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I should probably update this blog more often. It would just be a matter of cross-posting from my other blog, but I'm lazy.

Anyway. Five words to describe me... These words were given by my friend Rachel.

Asatru
I've been to the Heartland Pagan Festival three times that I can remember: once when I was maybe 12 or 13, when I was 18, and this...
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For the past year and a half, my girlfriend has been in Kazakhstan with the Peace Corps. She teaches English there and generally speaking doesn't seem to have ever been that enamored of it. She told me the reason she signed up was because she felt like she didn't have anything keeping her in the US- this naturally being about two weeks before she met...
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Odd thing: I get addicted to songs. As in sometimes I will become completely entranced by a song and listen to it fairly continuously for about four days.

Songs that have recently had this effect:
-My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), Neil Young
-All These Things That I've Done, The Killers
-Otherside, The Red Hot Chili Peppers
-There's this one version of Wonderwall...
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"Professor,"
by Eric Scott

Professor,

I am writing this letter to apologize for my absence in the last class. You must believe that I truly wanted to be there; in fact, your class is often the highlight of my week. I know that I am a graduate student now and that I should not miss class. I know that the primary difference between graduate and...
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I just finished a new story (the beginning of which I posted here a little while ago.) You can check it out at my journal.

-E

I recently took a roadtrip to Boston with my friend Harry on an English major pilgrimage, searching for the beloved corpses of equally beloved authors. Here's the trip, by the books.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
ERIC
Allison (we hung out on Saturday night)
Jaysin (Allison's roommate)
Priscilla (we had breakfast Sunday morning)
HARRY
Billy (Harry's friend, whom we stayed with in Oberlin, Ohio on Sunday night)
Sally...
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Considering that I just rejoined SG a few days ago and generally don't do well at integrating myself into communities like this, I doubt this will be read by many people. However, I'm determined to spread the word, so here it goes...

I, Eric Scott, am making a bet with the universe.

I have a novel, which is currently called DEMON, and I have been...
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