Owner: The World in the Satin Bag URL:http://wisb.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:59:28 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: A YA fantasy blog novel by Shaun M. Duke.
"James is your typical eleven year old outcast--smart, logical, and geeky--until his best friend is inadvertently sucked into another world. Will he be able to save her from the world in the satin bag?"
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New Design and Writing 2007-09-04 23:08:00 Some of you who visit here may have noticed that the look of my blog has changed. This is only the start of the changes for it. I've decided to stick with Blogger for now. I imagine that while WordPress might have some amazing features, such features will end up being a part of Blogger anyway, and the idea that I can edit and change just about anything for free on Blogger is more important to me than having some of the neat features of WordPress under restriction.First and foremost, what do you think thus far? I've added the left hand sidebar and was trying to figure out how to add another bar so that the left is identical to the right. This was hopefully to reduce the length of all the information so it is a little more accessible for people. Does it look okay? I don't want it to be incredibly cluttered and hopefully it isn't that way. The idea is so that things look a little smoother without a bunch of annoying buttons and junk or an endless sidebar.What other improvement
Acknowledgments and Such 2007-09-02 14:49:00 Now that WISB is finally finished it's time for one of those long winded thank you posts.First, I'd like to thank anyone who has been reading this blog and the novel, even if you have never left a comment. I do check my sitemeter and there are several people who apparently stick around for a while and return at other times. Thank you for coming by and please leave a message some time.Second, I'd like to thank Mr. Bramage for his support of the project. While I haven't heard from you in a long while, I still must thank you for keeping me writing in the beginning.I'd like to thank Alex of SmackJeeves for drawing all those lovely pictures including the one that is in this post and for being a one man cheering squad. I hope to see more of your art soon! Make me a new banner! And a logo! And something else that's pretty!Next I'd like to thank Imelda, Eva, and Calamire from TW for pushing me on to finish the novel even through the hardest times when my brain wanted to quit. Wo
Chapter Thirty One: Of Captain Norp and the Last Journey 2007-09-01 23:16:00 They made camp the following afternoon after following the Nar River south and crossing a wooden bridge wide enough for two carriages to pass at the same time. Iliad guessed they had traveled a good sixty miles; James knew it would be several days before they reached Sem’pur. Along the riverbed they washed the filth from their clothes until the fabric no longer stunk. Triska took a moment to sprinkle the petals of little green flowers on their clothes, and before long all the stench of the sewage lines were lost. The first night proved eventful. Nobody had asked James about his hand, and he had made no effort to discuss it. Even Triska, who normally seemed aware of injuries at all times, being a healer and all, was oblivious. James sat in the dirt silently. “You came for me,” Laura said, cool and collected, looking at James with her bright green eyes. He nodded. “That’s amazing.” “I do Read more:Captain
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Chapter Thirty: Of Dark Interests 2007-09-01 18:29:00 James sat on one of the ridges along the edge of the octagon. None of the others bothered sitting. Darl took a position behind Bourlinch as if ready at any moment to beat the memories out. James watched the water as it flowed down the tunnel off somewhere unknown. He was getting used to the smell now. It had easily been twenty minutes of them setting around as Bourlinch argued with himself over which tunnel was the correct one. At one point Darl suggested they just split up into each of them, but that idea was quickly shot down as Iliad explained how unlikely it would be that they would find a way out doing that. James wondered what would happen to them if they never found a way out of the tunnels. Even if they were forced to turn back he wasn’t sure he could trust Bourlinch’s memory. What if he forgets? We’ll be stuck here forever. Darl spoke in hushed whispers to himself. James could tell they were angry, bitter words, each phrase coming Read more:Chapter
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Point of View Gone Haywire 2007-09-01 01:37:00 It has been coming to my attention more and more lately that it is becoming acceptable in the literary world to completely ignore all the little rules that have been laid down in regards to POV. Why has this become a good thing to do? I don't get it. One of the biggest rules of writing, well, perhaps not a rule but a big know-how, is not to switch tenses. Not only am I seeing this in young writers--which is probably rather common--but also in professional, published literature. A novel I recently reviewed went from first person past to first person present, and even dared to go from first person past to third person past in the middle of a chapter. What exactly is spawning this sudden change? It's destroying literature I think. Has anyone else discovered this issue in any particular books they've seen?
