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Love Letter to the Hunger Games

 I had forgotten to post this when I wrote it.  We were assigned to write a love letter to a book for class.  I chose the Hunger Games Trilogy, and I may have gotten a little carried away.  =)  I hope you like it. September 22, 2011 To the Girl who was on Fire:             Katniss, you’re everything I’ve been looking for in a YA novel since I passed the gateway into my twenties.  I had been missing the hypnotism of a well-written adventure book worth staying up late for.  You entered my bed full-bodied and deliciously immediate, displaying a stubborn heroine complete with her own arsenal of physical and emotional explosions.  In all our combined tragedy, we were an ideal match.             You appeared at the perfect time—when yet another of my relationships crumbled to pieces .   The recovery process had seemed impossible, and I reme...
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Challenges with Thought Experiments

But actually written: 2/2/2010 I hated writing my last post. There was too much information. Too many resources to grapple with and wrestle ideas out of. People told me over and over, isolate one idea and develop it, tear it to shreds, and develop again. One problem: all the ideas are like shreds of cloud that I'm falling through- plenty of substance around me, but not a handhold in sight. My roommate happened to be in the room while I was writing and made me pause when she heard me smack myself in the head in frustration. "You make writing papers sound like some epic and dramatic battle," She told me when I read that first bit of this blog to her. Luckily for my frazzled brain, her English Major boyfriend jumped in for me. "English Major: I can't say anything other than that. When your livelihood depends on what come from your fingers, damn right it's a battle." He had a point. I remember the first night I tried writing...the ideas were there- the notes...
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