over-educatedgradblr

[over-educatedgradblr]

Deleting Daniel Howell off of my Social Media feed is freeing.

I strongly suggest it.

[over-educatedgradblr]

Note to self

Stop thinking: “I’m not talented enough to execute this concept.” Start thinking: “I’m going to be a stronger artist when I’ve finished this piece.”

[over-educatedgradblr]

Strong words to use on a Resume

If you have ever had to write a resume for work or for an application, then you know the hardest part is figuring out what type of words to use that sound professional and and intelligent.

Example: If an application asks you if you have any relevant experience for a job at a day care center and you have experience, like you have babysat children. You would look at the words in the columns to see what words you should use that will help your resume stand out. You might put down “Have supervised and attended to children on a regular basis.”

I hope this is helpful to you.

[over-educatedgradblr]

The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:

Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016

Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.

You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.

Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.

[over-educatedgradblr]

grad school is basically this in a nutshell. && if y’all don’t have a book stand - do yourself a favor and get one

[over-educatedgradblr]

quotes from the saltiest how-to-write-fiction book I’ve ever read

i.e. On Becoming a Novelist (Gardner, 1983)—dated but surprisingly insightful.

“… mindless, tasteless, ignorant schools of criticism publishing fat journals and meeting in solemn conclave, completely misreading great writers, or celebrating tawdry imitation writers to whom not even a common farm duck would give his ear …”

“It is said (I think—sometimes by accident I make these things up) …”

“The writer with the worst odds—the person to whom one at once says, ‘I don’t think so'—is the writer whose feel for language seems incorrigibly perverted. The most obvious example is the writer who cannot move without the help of such phrases as ‘with a merry twinkle in her eye,’ or 'the adorable twins’, or 'his hearty, booming laugh'—dead expressions, the cranked-up zombie emotion of a writer who feels nothing in his daily life or nothing he trusts enough to find his own words for.”

“Every child knows intuitively … what the requirements are for good fiction, but by the time he’s reached high-school age, he’s grown a trifle confused, bullied by his teachers into reading what is in fact trash … By the time he’s a sophomore or junior in college, he’s likely to be quite profoundly confused, imagining, for instance, that ‘theme’ is the most important value in fiction.“

"If he takes enough English literature courses, the young would-be writer can learn to block every true instinct he has. He learns to dismiss from mind the persistent mean streak in J. D. Salinger, the tough-guy whining sentimentality in Hemingway … He can learn that writers he at first thought quite good, usually women … are 'really’ second class.”

“… well-meaning nincompoops (editors, reviewers, academicians) …”

“A psychological wound can be helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven. Some fatal childhood accident for which one feels responsible; a sense that one never quite earned one’s parents’ love; shame about one’s origins … or embarrassment about one’s own physical appearance: all these are promising signs.”

“Thousands of Americans stand for hours in streams trying to catch fish. The novelist’s work is no more visibly useless than amateur fish-catching.”

“One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception—at least some of the time—incompetent or crazy … [two pages later] Editors are the bravest, most wonderful people on earth.”

[re. writer’s block] “All of the conventional forms of breaking inhibition can be employed to get things rolling—self-hypnosis, drunkenness and smoking, or falling in love.”

“Occasionally, mean-spirited people have written good books, but the odds of it are long.”

[over-educatedgradblr]

Anyone else chasing an MFA in Creative Writing?

I’m halfway through my application.  Digging up all my old papers from undergrad has been a bit of a cringefest, even though I completed my undergrad this past September.  

If I can get through this application process I can do anything.

[over-educatedgradblr]

For everyone celebrating the Boncas as a moment in history

Today is the 55th anniversary of JFK'S assassination, too.

[over-educatedgradblr]

Teatime

[over-educatedgradblr]

PHIL’S LATEST INSTA

There were two reactions.  Which one were you?

1.  REACTION A:  Phil’s physical beauty is astounding.

2.  REACTION B:  Dan is one lucky bitch.

[over-educatedgradblr]

Lookit what I got.

[over-educatedgradblr]

OKAY so i just saw the most ridiculous thing at the store today

so we come across this thing

and we discover you can turn it inside out and

ITS HELLO KITTY I’M

HSE’S EVEN GOT HER OWN LITTLE CHICKEN DRUMSTICK IM SO DONE

[over-educatedgradblr]

OKAY so i just saw the most ridiculous thing at the store today

so we come across this thing

and we discover you can turn it inside out and

ITS HELLO KITTY I’M

HSE’S EVEN GOT HER OWN LITTLE CHICKEN DRUMSTICK IM SO DONE

[over-educatedgradblr]

DIP AND DOT ARE HOME WHERE THE WEATHER IS BORING AND PREDICTABLE

For kick, just think about the weather they’ve been through:

Flooding in the Gulf States,

Wildfires in Seattle/BC (my neck of the woods, this season was the worst).  Remember them at the ball game in BC and the sky was orange?  Yep!  Wildfires.

Triple digit temps in AZ.  

The legit concern of an earthquake up and down the entire West Coast.

Hurricanes in the Pacific.

Poor bois probs want some dreary UK weather for some normalcy.  

[over-educatedgradblr]

7 Ways to organize your laptop because we can always be a little more organized on our devices (including myself). 

[over-educatedgradblr]

My Undergrad Career is Officially Over

Four years, 182 credits, a 3.8 GPA and a Bachelors of Arts in English Literature, with Honors.  

[over-educatedgradblr]

Dear Dan:

Did ya know that AUS-PHIL could sound like “ass full”?

Maybe suggest to Phil “ASS PHIL” merch for the next run of hoodies?  Ass Full Philussy?  Printed down at the bottom hem?  

TYLYBBY