author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

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actually writing blog: Into the Slush: June 2009
2009-06-30 17:17 CDT

This morning, whilst scribbling today's date in my Morning Pages notebook, I suddenly realized that June in fact only has 30 days in it and not, say, the 42 or so I must have assumed. Plenty of time to get a story ready for its first submission! Or, y'know . . . .

Oooh, Shiny!: On Music That Does What It's Probably Supposed To Do
2009-06-30 13:13 CDT

"Homesick", by Kings of Convenience. I never remember it between hearings. Then it'll play unexpectedly on the stereo in a cafe or tea house, and my reaction is always the same: "Goodness, that sounds like Simon & Garfunkle. Wait--this is that song, isn't. . . .

actually writing blog: On Residual Income Schemes
2009-06-29 15:15 CDT

W00t! My first eleven cents from eHow.com! Go me! ...that's all.

Metroblogging Denver: Sita Comes to Denver to Sing the Blues
2009-06-26 15:15 CDT

If you, like Roger Ebert, have heard about the intensely indie oddball feature-length animation Sita Sings the Blues, then you don’t need me to tell you what “the greatest breakup story ever told” is all about or why it’s such a phenomenon. And if you’ve been sighing over the unfortunate copyright circumstances that make this film [...]

actually writing blog: On Desired Bookburnings In Wisconsin
2009-06-17 21:21 CDT

Apparently there's this elderly group of self-described Christians in West Bend, Wisconsin, who feel that the presence of non-anti-homosexual literature in their local library ("Baby Be-Bop, a young adult novel in which a boy, struggling with his homosexua . . . .

actually writing blog: Null Update: "Oh, Nevermind."
2009-06-16 12:12 CDT

Back to normal now, with a side-order of "WTF?!". Null has no broken ribs and was probably never blind in the first place. All we know for sure is, he had a scary respiratory attack which responded well to oxygen therapy. Apparently the vet at Alpine disc . . . .

actually writing blog: Null Update, Day 2
2009-06-15 9:09 CDT

Because Twitter sucks as a medium for Getting The Whole Story. Day 1, by the way, was spent in barely holding ourselves together. So this is Day 2. And here's the story. It has nothing to do with writing, by the way, except possibly why it may be hard to . . . .

actually writing blog: Writing As Work, Writing As Play
2009-06-12 16:16 CDT

Went to my usual bimonthly writing group Wednesday, and, as sometimes happens when there's no manuscript for critique in a given classtime, the conversation turned from commenting on each other's in-class writing to sharing with each other our writing proc . . . .

Metroblogging Denver: Thursdays with Abbondanza (week 2)
2009-06-12 0:00 CDT

Thursdays are CSA Pick-up Days! Abbondanza Organic Seeds & Produce is a local CSA, or “Community Supported Agriculture” farm. CSA membership fees in the winter and spring help support the farm, and members pick up a share of the produce each week during harvest. That’s CSA 101. And this is CSA Week 2! (What happened to Week [...]

Metroblogging Denver: Things to do this weekend: Attend a "Hands On Social Media" event
2009-06-10 17:17 CDT

Direct from email, here’s an event announcement especially for women in the Denver/Boulder area: Microsoft Office and Office Live are partnering with social media platform, Kirtsy, to organize and host a series of free training sessions for women who are looking for an introductory crash course in social media and tech. The sessions will take place [...]

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