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Tags, Tiles, and Tantalizing Offers
Jan. 3rd, 2006 07:56 pmToday I added tags to some of my old entries. I have a lot of entries. One weird thing is that one of my more popular tags is turning out to be "bureaucracy." I use that tag to refer to rules, regulations, procedures, and logistics as well as red tape. (This paragraph almost but not quite fits that tag. It's more of an organizing thing, but I put most of my organizing stuff under "domestic," which this isn't, so, ironically, no tag for the tag paragraph.) My favorite tag is "life strategy." I wish everyone had that tag and I could just click somewhere a get a list of a bunch of entries related to that topic! Other fun ones are "fun" and "fantasizing."
In other news, the nonfiction thingy I submitted right after NaNoWriMo was rejected. I guess they reject about 2/3 of my stuff. Usually I can tell why once I see what was accepted. This time it was because I gave very alternative advice, but they didn't need it because there was really some advice that directly answered the question. Except is it in fact easy to knock out a single damaged ceramic tile on a countertop and replace it?
Hmm, Robin says no. And because it's hard to get out the tiles, you're in danger of damaging the adjacent tiles and having to chisel them out as well. My submission recommended that the person asking for advice stop thinking of her counters as "outdated" and start thinking of them as "classic." And do this by finding something she loves from an appropriate period, like a clock (or a Kitchenaid mixer), to set the proper tone--or by finding more square things if she likes a more modern approach. Almost everyone fantasizes about Kithenaid mixers, and they're much cheaper than new countertops (it's a frugality site). Oh, well.
In even different news, I got a newsletter from my (first) alma mater (Brandeis). They offered "emergency housing and free tuition for the fall semester" to Katrina students and also a researcher and his staff were accepted. In addition, the university's president "authorized a special paid leave of absence for eligible faculty and staff to assist with the volunteer relief efforts." And they also set up a campuswide "teach-in," where different professors lectured on different aspects of what happened, such as "social inequality, environmental justice and disaster relief," which sounds cool to me and was attended by hundreds of students. (I'm calling this paragraph "bureaucracy." Maybe my tags are kind of obscure.)
If you're ever in some kind of bad news that gets lots of coverage, make sure you think of your fantasy condolences, and then check out if you can get them. I mean Brandeis is a small college near Boston--I would never have thought to call them and ask if I could get in. Sure, living in the Astrodome in Houston is better than living underwater without the proper equipment, but it doesn't really compare to going off to college, does it? I wonder how many other locations besides colleges and convention centers and sports arenas made amazing offers to people.
Entry of the Day: In Treat Yourself to Doable Resolutions from Gladys Edmunds' Entrepreneurial Tightrope, different strategies are recommended for two different kinds of resolutions. "All was fine when I found myself with pets. However, trying to feel love and compassion for some of the people who came in and out of my office and my life was driving me to smoke more and eat like there was no tomorrow."
In other news, the nonfiction thingy I submitted right after NaNoWriMo was rejected. I guess they reject about 2/3 of my stuff. Usually I can tell why once I see what was accepted. This time it was because I gave very alternative advice, but they didn't need it because there was really some advice that directly answered the question. Except is it in fact easy to knock out a single damaged ceramic tile on a countertop and replace it?
Hmm, Robin says no. And because it's hard to get out the tiles, you're in danger of damaging the adjacent tiles and having to chisel them out as well. My submission recommended that the person asking for advice stop thinking of her counters as "outdated" and start thinking of them as "classic." And do this by finding something she loves from an appropriate period, like a clock (or a Kitchenaid mixer), to set the proper tone--or by finding more square things if she likes a more modern approach. Almost everyone fantasizes about Kithenaid mixers, and they're much cheaper than new countertops (it's a frugality site). Oh, well.
In even different news, I got a newsletter from my (first) alma mater (Brandeis). They offered "emergency housing and free tuition for the fall semester" to Katrina students and also a researcher and his staff were accepted. In addition, the university's president "authorized a special paid leave of absence for eligible faculty and staff to assist with the volunteer relief efforts." And they also set up a campuswide "teach-in," where different professors lectured on different aspects of what happened, such as "social inequality, environmental justice and disaster relief," which sounds cool to me and was attended by hundreds of students. (I'm calling this paragraph "bureaucracy." Maybe my tags are kind of obscure.)
If you're ever in some kind of bad news that gets lots of coverage, make sure you think of your fantasy condolences, and then check out if you can get them. I mean Brandeis is a small college near Boston--I would never have thought to call them and ask if I could get in. Sure, living in the Astrodome in Houston is better than living underwater without the proper equipment, but it doesn't really compare to going off to college, does it? I wonder how many other locations besides colleges and convention centers and sports arenas made amazing offers to people.
Entry of the Day: In Treat Yourself to Doable Resolutions from Gladys Edmunds' Entrepreneurial Tightrope, different strategies are recommended for two different kinds of resolutions. "All was fine when I found myself with pets. However, trying to feel love and compassion for some of the people who came in and out of my office and my life was driving me to smoke more and eat like there was no tomorrow."