In good news, look for Mary Biddinger today on Verse Daily!
In other news:
My poor sweetie has been so sick, the doctors think he has ‘walking pneumonia.’ I took him to the hospital for chest x-rays today. He’s on the same antibiotics I was taking last week, and they gave him an albuterol breathing treatment at the dr office. Think good thoughts for his speedy recovery!
Still don’t know where I’ll be living after the end of May, and still interviewing for jobs. I wouldn’t mind some good thoughts in that direction too!
In good news, Smartish Pace, after having a review I’d written since 2005 of David Lehman’s last book, finally published it this week! There’s a link to it on the front page, and here’s a direct link:
http://www.smartishpace.com/home/dynamic.html?reviews_lehman.html
I’m finishing up a review of Ivy Alvarez’ Mortal as well. And I’ve started up a (still, fairly lame and new) blog for Crab Creek Review, whose web site has proved more challenging for me than I expected, due to its programming – a Unix server, old PHP programming, old server-side includes – I’ve programmed web pages with Microsoft technology for so long (um, 15 years?) it’s a shock to my system! I’m not even sure exactly the way to change the price of the subscription because I’m not sure of the code in the order form! And the CSS form looks like something I’ve never seen. I don’t understand having a CSS – I mean, there’s barely any style to the Crab Creek pages right now, why do they need such a complicated style sheet? I could remake the site from scratch, like I don’t already have enough to do…
A. D.
CSS and server-side includes? Sounds like a good site to me. š These things are supposed to make our lives easier.
If you’re looking for anything other than a job in academia, let me know and I’ll put the feelers out. I’ve been job searching like a mofo.
jeannine
Thanks AD for the offer! Yes, there seem to be a lot of jobs out there right now, it’s just a matter of finding the right one. Should be easy, right? Hahahaha. If you’re looking out here in the NW, they have a lot of designer and programmer positions, and a lot of tech/programming writing positions. Not so many of those writing/programming/creative hybrid jobs, though.
Sure, if the CSS looked like any normal 21st century CSS, it would be good. Unfortunately, not.
And while SSI can be a good thing, again, not these.
A. D.
Hehe, I figured that was the case with the CSS/SSIs.
As a budding writing/programming/creative type myself, I wonder, have you read this article.
I think this $10,000 a month for a mostly static site is what we really need, professionally speaking.
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Sorry about your Sweetie. Wish him well for me.
See you soon,
Lana
Ivy
A review! A review! Thank you, Jeannine. š Good thoughts for your job hunt and all!