archives for Tuesday 20 March 2007
someone else is a copywhore too
Tuesday 20 March 2007 | I like a cookie
In researching Tartarus, where they are apparently very, very fond of us, we find the following breathlessly hysterical copy: The imagination of the community glimmers over the surface of the Town Lake, a formerly dry riverbed that now provides miles of natural beauty. [Let's not think too hard about how it got there....] Tartarus learned [...]
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our very own spreadsheet
Tuesday 20 March 2007 | someone left a cookie
Fortunately, we have a very brainy blonde-bombshell godsister (actually we have two)—and this one used to be an international project manager (and has been the extremely successful project manager of two small boys for a few years now). She created specially for us (!) this fabulous and reassuring spreadsheet, and we are taking it and [...]
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officially
Tuesday 20 March 2007 | I like a cookie
Completely freaking out. A department secretary from the State School just left a voicemail that “our poets are very fond of your work…very, very fond of it,” apparently so fond that they would like to admit me. So the backup has now weighed in, though I really don’t at all want to live in Tartarus. [...]
the plot thickens (or thins)
Tuesday 20 March 2007 | I like a cookie
So we’ve now been flat-out rejected by Austin and Houston. (A prophet is not without honor save in her own home state.) The State School seems to be wandering around in the desert endlessly contemplating its options. We bravely turned down San Diego yesterday. Leaving Tucson, and Hawaii. And entertainingly enough, Hawaii wants to know [...]
