Hi! It's Emily, and I'm going to be coming as often as I can. That was fun! Here's my little wordbank poem:

Hiking Alone
The ground is flat, but sloped
At a forty-five degree
To me.

My shoes are filled with the white
Sand. I raise my hand
And feel the wind go by

Sloped isn’t what I mean
Not rolling hills
Or people’s hair in rollers on dollar bills

The sand on the dune isn’t cold or salty
Or sizzling hot on my feet
But just warm and sweet

So I want to take a photograph
It would be grainy

I’m the silver hallide
I’m the elephant in the room
An archetypal elephant a the room
A dark spot on a photograph
A dark spot on a white sand dune

But I’m climbing,
Rippling circles around after a drop of food coloring
Bloop! Getting closer to the end
of the poem.
I’ll show them an onomatopoeia
in Shakespeare.

Howdy Howdy

Hey, I'm writing this from home on my day off. I wonder if that means I can go in a half hour late on Monday? This does qualify as work, you know.

Last night we had six bright eyed youngsters attend writers night. Chris' friend, Emily, was our new face and I think she had fun. That reminds me, I need to send her an invite to this blog. OK, that's taken care of. Both Hannah and Katie returned after an absence and Luisa and Lauren sat by each other and bonded. Lauren showed off her book art project that I thought was really creative and I can't wait to see the final result.

Our writing exercise required us to incorporate these following words into a piece: elephant, archetype, onomatopoeia, sizzling, dune, silver halides and bloop. Here's mine contribution.

The elephant dropped water
bloop, bloop, bloop
off its trunk into the water hole.
"Bloop," the creature thought
"that's onomatopoeiac."

"I'm an archetype, you know"
the elephant said to the lion
lapping lazily.
"No, you're not. But I am"

The lion looked over at the elephant
he wondered at its bulk
it was like a sand dune
sizzling in the sun.

"If you were covered
in silver halides, elephant,
I'd lay upon you and
you'd have the silhouette
of a lion on your back."

"I'm an archetype," said the elephant.


XKCD

I still don't get tired of going to XKCD and hitting random. It's a great time waster. This one gave me a good chuckle.

Meeting This Thursday

OK, we're meeting again this Thursday. At 6pm. At the Morrison Regional Library. Who's attending? Who's showing up? I am. Are you?

Old Skool Dorkiness

If I had a good picture of me and my Commodore 64 I could be featured on this webpage.

Matrix Ping Pong

Michael Swanwick posted this on his blog and I had to share this with you.

Reading Invite?

Last call for a chance to read before Irene Honeycutt here in late April. Meghan and Clare were interested but they both have class that night. Anyone else?