Official Notice of Nothing Whatsoever 2007-08-29 20:11:00 Alright all, I've sat around arguing with myself for the past week and a half now about whether to jump to WP or not. SQT has given me some great advice on what I could do. As of this moment I am doing nothing whatsoever. I've searched the net for an easy template to fiddle with that has a built in top bar (which you apparently can have with Blogger and which I can actually create alternate blogger accounts to go with those links), but quite honestly, it's all a lot of work I'm not willing to do for a blog, at least not right now with my schedule and with all that is going on.So I have some questions.Is anyone really all that bothered with the layout now? Are there things you would like to see improved? These are serious questions. It won't hurt my feelings if you mention what you don't like. In fact, I would appreciate it if someone said somethingOne thing I was considering is using a 3 column version of this particular template, but at the same time I think such a template w Read more:Nothing
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Chapter Twenty Nine: Of Journeys in the Dark 2007-08-26 18:02:00 “Marked?” Pea said, showing remarkable control of his voice. James nodded. “Assuming this is true, this is a horrendously negative turn of events. Marked…by Luthien. We have to presume that Luthien is reading his future too. Which means that Luthien must know this creature.” “No,” James said. “I don’t think Luthien knew him, probably never even heard of him. Most likely anyway.” “The laws of magic…” “I know the laws.” In fact, he did know the laws, most of them at least. He had read them in the etiquette book. They were more general understandings that laws. Nobody had set down the rules of how magic worked. It had always been there. In a strange way, James thought of magic scientists casting out theories, digging up evidence, and doing experiments to prove some point. “Magic cannot be used on the unknown.” “Which is precisely why Luthien must know this man.” Read more:Chapter
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The Argument Continues (with some tips thrown in) 2007-08-25 00:08:00 First, because this whole thing about WordPress and Blogger might annoy the crap out of you, or bore you, I'm going to give away some interesting links and information.First is the TW Blog. I've become a weekly contributor there, partly because I've become a mod at the TeenageWriters site and partly because I'm editing their first anthology. I do the writing tips/discussion type stuff. Two posts of interest to anyone that reads this blog would be The Golden Rule and Enemy #1: Info-dump. The former is about none other than that infamous "show, don't tell" rule and the latter is quite obvious I think. Check them out because I think they are rather helpful, and perhaps if you have any comments I'd love to hear them.Another thing of interest is that I have volunteered and been accepted to help do book reviews with SQT at her F & SF Review Blog. She's becoming very active in the SF/F community and trying to get her foot in the review door by asking for ARC's and the like. Read more:Argument
Start Wars and Write Better 2007-08-22 21:08:00 Yes, the title is intended to make you blink twice. I wrote it that way on purpose. How can wars be good for writing? When they are "Word Wars".So, what exactly is a Word War?A Word War is essentially a no pressure contest between two or more individuals, all writers for obvious reasons, who decide on a set amount of time, stop everything, and write. Technically speaking, the person who has the most words at the end wins, but really, if you write 100 words and your partner writes 1,000, it doesn't really matter at all. Why? Because you wrote something!Sessions can be 5, 10, 15, 20, even 30 minutes. If you're brave you'll go for an hour, but I recommend doing two 20 minute sessions with a 5-10 minute break in the middle.How are Word Wars helpful?Simple, they actually make you write. The object of a Word War isn't to make you write something that is superb and amazing, it's to get you writing in the first place. Forcing yourself to just write something with a surefire deadl Read more:Start
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Chapter Twenty Eight: Of Stranger Friendships 2007-08-19 16:54:00 By the time dinner had come and gone James had a sense of accomplishing absolutely nothing. He hadn’t contributed to the plan to spy on the towers, nor had he been involved. He had simply sat around doing little of anything for an entire day. Even when Iliad, Triska, and Darl had returned from the inner city he remained, to put it simply, antisocial. Something inside him made him not want to be involved with the others. He knew it had to do with the way they looked at him. For some reason it felt much like how he had been looked at when those he had first come to know found out he had been marked by Luthien. He still didn’t know what that meant for sure, but he knew all too well that Luthien wanted to know about him. He wondered what it would be like to know the future. Dinner turned out to be far more respectful than in previous nights. Bourlinch’s shop had a wood stove and a modest supply of wood and kindling. Before long the flames were crackling, pots w Read more:Chapter
