smokingpen | August 29, 2008
I wrote a review for Scott Westerfeld’s book Pretties today over at In Order to Write. I enjoyed the book and the review might prove to be informative.
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smokingpen | August 29, 2008
Senator John McCain (presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee) chose Governor Sarah Palin (R Alaska) as his running mate. Why is this important?
It’s not, really. As Andy pointed out some months ago, Black, White, Male, Female are not requirements to hold office. There are requirements and the Constitution dictates that an individual has to be (at least) [...]
smokingpen | August 29, 2008
Erin and I went to the OB-GYN for the weekly (at this point in pregnancy) checkup to make sure mama and baby are good and okay and everything seems to be progressing according to schedule. Baby is doing fine. The distance from pelvic bone to top of whatever is at 36 centimeters which, amazingly enough [...]
smokingpen | August 28, 2008
I figured (after the last post) that you all should see my booklist for Fall Semester:
300-level American Lit:
American Short Story Masterpieces
Three Screenplays by Horton Foote
After This
The Wild Iris
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
Senior English Course:
All the Pretty Horses
The Virginian a Horseman of the Plains
Fencing the Sky
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
Lazy [...]
smokingpen | August 28, 2008
Today is Thursday. It was a good day. I got up. Spent a little bit of time with Erin. Showered. Dressed. And then went to work. In the process I had the opportunity to help clean up some of the desks and then was told that the meeting I had with one of the professors [...]
smokingpen | August 27, 2008
Work is proving to be an interesting distraction from waiting for codename: CAMPER to decide to grace the outside-of-womb world with his presence. And no, we still don’t have a solid name; and yes, we may be bringing him home with a birth certificate that reads: Baby Boy Hattaway. And yes, we’ve discussed that as [...]
smokingpen | August 27, 2008
I updated In Order to Write with a post on paradox’s. Not sure it is as clear as I want it to be and may play with the idea in the coming weeks/months. But, as I have been somewhat remiss about that site (other than to post book reviews) and as it is there for [...]
smokingpen | August 26, 2008
A week or so ago (or so) I made the (hopefully now obvious) change from sw-c.com to johnhattaway.com. I was a little out of sorts about the transition and had put it off for a few reasons, one that I knew I wanted to move my site but not really sure where to even though [...]
