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_refugee_  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: IRC Post-Mortem: What Did You Learn?

I am dating the pope because this one's better than the last, but the consensus seems to be that that ain't sayin' much.

Yes I managed to actually do things while IRCing, I am surprised I managed so well, but I did. I was genuinely trying to talk about our proposed topics!

I had a very fun time with you all. lil you seem particularly upbeat and energetic, I hope it is because everything is great with you and your life is jubilant and it's just leaking off into the screen.





kingmudsy  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm honestly impressed by your ability to multi-task! I told myself I was going to do the same thing with my paper, but I ended up just powering through it once I left.

lil  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

While it may seem, at first glance, that teachers give papers as "busywork" - at the end of the year, at the end of degree or high school certificate or whatever, the thing you'll remember is what you researched for your own papers even 100 years after high school is over. (Note shameless plug, or I should say plog - a blog-plug)

kingmudsy  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Where's your Florida, lil? Did you make it?

Super interesting post, though. I'm proud of all of my work, but I only promised myself to have a draft done by tomorrow night. Looking over it now, it wasn't top-notch work, but I'm making revisions :)

lil  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll tell you if you send me a postcard. I'll send you one with hubski stickers. Do you have hubski stickers?

kingmudsy  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nope! No idea what these things mean!

lil  ·  3354 days ago  ·  link  ·  
kingmudsy  ·  3354 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, duh. PM me your address, I'll try to send you something cool!

_refugee_  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be honest I'm at the point with submissions where the less I care/agonize about each one, the better, and it also all feels soulless and vaguely like begging for gods to come down and kick me in the ribcage, so it's better if I am doing something fun at the same time, even if it takes me more time to send out a submission.

So I wasn't editing at all, I was skimming magazines and trying to figure out which poems might fit where best, but beyond that it was a lot of copy/pasting and reiterating my same general cover letter when necessary. If I was editing I don't think I would have been nearly so conversant.

I also stayed pretty focused on just the back and forth between lil and me so that probably was part of it.

I just hate submissions and need to do more of them anyway. shrug

lil  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In retrospect, you should probably hang on to Mr.-OK-For-Now, even if he's not the pope.

Edit: reason - You seem to have feelings for him. Feelings are pretty nice when you have them for someone.

kingmudsy  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What is it that you do, by the way?

_refugee_  ·  3354 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lol I work for a bankkkkk