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Random Bits and Links of Potential Interest + Ranting Goodness 2007-08-18 22:51:00 Thanks for the fan art!Thanks to everyone who has been coming to this blog and thanks Tobias Buckell for actually paying attention to all the times your name pops up on the net and dropping by to leave a comment. That was really cool. And yes I will continue to listen to your Podcast sessions!Now for some other stuff here. I've had a lot of thoughts going through my head lately about this blog and about WISB. One of my thoughts involves this newfangled thing called Podcasting. TW has been putting together a Podcast for the site. I don't know why they thought of doing this, but more power to them. The idea got me thinking about Podcasts and I started Googling them. I had already heard of I Should Be Writing and The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy (which I am listening to now and catching up on), and happened to find this one I previously mentioned called Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing. I thought for a moment that Podcasts were just these dorky things that idiots did that d Read more:Interest
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The Proverbial Million Words 2007-08-16 22:48:00 I heard Tobias Buckell say in an interview at Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing that most writers need to write a good one million words of crap before coming up with anything publishable. Obviously this isn't always the case, but it got me thinking of how many words I have written.My total?276,377 words! Is that a lot? Granted, I've written loads more short stories than novel attempts, but that means I'm a little over a quarter of the way to that million. Is that a good thing? I don't know. Perhaps I'll break the mold with some short stories, but perhaps those aren't generally counted and Tobias was referring to novels, which would make sense.What about your word counts? Count everything that is fiction! All of it, even unfinished stuff! Read more:Words
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Interview w/ Susan Beth Pfeffer 2007-08-13 21:57:00 Susan Beth Pfeffer has graciously allowed me to interview her after reading her recent book Life As We Knew It. So, without further adieu, here it is!SD: First, tell us a little about yourself. A brief history if you will of why you started writing and why you continue today. SBP: I wrote my first book, Just Morgan, my last semester of college (NYU). It was published when I was 22, and I never looked back. Since then I've written over 70 books, all for children and teenagers, and can actually claim to never having had a day job.I'd always wanted to be a writer, and have been incredibly fortunate to live my dream.SD: What are you currently reading? What's your favorite book?SBP: Right now, I'm between books (I finished one on Friday and spent Saturday reading newspapers). I'll probably read a fairly junky novel next, and then I think I'll read a book about Alan Freed and the radio payola scandal. I read a lot more non-fiction than fiction.I don't really have a favorit Read more:Susan
Chapter Twenty Seven: Of the Inner City 2007-08-12 18:55:00 There was a knock at the front door to Bourlinch’s place of business. Everyone stayed still for a moment, then another knock came and Darl got up and opened the door a hair. The conversation that started was loud enough for everyone to hear. James knew immediately that the person at the door was a soldier. He could hear the gentle rustle of chain mail and the light tapping of the wooden end of a spear on solid ground. “What?” Darl said. Great, James thought, just start off with rudeness. “Sorry to bother you sir,” the soldier said with a voice that gave away his youth, “but old Early from two doors down reported some unusual activity here.” “What kind of unusual activity?” Darl’s grumpiness increased. “Magic being used. Old Early is sort of a sensitive man. Knows a lot of things most people don’t that are Blood-less.” “I see. Well, this is a healer’s shop.” Read more:Chapter
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Chapter Twenty Six: Of the Golden City of Crystal 2007-08-11 22:17:00 It was day, the sun gleaming above, casting brilliant yellow rays over Teirlin’pur. The rays struck crystal, cascaded down in all directions like leaves in the wind. The city could have been called City of Amber as far as James was concerned. It glowed like an enormous gold nugget. Tall snow covered mountains, clear blue lakes and rivers, and verdant, moss green fields, where thick groves of equally green trees made their home, paled in comparison to the impending beauty of Teirlin’pur. They rode, James now turned away from the city as Mirdur’eth pulled him along, and before long they were at the mouth of a wide thoroughfare. They took it west, avoiding the minor roads nearby. Men lumbered along the sides of the road, pulling along barrels or other heavy objects; women laid out clotheslines, attended to children, or simply hustled through side alleys to business unknown. There were all manner of strange creatures that James had never seen before, even in fairy Read more:Chapter
