All posts by Sean Shannon

Well, my voter information card came in the mail today. So next month I get to go out and vote! Are you excited? Me neither. I’m putting the final preparations on the flyer for the Matthew Shepard Vigil flyer tonight, and then I get to go prepare my speeches. This is the first time I’ve ever spoken at something like this, and of course I have to put all my usual political ramblings aside here. This Vigil isn’t about Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives,…

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Ariel and Bonnie, on behalf of the residents of the forty-nine other states, I wish you good luck. You’re gonna need it. As for me, I don’t know. Just when things really start getting good with Spectrum (I swear, we’ve got such a great group of newcomers this year it astounds me), I start having trouble with my most favourite professors. I don’t know what that’s about, but I’m getting a really bad feeling about how this semester will turn out. And yes, I’ll start…

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New at Backwash: “The Next Step”. It’s a look at where I currently stand with my post-UT plans, first with my fears surrounding getting into a good MFA programme, and then my fears that I may soon, at long last, be leaving home. So if you want to know what’s been on my mind about this whole process — as if I don’t have enough other stuff to worry about right now — go take a look at this article. By the way, be thinking…

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I just went out shopping, and the weather’s a little better now. Mid-50s, a cold wind blowing but not so bad that I couldn’t get away with just my lightweight coat over a t-shirt. I guess it’s what I’d call “touch football” weather; perfect for a nice fall game. Thinking about that while I was out, though, I guess I was kind of disappointed, since I haven’t really had a chance to play touch football for a long, long time. Maybe I should talk to…

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We actually had two straight nights where the low temperature got down to 32. Freeze in early October in Toledo. On the plus side, hay fever season ended early, but then again hay fever hasn’t been too big a problem for me in recent years. (It was a real pain when I was an adolescent, though.) On the minus side, I don’t want to think about how this is going to affect the foliage this month; it could very well ruin the last autumn I…

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