She's baaaack! Estella's Revenge!

The newly revamped Estella's Revenge is officially online! We've had a wonderful response since the 'zine refocused on books, and I hope you'll all take a few minutes (longer if you're going to read many of the wonderful pieces we have this month) to browse.

And let's give a big hand to all of the contributors and the ever-wonderful Heather...Assistant Editor and Tech/Design Guru!

If you like the 'zine please help us out and spread the word. By being offline so long we lost a chunk of our audience, and we would love to rebuild.

http://www.estellasrevenge.com

Blowin' like a.....nevermind.

Dallas/Fort Worth (and the surrounding sticks...where I live) were hit with a freak dust storm over the weekend. Saturday dawned sunny and lovely only to turn all to shit mid-day. Below are pics I stole from Crazy.Spoiled.Blitch of the weirdness. You'll notice, the first picture looks nice and healthy.





















Then there's the second pic.

As I said very eloquently on Blitch's blog, "Wasn't that the weirdest fucking thing you've ever seen? I expected aliens or Jesus at any moment." Really. All of a sudden everything was mud-colored. My first thought was actually "tornado" but usually the sky is green before those come down.

Odd. Very odd.

We had 40-60mph winds for the majority of the day, and most of this dust can be lovingly attributed to west Texas. Thank you, El Paso. Thank you.





Listening: The din of my own panic.

Gripe of the day: I submitted a paper proposal to THE big conference in Children's Literature. Last week when Thesis Director got her acceptance I began looking for an acceptance or rejection. I received neither. Turns out the shitbirds didn't receive my proposal AT ALL. But I'm more inclined to think that someone a) deleted it by accident b) didn't look over their SPAM folder.

*sigh*

The Life of the Boring

Nothin' shakin' around here to speak of. I should've graded papers today: didn't. I should've re-read some stuff for Thursday: didn't. I should've done anything productive: didn't. I did get a BookMooch book--Getting Stoned with Savages (J. Maarten Troost)--and started reading that!!!

I (not so) patiently waited for the mail today just to be disappointed at the lack of PhD letter. Of course, I also dread the PhD letter because if I get accepted I have some exceedingly painful, horrible decisions to make. It sucks being a grownup.

I think I'll toss any and all previous dreams and simply be an escapist.

Fiji, anyone?

Congratulations jig!

Congrats to Elise for her two PhD acceptances (so far)...one to TCU (Texas Christian) and one to OU (University of Oklahoma). And T. got the exciting news that he's been accepted to Purdue!!!



Now I'm getting a little nervous. I'm ready to hear SOMETHING from SOMEONE!

AND, for kicks, go check out World Book Day, HERE.