Archive for March, 2010

pag·eant·ry /ˈpædʒəntri/ –noun,plural-ries. 1. spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation. 2. mere show; empty display. 3. pageants collectively; pageants and the performance of pageants. Guys. Seriously. Glenn Beck? Rush Limbaugh? It’s entertainment. It’s shock-jocks in politics. Like Geraldo and Jerry Springer, they don’t say it because it’s true, they say it...
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I’m right about where I should be on EdMo hours (thirty-two, IIRC), way behind where I wanted to be on manuscipt, and working feverishly to remedy that. The fact that I now have three parts in a play that opens next week is hindering that. Guess why blogging isn’t a priority? But I’m having...
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So I won’t be spending the month of April toasting 50 years of the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in this unhappy state of grammatical angst. I’ve spent too much of my scholarly life studying English grammar in a serious way. English syntax is a deep and interesting subject....
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So…now I have two parts in the play. They’re in the same scene. I’m not sure how this is going to work. XD Two hours on EdMo today. I almost finished one whole scene! Whee?
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Starting on day one, of course: 99 80 60 10 0 240 180 30 40 10 40 60 849 divided by 60 = 14.15 hours so far. I think I need to buckle down a bit. Which is going to be hard, as I sort of accidentally volunteered to join a production of Alice...
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