small pond

I'm still around, sort of

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 03:22:09 GMT

If you were only connected to me here, and figured from my lack of posts that I'd given up this site, the fact is that I just never managed to leave LJ when everyone else did, and I got tired of cross-posting from there to here when no one was commenting on my posts in either place anyhow ... but I still come here to read friends' journals.

Hope you are surviving 2020.

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I've been away ... anybody miss me?

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:12:07 GMT

So, I was cross-posting my LiveJournal stuff here, then wondered why I was littering cyberspace with duplicates of my inane ramblings, and stopped. I assume no one is really missing being able to read them here, since my LiveJournal posts are never friends-locked. Am I wrong?

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Movie Five

Mon, 16 May 2016 00:59:10 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

I was looking for a "Friday Five"- type exercise to do yesterday, but my usual sources didn't yield any current question sets that I liked. Their archives, however, were full of good ones I hadn't done. Here's a cinema-themed set from April 29th.

( Scene a Good Film Lately? )

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The Distracted Woman's Daybook (40)

Thu, 12 May 2016 00:55:09 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

( New 'Daybook' )

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Cartoon Five

Mon, 02 May 2016 09:32:59 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

Sorry for copping out with yet another meme (which is yet another Friday Five, completed my usual few days late). I couldn't resist this one, though -- it's about cartoons!

( Click for it! )

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Shakespeare Five (part the third)

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:51:07 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

How could I have missed these last Friday? The LiveJournal version of the Friday Five *also* posted Shakespeare questions!

( Click for my answers )

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Shakespeare Five (part 2 of 2)

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:55:01 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

Six years ago, the Friday Five blog I sometimes refer to in these pages posted its first set of Shakespeare-themed questions on the Friday closest to April 23rd (the Bard's alleged b'day). Shakespeare questions didn't become an annual FF tradition, but there *were* subsequent sets last year and this year, both of which I've answered in the blog (2015's is at LJ / 2016's is here at DW).

And just for fun, I'll now go back and try that original set from 2010. Ready? ( Click! )

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Shakespeare Five (part 1 of 2)

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:48:06 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

This week's Friday Five honors April 23rd as "the generally assumed birthday of William Shakespeare, based on records of his baptism and the traditions of the time." Like last year's 4/23 -themed set (which I answered here), the questions are all based on quotations from the Bard.

Ready? ( Click! )

(Click here for part 2.)

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Job saved ... for now

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:57:30 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

I definitely owe an update to anyone who sent positive energy in my direction after I posted about my latest crisis. Last Thursday, I talked to the guy who's one step up from the Schedule Maker at College #1, and he expressed much sympathy -- not just the feelings kind, but the moral kind -- for me, as well as some embarrassment on behalf of the college for implementing changes so cavalierly. There didn't seem to be much he could do to help save my employment status, but he said he'd try something ...

and it worked, whatever it was. I am good for Fall: it's a slightly reduced course load, but at least it's scheduled for days on which I am actually available to teach it. So I shall not be immediately cast into the streets. ;-)

Thanks to any and all for their prayers and/or good wishes.

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The Distracted Woman's Daybook (39)

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:50:01 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

( New 'Daybook' )

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Another Friday Five

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 08:42:02 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

So, I started another Friday Five yesterday. Took me a day to finish, but here you go. The theme is "How do you do that?"

( Click! )

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Up in the air

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 08:40:18 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

So, I may be losing a job. This would be one of the three that I paste together to make my living, and ironically it's the one I thought was the least insecure (College #1 -- been there 22 years). Not sure what to do about that. Okay, obviously, I have to get another job. But how?

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Saturday Night’s All Right for Writing About

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:45:43 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

This week's Friday Five (well, one of them, anyhow) had the theme "Saturday Night’s All Right for Writing About."

( Click to read about the Saturdays in my life )

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Things beginning with "C"

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:35:51 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

A meme from wellinghall, who did it here.

( Click! )

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The Distracted Woman's Daybook (38)

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:51:37 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

( New 'Daybook' )

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The Distracted Woman's Daybook (37)

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:43:20 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

( New 'Daybook' )

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The Distracted Woman's Daybook (36)

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:41:39 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

( New 'Daybook' )

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The Distracted Woman's Daybook (35)

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:26:36 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

( New 'Daybook' )

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"Karamazov" News

Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:46:34 GMT

I do believe I am starting to get interested in this story! I admit I had to re-start the book, as it had been so long since I'd read any that I had forgotten certain particulars needed to resume (with any hope of comprehension) at my former stopping place. But this time I can't seem to put it down. More anon ...

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

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Prayer

Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:40:45 GMT

So here's a cartoon that kind of gets at my ambivalence regarding petitionary prayers.

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

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New Years Meme 2015

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:33:27 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

Oops! This meme, which I fill out every year as December wanes, is coming to you a couple days late (though I did start it in 2015). Longtime readers with eidetic memories will notice that I have eliminated perhaps four of the regular questions; they were either ones to which I could never think of an answer ("What song lyric best sums up your year?") or simply ones that I always found stupid ("With whom did you talk on the phone the most this year?"). I've also added a question about live performances (since they've become a bigger part of my life), and one about weddings (since I actually attended one).

Ready? ( Click! )

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Trying something out

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:50:55 GMT

So, as you see -- you who see it, that is -- I'm going to experiment with cross-posting my LiveJournal posts to this journal. If I get comments here, I'll know you're reading me here, and that may help me decide eventually whether to give up the LJ, keep it as a forwarding service, continue double-posting, or accept that my few readers prefer me over there, even with all the ads (in which case, I wouldn't bother with this journal).

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The Distracted Woman's Daybook (34)

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:47:16 GMT

(Crossposted from LiveJournal)

( New 'Daybook' )

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Livejournal ads

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:18:26 GMT

Starting to hate those Livejournal ads. I wonder who would still read me if I moved over here . . .?

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Announcement

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:21:15 GMT

Hi, all. I used to be known around these parts (and everywhere else online) as camillofan, an online ID that, after 15 years as a netizen, I gave up in 2012. Alas, I forgot when I deleted camillofan's old (and mostly unused) DW account that I'd lose access to all the DW journals I had permission to read under that name. So I made a new account here that I still only use to read things, though not as many as before.

Maybe someday I'll write in this spot, but for now I do my actual blogging over at LiveJournal.

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