Let the answers begin!
Nov. 21st, 2003 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutMain music review down. Coincidentally, 2/3 of my Music Journalism homework (yay Media Alliance!) is thus done, too.
I had my last copy editing class (also at the Media Alliance) last night. Numbers good, parallel construction revision so-so, but spot-on when it comes to correlative conjunctions.
Half my zine's in preliminary layout (which means it's about 1/4 done, since I will need to redo the page sequence).
Well, I feel accomplished! Time to procrastinate, clearly.
So, onto the questions! (I'm still taking more, btw. Come on people, I've only received two so far. Fire away!)
First, from "anon" (actually a good friend of mine -- hi!):
I want to hear about one of yr favorite bks you've read recently. or an obscure fact about a remote location that most people have never been to.
I have been cagey about my reading habits in public this year because I am on the Tiptree jury and I feel uncomfortable sharing even a little bit of that process. It's OK to do so according to the folks I've talked to, but I figure you'll all hear about what I liked and didn't like when the final list comes out. A lot.
Nonetheless, not everything I've read recently is under consideration for the Tiptree, and I finally, in a spare moment, got around to reading Kitchen Confidential. (Bad girl that I am, I'd read A Cook's Tour first.) Both of these books violate my rule: never read a book which has the author pictured on the front cover. (Think of Ann Coulter's disembodied head, floating above an open newspaper, on the cover of Slander. Eugh.) Both are so worth it. Everybody in the world knows this by now, I know. I'll keep thinking.
Obscure fact about a remote location most people have never been to: Walnuts are a premier export of Kyrgyzstan. I know it's their #1 agricultural resource, but I don't know how it stands in regards to other potential exports.
I had my last copy editing class (also at the Media Alliance) last night. Numbers good, parallel construction revision so-so, but spot-on when it comes to correlative conjunctions.
Half my zine's in preliminary layout (which means it's about 1/4 done, since I will need to redo the page sequence).
Well, I feel accomplished! Time to procrastinate, clearly.
So, onto the questions! (I'm still taking more, btw. Come on people, I've only received two so far. Fire away!)
First, from "anon" (actually a good friend of mine -- hi!):
I want to hear about one of yr favorite bks you've read recently. or an obscure fact about a remote location that most people have never been to.
I have been cagey about my reading habits in public this year because I am on the Tiptree jury and I feel uncomfortable sharing even a little bit of that process. It's OK to do so according to the folks I've talked to, but I figure you'll all hear about what I liked and didn't like when the final list comes out. A lot.
Nonetheless, not everything I've read recently is under consideration for the Tiptree, and I finally, in a spare moment, got around to reading Kitchen Confidential. (Bad girl that I am, I'd read A Cook's Tour first.) Both of these books violate my rule: never read a book which has the author pictured on the front cover. (Think of Ann Coulter's disembodied head, floating above an open newspaper, on the cover of Slander. Eugh.) Both are so worth it. Everybody in the world knows this by now, I know. I'll keep thinking.
Obscure fact about a remote location most people have never been to: Walnuts are a premier export of Kyrgyzstan. I know it's their #1 agricultural resource, but I don't know how it stands in regards to other potential exports.
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Date: 2003-11-21 07:56 pm (UTC)