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Welcome, Melanie! You'll like it here. Fun and helpful.

When in doubt, always go with the "I just rock" option. It always makes you feel better than anything else.

And congrats on getting some thesis done. It always gets better once those first few pages are done. Not much better, but some

A marathon? tough enough.

in Alaska?

I'm impressed. But not envious. Couldn't pay me to do a marathon. Wouldn't ind going to Alaska though...

good luck!

I never participate in faculty meetings. if I did, my participation would get me fired.

sounds an awful lot like most of my faculty meetings.

I hit a 63.7% with "Nerve Damage".

And how bad is it that I'm an English teacher and couldn't asnwer all the questions?

I skipped Stage 2, too, except for the one time one of my Grad School instructors made us send something out (I got rejected and rightly so). Grad school itself sent me right into Stage 3 and I've bounced from one stage to another ever since. Been in Stage 5 a lot lately, especially after a buddy so...

I actually used to watch it in syndication when I was (much) younger. Had no idea, at the time, it was from the 70s. Thought it was still on. Given some of the crap they put on now, maybe it should be :) Oh well. Off to post in a thread that isn't my own. Suggestions? (I've been gone a while)

you feel old? 75 was the year I was born. And I got the Kotter reference.

Too much TV for me...

Hey All, I guess this is more of a re-introduction as I was here before. I was even in a writing group for a while, but then the wife got pregnant and everything kind of got pushed aside while we got ready. But now my daughter's here and my school year is over on Friday so I'm jumping back into all ...

I've found that, whether I want it to or not, my past always creeps in. I had cancer when I was 21. Now it seems like at least 1 character in everything I write has cancer. I've tried not to do it, but somehow it always seeps in, like it's my chosen metaphor or something. It does help, somewhat, bec...

Jill, I can understand exactly where you're coming from. There was a time that I loved writing. And then I went to college to get my BA in creative writing. I did pretty well, people liked my stuff, and even when my prof. didn't, I was able to handle it OK. It was my story and if I didn't want to ch...