@DrJamesJBailey Same! Choose something neutrally good to think about. My dog did the trick. Also some places have machines with wider bays and mouths (or as you say, glowing donuts of dread). Make sure you’re booked into one of those if the option exists! Good luck. 🍀
@luke_w_whelan@outsidemagazine Luke -- I'm sorry to hear! This makes things not seem right in the world. Loved working with you! Whoever gets to work with you you next will be lucky. (I hope it's me again!) Sending all good vibes your way.
is this how pettily granular elite colleges are?
"the admission officer at the college ... simply responded that I should keep my A in honors calculus, implying that if I did, I would get in during regular decision."
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Mrs. Carroll: pretty and proper, cursive handwriting that belongs in a museum, makeup that never smudges or pales, unreconstructed Tx accent, one of my favorite teachers
Thanks @ShortStoryToday for making talking fiction so easy! Tune into podcast for: segueing from journalism to fiction (but not combining!), guilty pleasure reading, @Miranda_July fandom. Thanks above all for the amazing reading of "Love, Loss, Live."https://t.co/jAhi8pT5WT
OUT NOW! NH author Sarah Schweitzer shares how writing fiction was for her a natural extension of the work she had done as a Pulitzer-nominated journalist. Her story "Love, Loss, Live" was inspired by a celebrity news item Sarah happened to read one day. https://t.co/tGqa4lJj7o