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What if Dragons were real? 2007-08-10 22:14:00 What would you do if they were real, or had been at one point and perhaps were driven to extinction by all those stories you read about knights fighting dragons and such? What then? With our world being so mysterious and animals thought to be extinct popping up randomly from time to time, could a real, living, breathing dragon come to life?How many of you have ever wondered if dragons truly existed? Or if there were larges lizards that could have caused rise to the dragon myths? And how many of you have sat around hoping to meet a real dragon one day?Well look no further than this image I found some years back taken at some time in 2004.I know what you're thinking... Is that real? (Well, maybe some of you are thinking it, and some of you are just thinking what a lot of scientists thought when they saw this). No, it isn't real, but it is possibly the most elaborate hoax in the history of zoological hoaxes from a physical standpoint. Certainly there were hoaxes around Nesse and Big Foo Read more:Dragons
Chapter Twenty Five: Of Waking Memories 2007-08-05 17:49:00 James awoke into a world of light so bright that he had to squint just to be able to see anything at all. All around him was a vast nothingness that led nowhere. There were no walls, no ground, and no sky. He wondered for a moment if he were in heaven and if he had died. The pain that he had been expecting wasn’t there and when he brought his hands to his face he could clearly see that no gashes or scars were there. It was as if he were completely untouched, further adding to his fear that he had in fact died and gone to heaven. Then someone appeared as a faded shade of gray. The figure walked leisurely, only fully becoming visible when the two of them were mere feet apart. The face of the man before him smiled warmly beneath a sandy blonde beard that hung at his neckline. Two faded green eyes looked down, further adding to the warmth of the smile. Then a hand extended. James took it and stood. No sensations came to him. No lightheadedness; n Read more:Chapter
Book Review: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer 2007-08-05 01:39:00 After reading this book I know exactly why it was nominated for an award, however I start to wonder why it didn't win the award it was nominated for. I haven't read everything from my list yet, but this novel is fantastic. It is as gripping as it is emotional, as enthralling as it is thoughtful.The story takes place in a tomorrow that very well could exist. It's a world exactly like our own. Miranda is a sixteen year old High School student and the world is suddenly buzzing with activity because scientists have found out that an asteroid is going to strike the moon. It's excitement for the research and the amazing opportunities this might present, not fear. But something goes terribly wrong. The asteroid pushed the moon into a closer orbit, throwing of the tides causing mass floods across the world, destroying entire cities. The sudden change of gravity ignites active volcanoes like never before, reignites dormant volcanoes, and opens up entirely new ones. Earthquakes and Read more:Susan
Writing Factoid #3 2007-08-04 13:55:00 Nobody asked me a question this time, though I wish people would since I know someone is reading this blog, but I figure I could put something entirely random here that won't have any influence on the story.How To Count in the Ancient Language of TraeaThis is very similar to how Spanish is put together. So you have the first 10 numbers here.Na - OneTwa - TwoTre - ThreeFirth - FourFith - FiveFesh - SixEsen - SevenEct - EightNoc - NineNas - TenNow, after Nas, it goes Nas'na, Nas'twa, Nas'tre, Nas'fir, Nas'fi, Nas'fe, Nas'en, Nas'ec, Nas'oc, and then Twas (for Twenty). It repeats the same after the ' for each ten. From then it goes to Tres (Thirty), Firs (Forty), Fis (Fifty), Fes (Sixty), Ese (like 'essay' for Seventy), Ectes (Eighty), Nos (Ninety), and finally Nan (One Hundred).From One Hundred on it is a different story, but now you can all count in the ancient language. Congrats. For those that actually look at the map you might notice some new things now. Read more:Factoid
Book Review: Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson 2007-07-31 00:06:00 Note: From this point on in the book reviews I'm going to be reading short stories between books from various anthologies that I have. So, occasionally a post will pop up with a short story review on it, and then that same post will reappear with a new story added, until I finish that particular anthology and do a overall review for it.Now to the review of this particular book.This was one of the hardest books for me to get into. The opening is so utterly bizarre that I hadn't a clue what was really going on until around page 200--about halfway into the book. The story is basically as follows:Francine is a young teenager who has run away from her world to another world. She's running away from her life where love has failed her, hoping that she might find love elsewhere. It's there in Sankhara that she meets Jalaeka who turns out to be a splinter of the god-like entity called the Unity. But Unity wants Jalaeka back and is willing to do just about anything, even destroying en Read more:Living
