I’m sorry for the deviation from our multipart discussion. It will continue on schedule. Please don’t mind the aside.
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Despite having ham-handed my way through two years as a freshman comp teacher at a university, along with a semester leading a Creative Writing recitation, I don’t fancy myself a teacher. Although I enjoyed the work and did my best to find interesting assignments that would connect with my students, I failed as many times as I succeeded.
My failures came from looking at teaching as I thought a …

Once upon a time I had my sights set on a Creative Writing teaching job. I thought it was what I wanted to do, but over the years my views have changed. However, all this thinking about e-books lately has gotten me thinking about it again, not about applying, but about the applications themselves. That’s where this multipart article started, although it got much bigger in short order, after I started looking for other opinions. It got big enough to warrant multiple parts, so stay tuned over the next few …

It should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been to my blog before and seen my sci-fi novella or my tech poems that I enjoy science fiction. However, I rarely see many sci-fi movies, if for no other reason than I’d rather spend my time playing games and reading science fiction books. However, today is Labor Day and I had some spare time on my hands, so when my buddy Shawn invited me to go see District 9 with him, I quickly agreed.
I’m not sure if I enjoyed the …