Author: Traci Gardner

C&W 2006 Presentation: Musings

I’ve been sitting around trying to figure out my presentation for Computers and Writing. That means, of course, that I’ve been fidgeting with trying to find information on the conference online, researching this and that, and other “prewriting” activities. Yesterday,…

Do you ever sit down to write something and find that you can’t figure out anything to say that even begins to sound useful? I have been trying to write this entry for over an hour. I deleted it twice.…

In a spot of boredom, I was playing with camera settings, and figured out how to do close-ups. They appear to be more fuzzy than the already fuzzy regular versions, but I was entertained by the ability nonetheless. The silly…

Today was another day. I still don’t know what I’m going to do about Lubbock, but I do know that I need to figure it out. I just feel so brainless. I want all the wrong things, and they’re not…

Another weekend passes. I’ve done some more reading of Norma Fox Mazer’s What I Believe; but I still haven’t quite finished it yet. I actually started it weeks ago, but put it down because it was depressing. It still is,…

This morning felt like a summer morning in Houghton. Almost chilly, but clearly going to get warmer. Things chirping and blooming. Lawn mowers whirring. Can you be homesick for some place you didn’t live?