Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Life

First you see it…

I’m having a sort of weird time with the migration of geoffreylong.com. I managed to get everything moved over to the new server, get the DNS entries updated, and then on campus tonight I successfully installed Movable Type 3.2 on the new Dreamhost account while – no joke – I watched a Bollywood version of […]

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Big in Japan.

So I’m back from my Asian excursion, which has me a little blue. It was really hard to leave Laura at the airport, since I won’t get to see her in person again for somewhere between two and four months. Given the amount of stuff wating for me in my inbox, though, I know I’m […]

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Stranger in a Strange Land.

I’m wrting this while sitting on a futon in the middle of my girlfriend Laura‘s apartment. This sentence is not in and of itself worthy of a Joey Lawrence-style “Whoa!” until I tack on the detail that said apartment is in Ise, Japan. Say it with me: “Whoa!” I’m having a wonderful time, and recording […]

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The quotable Brad.

“Obscurity is the new fame.” – Brad Graham

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I am the very model of a cartoon individual.

Guess where I spent my Friday? More details to follow – right now I have to pack my bags to fly to Austin! I live a magic life.

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O. M. G.

See, this – this right here – this is the kind of stuff that drives me insane. Last weekend I did all my school reading first, and didn’t get to almost any of the big projects currently hanging over my head. This weekend I decided to reverse the process, spending all my time instead on […]

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Apologies.

Sorry I’ve been so cranky on this blog lately. Life is still (for the most part) excellent – I’m teaching a class on Gaiman tomorrow, how bad can life be? – it’s just that I’ve been dealing with a lot of crap lately that makes me feel like I’m spinning my wheels instead of getting […]

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The truth comes out.

So there’s been another group of miners trapped underground, this time in Mexico: SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico, Feb. 20 — Rescue workers dug through about 500 yards of fallen rock in efforts to rescue 65 workers who were trapped early Sunday when a gas explosion collapsed the shaft of the coal mine here. Officials […]

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Wish me luck.

I have finally kicked the Plague of Much Deathness (TM), but now the catching-up is kicking my ass. Hopefully I don’t get sick again from all the stress of trying to catch up from the first round. I’ve been up since 6:45 this morning and everywhere I look there’s something else that has to happen. […]

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This can be over any time now.

At first it was an aggravation. Then it became an annoyance. Now it’s becoming a little disturbing. I’m on day four of 100+ temperatures. I woke up this morning feeling pretty good, but suddenly and abruptly convinced that my room was tilting backwards. When I got up, I started to stumble around and had a […]

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