http://brianconn.net/index.php Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:53:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was the distributor. $446.30. I drove it to Boston yesterday and bought some nice wool pants from The Garment District. $14. So 1 new distributor = 31 pairs of nice secondhand pants. They were not hemmed — and so, one assumes, never worn — ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/my-car-is-fine-now/ I got a new job. I will be teaching business writing at the University of Rhode Island. It's not what you'd call a full-time job, so I might have another new job soon, for a total of two jobs. Now I have a business writing textbook. Opening ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/rapid-progress/ I sent it to someone in South Korea. http://brianconn.net/index.php/the-hundredth-birkensnake-is-gone/ It seems like many of the bookstores that might want to carry something like Birkensnake are hippie anarchist collective bookstores. I don't have anything against hippie anarchist collective bookstores — I volunteered at one briefly myself — but is a slender volume of weird and somewhat incomprehensible fiction really ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/hippies-anarchists/ Available here Things turned out well. It is not possible to doubt that this is the best magazine — or indeed the best object of any kind — available for four dollars. Many thanks to everyone who helped — many of them, such as those from whom we stole supplies, without knowing ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/birkensnake-1-is-done/ Computer broken. Posting from the damn library. New computer ordered, but delayed by holdup with the credit card. Why do I have the credit card, if every time I need to use it I have to call some 800 number and recite Gunga Din backwards to a ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/obstructions/ When I say "finished," I mean I was writing it and I'm not writing it anymore. I sent it to some publishers, but naturally one assumes that will come to nothing. But it seems finished, in the way that things sometimes seem finished; and I feel different now ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/i-finished-a-novel/ It's true, I am no longer a graduate student. I am, in the quaint terminology of my degree itself, a magister in artibus elegantibus. I'll be teaching science fiction writing to high school students for two weeks at the end of July, then I imagine moving on to janitorial work. http://brianconn.net/index.php/i-also-graduated/ or something like it. The really plague-like part lasted only a couple of days, during which I thought almost continuously of the solitary-death-by-fever scene in The Sheltering Sky, and hated Paul Bowles, with all my remaining strength, as though it were the existence of that scene that was somehow ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/i-had-the-plague/ I was doing too many things for a long time, and not writing here. Maybe I'll write more here now — but slowly, slowly. I was in New Hampshire for a week with Michelle and my mother. You can see some of Michelle's pictures here. If it seems ... http://brianconn.net/index.php/coming-back/