Nothing

After finally having caught up with so many things left undone while I was gone, it was back to the normal grind. Emphasis on grind. (But then it may be because my mind has not really left Tacloban.)

And so after doing everything I could for the day, I was left with nothing quite that significant accomplished or to accomplish. So I Googled “nothing,” and found this site on nothing.

My band

Johnny Panic tagged me with this meme. I thought, why not? Here goes:

Follow these quick, easy steps to make your own band:

01. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

02. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

03. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

04. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post. Also, pass it along in your own journal because it’s more amusing that way.

All summer disease…

I’m still having holiday hangovers. Perhaps because that was the first real holiday I’ve had in several years. The previous times I visited my folks, I always brought work with me (not that I wanted to) to be done during the lull between Christmas and New Year.

This time around, I still brought work with me — but mostly things I had to do online. With me sharing a dial-up connection with my sister (meaning, I could only work whenever she wasn’t using it), and the connection somewhat slow for my needs, I decided not to sweat it — working only on what had to be done immediately, like replies to email messages, etc.

And what a good thing that turned out to be. I had lots of time to just lay back and relax. So my holidays was really spent

Hmmm…

I’ve been wondering why my post “To Ph.D. or to M.F.A., that is the question…,” and other related entries about a Ph.D. or an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (see here and here), has been appearing quite often on my Reads sidebar. When I checked my Sitemeter account, I found that a lot of readers (mostly from the USA) have been referring to it for whatever reason. Quite often, too, that it now ranks third in a Google search for “ph.d. or m.f.a.”

I just hope that that post has been a helpful one for readers.