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Chapter Twenty Four: Of Night and Dark Dealings 2007-07-29 21:05:00 James heard the sounds before he looked. They were close and he imagined that he could actually feel the breath of wicked monsters along the nape of his neck. Powerful howls forced him to close off his ear canals. He’d heard them in the distance moments before, but now they were immediately behind. There were screeches unlike the Nu’thri, like children screaming at that unnaturally high pitch, inhuman. Then there was the sound of the Nu’thri, screeching in protest somewhere farther behind. Then he looked, chancing that brief moment when the trek ahead seemed without obstacles. His heart leapt into his throat, his stomach too, and he gulped frantically to push them down. The beats of his heart became wild with fear and terror. His skin crawled with goose bumps and every hair on his body, except the ones on his head that were far too heavy to move, stood up at attention, while his pupils became narrow like lifeless circles embedded in his skull. Read more:Chapter
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Why "I" Would Sell Out Like Paolini 2007-07-28 23:12:00 Apparently the community of Eragon haters is increasing throughout various avenues of the literary world. I'm sure many of you have already noticed this, and many have jumped on the wagon. Some of you are like me where you just don't care what the rest of the world thinks because you take it as a personal attack on your integrity when people question your ability to like or dislike a book. There are still others that truly battle to the end with people who have apparently spent the ridiculous amount of time to analyze a book that they apparently hate with a passion--a group of folks that continue to baffle me. I'm not a fan of the LOTR books, but I certainly have not taken it upon myself to analyze the living crap out of the novels just to simply get my point across that I don't like the books. It's a personal opinion, nothing more. Generally speaking I consider myself a critic, and like all critics, I have a select cast of people who like books like me. I offer an avenue to
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix 2007-07-27 17:55:00 Initial Thoughts: I was enthralled and disappointed in the film. On the one hand I think they did a good job bringing together many of the important aspects of the book. They managed to capture Umbridge very well. Staunton is absolutely perfect as Umbridge. In fact, I can't imagine anyone else playing her. She made me hate her as much as I hated the character in the book (that's a good thing mind you). She captured the twisted evil that is the Ministry of Magic. As a movie I can see this as being a fantastic film. The pace is very tuned and once again there is a fantastic cast. While the direction is surely not perfect, as a film it is rather good. As an adaptation, however, it is terrible. That's to be expected though, and if you are fooling yourself into thinking that Hollywood might one day do a really great book-to-film adaptation you should probably seek help. Hollywood has yet to accurately portray a book on the big screen, so it's no surprise at all that this wou Read more:Harry
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 2007-07-24 19:38:00 I'm not one of those folks that waited in line at night for the last 5 books to come out. I'm also not one of those that started out in the beginning, or latched on to the popularity as the movies came flying onto the big screen. Ironically enough, it wasn't the story that drove me to HarryPotter
originally, nor anything to do with Pottermania or the first film. It all started at Barnes & Noble, many years ago now. The first Harry Potter movie was coming out in theaters and my sister was a fanatic. I wasn't much into the books, and didn't really care. In fact, I think I was rather adamant about how 'stupid and ridiculous' they were. Then I saw something in B&N: the soundtrack to HP composed by none other than John Williams. I about took a dive at the counter because, well, I love John Williams. He is, by far, one of the greatest modern composers of our day, and possibly of all time. So I bought the soundtrack, on impulse, knowing full well that it was going to be Read more:Deathly
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Chapter Twenty Three: Of Shadowy Lands 2007-07-22 17:44:00 When James woke he knew immediately that he was not truly awake, but in a dream. He was in a large room, surrounded on all sides by a circular wall of stone bricks. There was no door and the ceiling flickered in and out of transparency, exposing a night sky peppered with blazing red stars. He wasn’t alone in the room, for Luthien sat on a stool on the opposite end, legs propped up on a shiny oak table. A long, wicked grin was across his face and his milky white left eye stared off into nowhere while his right eye remained fixed on James. James shivered, took a step back and found himself against the wall. He had no way of knowing if the dream was simply just a dream, or something more. He wondered, in that brief moment, if he could possibly have some sort of connection with Luthien, allowing this dream to occur. Luthien stood. He was gargantuan, or so James thought for a moment as the black iron clad man’s shadow crossed the room. Tiny wind, l Read more:Chapter
