Category: Background Checks
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Story Sale – “Death’s Flag Is Never At Half-Mast”
Once upon a time, I read the first three stories in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series. And those, quite fine, books inspired me to write this blog post. I didn’t write the novel described in that post. Instead I wrote a 2500 word short story, and I recently sold that story to the newly-established online magazine…
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Going to the Land of the Pure
Headed to Pakistan in a few hours for work. I am pretty excited about it. Not only is the way we travel for work kind of decadent and carefree, but I am officially going to be sleeping through the vast majority of grad school notifications. When I wake up, I’ve either been emailed or not…but…
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Yay, I’m [somewhat] desirable.
Just got an email telling me I am on the waitlist at Syracuse, which is my first concrete news of any kind during this admissions process. I’m not too broken up about not getting in. I went in with absolutely no idea of what my odds could possibly be, so it’s nice to hear that…
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Unaccustomed Earths by Jhumpa Lahiri
My first experience with Jhumpa Lahiri was on a sailing trip I took with my parents, shortly after I graduated from college. I’d recently, in some vague way, let it be known that I was writing and submitting stories, and my parents handed me Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, telling me about the Indian-American writer who’d…
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For one golden year, my major life-changes roughly coincide with New Years
So, at roughly this time last year, I was preparing to get into the Jetta with my dad and drive across the country, back to D.C. For the first time in my life, I’ve broken free of the tyranny of the school year. No longer does June seem like a more appropriate time for year-end…
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Doing my thing…and whatnot…
Been a pretty hectic six weeks. My hard drive crashed a week into March and I lost everything that I’d written this year (the recovery company could never nothing). So I kind of lost my taste for writing, and for this blog for awhile. In the midst of this minor depression, I got a job…
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My Nature story has been published…
I got my contributor copy today. It’s online here.
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A note to potential employers: Hire me, I’m delightful
It’s possible that some of you have come to this site because you have recently recieved a resume and/or cover letter bearing my name, and then decided to google me. A cursory reading of this blog might make you be all like, “Well, I don’t want this guy working for me. He will be one…