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finished: The Learning Curve (pages 83-96)

Page 92 - writing workshop
"The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers."

Page 94 - >:'))))
"The returning student had recently come through a difficult divorce, and because her pain was significant, she wrongly insisted that her writing was significant as well."

lunch break, munch break!! reading session 🍳🥗🥯

finished: The Youth in Asia (pages 69-82)

Page 80 - Neil the cat's euthanasia
"The end of my safe college life, the last of my thirty-inch waist, my faltering relationship with my first real boyfriend: I cried for it all and wondered why so few songs were written about cats."

lunch break and some chuckles as per usual 🤗🥗🥯

finished: You Can't Kill the Rooster (pages 60-68)

Page 62 "It's nontraditional, but that's the rooster's way."
had me in stitchesssss

finished: Genetic Engineering (pages 32-38)
finished: Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist (pages 39-59) *LOVED*❣❣

Page 44 - many colleges, many attempts at being an artist
"True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible. (...) Unfortunately, the school had no accredited sulking program and I dropped out, more despondent than ever."

gobbling up a few pages during lunch break😌🥗🌮

finished: Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities (pages 16-31)

Page 30
"(...) but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. I'd done my solo and would now move on to pursue other equally unsuccessful ways of getting attention."

finished: Go Carolina (pages 03-15)

Page 7
"I liked the idea that a part of one's body might be thought of as lazy - not thoughtless or hostile, just unwilling to extend itself for the betterment of the team."

finished: introduction to the 2013 version (originally published in 2000)

I normally skip introductions. With old books, they tend to be "spoilers", and if it's an introduction by someone who isn't the author, I frankly 🤷duncur

But this one is by Sedaris himself and already had me choking on my spit on page two, so I'm hopeful the book will have retained its charm over the years wohoo