Archive for November, 2009
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Haruki Murakami – kafka on the shore
Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to skip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there – to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Writing
“If you’re doing your job, the reader feels what you felt. You don’t have to tell the reader how to feel. No one likes to be told how to feel about something. And if you doubt that, just go ahead. Try and tell someone how to feel.”
-Alexander Chee.
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_essays/annie_dillard_and_the_writing_life.php
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
School district testing
J was tested for speech today. The way they test is that they keep asking him questions til he gets 7 wrong but the lady testing was amazed because he wasn’t getting anything wrong. She finally arbitrarily stopped questioning because according to her, we “would’ve been there all day”. She stopped him at 97 percentile [...]
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Soccer playoffs
Brandon’s team the Black Knights u12 are in first place and undefeated going into the playoffs. It’s pretty exciting. They won their first game and tonight is their second playoff game at Las Lomas. Hope they win!