Laurabelle's Blog

Ooops, I didn't realize it's been almost a week since I wrote last. Sorry 'bout that. Well, life has accelerated somewhat in pace, largely due to my losing about 20 hours each week to KCLS. (Well, losing is a bit of an exaggeration. It's more like trading for money and experience.) Due to my more-severe [...]

Yesterday was my first day on the job at the KCLS Service Center in Issaquah. It was a pretty good day overall but very tiring and somewhat surreal as well. The farewell Have a good day at work in the morning and my own little cubicle, with a computer and a phone, made me feel [...]

Not much in particular to blog about. I had a good weekend, but I'm rather wondering when I'll find time to do all the things I have to and/or want to, and what will get dropped when push comes to shove. Internship starts tomorrow morning. In weblog news, I somehow have snagged a link from [...]

Dorothea's recent referral to a certain kind of crisis reminds me of a story that isn't wholly mine to tell. I desperately want to write it, but I can't, not unless I can tell it truly but not literally.

Next Tuesday I start my internship at KCLS! There's not much more to say about this, except that it lasts until the end of December, it's 15 hours per week, it pays just over $20/hr, it's in Issaquah, and it's right up my alley in terms of what I know and what I want to [...]

Continuing the meta-blogging discussion, Steve Himmer argues that a blog is inherently a literary form, with its own characteristics, different from any other:

The inter-blog discussion of oblique writing has morphed into one of truth in blogging. How much skewing of literal truth is acceptable in a personal, autobiographical blog? Obviously there's never going to be any agreement among all the participants (after all, this is blog-world), but it's an interesting subject and perhaps very revealing of personalities.

Last October I went hiking at Mount Rainier with Mary Messall (of AFP fame) and a group of her people from UPS, and it was absolutely gorgeous. I blogged about it, and with Mary’s permission I uploaded a couple of pictures that she took with her digital camera, but I lost the entry when the [...]

I really don't understand myself. This week I had two full days, Tuesday and Thursday, when I had no classes and could have gotten oodles and oodles of stuff done, and I didn't. I got some things done, yes, but never as much as I had on my list. And today I had only an [...]

Until this afternoon, if you asked me why I kept a blog (two blogs, in fact), I would have told you that it was so people would read it. I've just realized that I was wrong.