournal.com]

Dickens didn't get paid by the word! He just wrote like that!

*sigh*

Poor Dickens.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

Really? Somebody told me he got paid by the word, so I always thought that was true. Poor Dickens indeed. The quirkiest narrative voice of them all, but do the literary critics these days appreciate him? NO.

[ion-bond.livejournal.com]

It's a widely-believed rumor. I did a poll on my livejournal for Dickens' birthday -- "was Charles Dickens paid by the word?" -- and eleven of the twelve people who voted said "yes." And I have a smart f'list.

[ion-bond.livejournal.com]

that rather charitably assumes grad school is for learning things....

I look at it as a form of stalling.

[ion-bond.livejournal.com]

Awsome! Something to which I, an undergraduate, can only look forward.

Or I could get out now, before it's too late, I guess. But in that case, I'd have to find a job.