Frank: 7 Hours on a Bus, One Way

So I'm leaving Holy Cross at 6 AM to travel to Washington D.C. for the Patriot League championship round at American University. For those interested, the game will be shown on ESPN2, starting at 4:45. The winner of this game will gain an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. This may be the last game of my Holy Cross career.

Anne, I agree with you on the home-brew campaign setting. That's how I prefer to do things as well. But take the time to really flesh out the setting, and give the characters plenty of room to maneuver.

I've been selected to compete in a cooking challenge at my school. I competed in this challenge last year, the Worcester Telegram and Gazette did an article on it. You can read the article here. This year, I'm going to make risotto with ingredients selected from what is being offered that night. And no, risotto is not on the menu.

Greg, you were welcome to initiate those e-mail, IM, phone conversations about the blog. If you really thought that discussion should not be talked about on the blog, then you should have said something sooner.

As a final note, I will pose a question/challenge to each of you for the final week of our first year of blogging. Thinking about the year, what were your highlights or most memorable moments on the blog? Did you enjoy this blogging experiment, and how would you rate our success at blogging for a year? Finally, what do you think the blog will look like after our year of posting is over, and Anne's challenge to us completed?

Anne

I've been reading Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". Not just "Song of Myself", but the whole book. Let me tell you, there's some pretty racy stuff in there. It's good though. It's a cross between poetry and prose that I really like.

Here's one bit that I'm posting for all my bando buddies:
"With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons."

Not much else is happening. I'm slowly developing a D&D campaign- a homebrew thing, as I'm too lazy to read up on Faerun and the other pre-made worlds. I think it's easier, and more convenient, to make it up as necessary.

I am kicking butt and taking names in Mafia Wars. Liz, Greg- join my mob! Please?
Anyways, I'll catch you all later!
~Anne

And a followup

So I'm playing Animal Crossing again. The problem I'm facing right now is that I've planted so many fruit trees. So many that I seriously need to hire some not so legal foreign migrant workers to pick the fruit up... Or I could just spend 3 hours doing it myself and another week or so replanting fruit tress with normal ones.

After writing about Gibson this morning, I went out and got his latest novel, "Spook Country". I still have Pattern Recognition to finish, but I can't find it now after the move. I'm not to worried about it cause I though the main character was extremely boring and bland. Well, she's some brand-a-phobe so that doesn't exactly help her. What makes Pattern Recognition interesting is that the main plot revolves around pieces of film put on the net and the fans whom obsesses about it. Yep, Gibson got LonelyGirl15 right years before before she hit Youtube or Youtube itself for that matter.

Last week I bought a book on writing comics from one of the major DC editors. It's laid out well and explains the concepts well. This feeds into the "Greg wants to write a Comic Book" twang in the back of my head. It would be nice to have my name in the comic world mean something other than "some strange Alantian seeweed that heals".

A Case for Laziness

Yep, I missed last week's post. I started Monday night, tried to get back to it Tuesday. I checked the blog just before I sat down and saw Bill's post. I didn't bother finishing. I'm sick and tired of you all yapping about the blog on the blog. And each time you've done I've ignored it. This was a conversation that in all honestly should have been taken place over IM, emails, and phone calls. NOT front and center for everyone to know.

Or I might have found the agrippa method in Blogger that erases my post after first reading. And since I check my post after posting... I would have been the first reader. Yea, you'll believe that as much as I say I hack the gibson.

Frank: All Good Things Must...

I like how Bill called me a wise man in his post. I also liked how he copied and pasted Anne's original post for his own. Greg, where's the post? These are our precious final posts, so don't bail on us quite yet. If I have to bail you out, I will.

So I resumed watching Brotherhood 2.0 recently, and it's good. Though, all the videos of John Greene sitting around writing make me feel like I should be a writer. I would love to sit in my house all day and just write. That would be awesome. I guess I'm learning there are two distinct processes in the creation of a novel. The initial part, the writing, is something I'm good at. The other key part, revision, I am terrible at. However, I'm thinking that revision will be fun in its own way, taking a meandering story and reshaping it into a cohesive entity. As I enter into another revision of my manuscript, I have a few major changes to simplify and unify the story. It's tough, to make changes to a story that I really enjoy and think is perfectly fine the way it is, but that's how the process works. So I'm looking forward to doing more writing and revising in the near future.

I'm taking the MTELs on Saturday, as much as I want to be a writer, teaching looks to be my immediate future.

Anne: Homestretch

So kids, this is it. We're in the last month of the blog! Then you can all run away or whatever.

Sorry, I've been restless and down today. I'm sure things will turn out fine. I just wish I could work more hours. I'm still not used to have spare time to fill up. I know there are things I need to do, I just need to overcome the idea that I need to rest on my days off.

I'm not sure what else to blog about. Watchmen comes out soon, so I'll have to find someone to see it with. Apparently they changed the ending and that upsets me.

Star Trek movie! I can't wait for it! Simon Pegg (star of Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) is going to be Scotty! And Sylar from Heroes is going to be Spock! I've very excited about this.

Take care all!

Bill: This isn't Nam there are rules!

Hello my blog friends and relatives. A wise man brought it to my attention today that there are rules that govern this blog that we have not adhered to as we should. This is not Nam my friends this is a relative insanity! With only 3 posts before this happy expermint comes to an end I feel that we should look back on hte time we have spent as a family and also post wisly while adhearing to the rules. That is why I propose the challenge for the next 3 posts that we follow the rules as we should.

Rule 1- Your post must be at least 5 sentences long, not including your signature.
Rule 2- Tag or sign your posts, so it's painfully obvious who wrote it.
Rule 3- You must post on your day. We'll go by calendar days, so you have 12am-11:59pm.

But there's an exception to every rule, so here's the exception to Rule 3. We can post for each other, as long as the original poster wrote the entry beforehand and has a legitimate reason for not making the deadline.

Shedule: Order by birth! The way you came out!


Thank you and goodnight