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A Solid Farewell To An Icon 2007-09-28 10:30:00 It's really irrelevant if you liked Robert Jordan's work or not. You can't deny his impact on fantasy literature, one that while not as powerful as Tolkien's, is certainly recognizable. Jordan pioneered the massive fantasy epic series. There is no doubt that his writing (including not only the Wheel of Time, but various other work too) has brought rise to countless long-winded fantasy series. And like all literature, it's hit or miss. The impact is undeniable, whether or not you see it as positive or negative (though you have to admit that his impact is a little of both).With his passing he has left behind quite a legacy, including an unfortunately unfinished fantasy series that we all of have heard of--The Wheel of Time. Like Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber...I have never read any of his works, but I recognize his importance to the fantasy genre, much like I recognize Tolkien even though I was not a fan of his writing (the story was excellent, but it wasn't written very wel Read more:Solid
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The Everchanging Space Economy 2007-09-27 13:32:00 First things first, I want everyone to know that I did a review of Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret over at SQT's blog. Check it out please.Now for something interesting! I'm sorry that it seems like all my little news things are all related to SF. Unfortunately there isn't really a whole lot of stuff that would pertain to fantasy that I'm finding. And what exactly would be good news stuff for fantasy? Anyone know? Other than literary stuff (such as Robert Jordan dying). So if anyone perhaps has some insight as to what you would like to see, let me know.Now to another interesting article I found, located here. I'm rather optimistic when it comes to space travel, of any kind. I think one of the biggest issues we have today not only in regards to space, but even other technologies, is that we don't take risks. There are no more Thomas Eddisons in this country, or in a lot of the world for that matter.So it came as a surprise to me that scientists think that it would Read more:Space
Microbes Rule! 2007-09-25 22:36:00 How many of you know what happens to the human body when it's subjected to the weightlessness of high Earth orbit? Well, to put it simply, the body actually starts to whither. It's not a quick process, and certainly not one that would prevent us from shipping people long distances in the solar system, but there is a noticeable effect on the immune system when astronauts return to Earth after a considerable stint in space. It's similar to AIDS. Your body has cells called T-cells, which have these little receptors whose job it is to basically tell other cells there is an infection in that particular cell. When someone is infected with AIDS, those receptors stop working. This is permanent in AIDS, obviously. So, when the body gets a cold, the cells don't know how to fight it because it seems to be replicating itself at such an alarming rate, which is true. Your body is no longer fighting the infection, basically.Now, being in space is much the same, except that the effects don
Updates, Changes, and New Writing Projects 2007-09-25 22:27:00 So I am officially moved in to my new place for the next couple years. Well, at least for the next year. There is a good possibility I will be spending some considerable time in New Zealand next year, but we'll see.Things are still a bit hectic. Some things are not yet unpacked, and things are a little misplaced and misshapen. I'm in a smaller room than I was before. You can see somewhat how things are progressing in some of the images at the end of this post. It's not perfect, but it will certainly do, and at least I have DSL, a roof, TV, my beautiful animals, and my schooling to look forward to!So given that, it's been a rather stressful couple of weeks.Now for an update on, well, stuff. I'm reading Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret for SQT's blog. It's a wonderful book and if anyone hasn't read the first you should. I also got a laptop, which I'll get a picture of eventually. I need it of course, because I'll be on campus quite a lot during the week.Now, for Read more:Projects
Update On Me 2007-09-19 15:21:00 I just wanted to give everyone an update on what is going on. There haven't been any posts on here for several days and here is why:I have moved! Yes, I have officially moved to Santa Cruz, CA. Well, technically I'm in La Selva Beach, CA, but it's right next to Santa Cruz and since I'll be attending UC Santa Cruz to get my BA, I figure it's easier just to say I'm in SC.So, I moved Sunday, and the last few days have been rather hectic trying to get things unpacked and organize all of my stuff in storage. I'll have some pictures in a week or so to give a visual idea of what is going on.So that's the reason for my absence. Things will resume eventually. I have a lot of news to bring up and the like.Thanks for your patience!(Don't click the read more, there is no more after this) Read more:Update
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