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RESEARCH-CREATION & SCHOLARSHIP

This is where I post all of my research-creation and scholarship in progress. I manage the distribution of this content via Patreon. I invite you to become a Patron to support my independent research and creations so I can continue to bring new ideas and thoughts into the world. 

books

I was just updating my list of books on LibraryThing and I reached my free-account limit of 200 books. Now the dilemma: do I pay the $25 for a lifetime account? Is this a service I need? Sometimes it seems like a valuable tool (especially since I have an associative...

this is the 21st century, right?

I got my notice from Netflix in the mail today that my plan is now $1 cheaper, and I can watch up to 9 hours of movies on my PC. Unexpected bonus! When I logged in to my account, though, I find out that not only is it not compatible with macs, it uses the new DRM-ed...

swampy

When I was getting coffee this morning, one of the women in the office went to the sink to dump out a big bucket of water. I asked her what it was from, and she said it's from the dehumidifier in her office. It has a 2-gallon capacity, and she empties it out twice a...

job search hell

When I started graduate school last fall, I was still working full time, about 30 hours/week. I was also doing a 10 hour/week assistantship for the department and taking two classes. It was hard. When I was at work, all I could think about was what class work I hadn’t...

Garbage Paper

Today I had planned to revise a paper from several years ago to submit for a scholarship. The topic is to be anything related to Florida history. When I opened my paper about Disney, nostalgia, and Celebration, this is what I found (this is the truncated version - the...

MacBook strangeness

I've had my MacBook for about 9 months; I've had some problems, but I'm sure not as many as others have. About one month after I got it, the computer froze and the hard drive stopped spinning. I held down the power button, and after it shut down I couldn't restart it....

Statement of Purpose

I decided to start this blog because I feel like I need to write more. Class writing assignments, while challenging, are not enough. I felt the need to write on topics of my choosing: book reviews, short essays, etc....things that will help me when it's thesis-writing...

Patron-only Content

In this sidebar you’ll find links to archival posts projects past. I’ve made them available here for Patrons.

In the Works in Progress Photosets, you can see pictures that I take while I’m working on an object. These are especially interesting for cross-stitches and collages.

I also found a few posts from a short-lived and completely anonymous blog that I had in grad school called Virtual Intelligentsia. I didn’t tell anyone about this! Imagine the brand I could have been building! The Noughties were truly a different time.

Coming soon:
The Putt Plug Mini Golf Review Archive is the mini-golf review blog that I wrote from 2008 (?) to 2010.

The HustList is a blog that I had briefly when I was very stressed out about money and feeling stuck in a low-paying job. Whomst among us can relate.

HustList

Next community goal

While we’re building the community on Patreon, I will be continuing to read & write my way through the backlog of scholarship that I’ve accumulated AND I’ll be using Patron pledges to actively build the BIPOC section of the Picurious Vintage Photo Collection.