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Name: David
Country: United States
State: West Virginia
Metro: Huntington
Birthday: 11/29/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Christianity, Creative Writing, Art, Foreign Languages, Computers, Freemasonry, Formula 1 (Ferrari), etc.
Expertise: French, DreamweaverMX 2004, Adobe Photoshop CS2
Occupation: Social Studies Teacher, JMHS
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AIM:  DaveMuaddib
Member Since:
3/28/2005
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| Friends,
My blogging has been sparse on here, and I'm seriously considering finding a different blogging venue, something where people who aren't subscribers can leave comments too. Interesting possibility, we'll see. I think most of you have jumped ship on Xanga anyway.
So, the latest news. Since February, I've been working on a historical fiction novel called "The Go-Slinger," an idea that I pitched to a publishing company that deals in textbooks about the board game go. I've been asked to go ahead and write the book, and we'll see where that takes us. I'm on the seventh chapter already, with the publishers currently looking over the first six. I'm trying not to be too hopeful, as the project is not officially greenlighted, but this may be my chance to get into the writing market! Lots of prayers, folks.
Pax Christi,
David
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| Hey folks!
It's true... I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I just have been rather busy lately, with school, my own personal studies, and other things and haven't really updated my Xanga as much as I should have. I invite those of you who have Facebook to certainly come looking for me on there, because I update it more than I do Xanga.
I will say this, I do love the cross-compatibility between the two mediums, as I can blog on here and it uploads within a half hour or so to my Facebook. I'm glad for that, because I really don't have the time to mess with both of these wonderful little toys, but I definitely want to make sure that no one is left out. So, I blog on here, and let Facebook do the rest of the work for me.
So, a student recently seemed surprised that I blog. Yes, Virginia, teachers do have lives outside of the classroom. In fact, our lives are so interesting outside of the classroom, that this is the only part of this blog today that I am devoting to students. So there.
I added the following quote to my Facebook today:
Hitotsu no gengo wa juubun de wa nai.
It means, "One language is never enough." It comes courtesy of Omniglot, one of the neater websites online.
(Update: I'm mad at Xanga, as it doesn't have Japanese Language support.)
I couldn't agree more. I have embarked on further language studies, trying to add Japanese to my language repertoire. I already speak/read French, and have a pretty decent grasp of basic Latin. (Enough to follow the Mass on TV.) I putter occasionally with German, as I used to speak it a very long time ago (Danke Schöen, Frau Burris...), and on a good day I can keep up with Middle English well enough to read Chaucer, especially if some of the more difficult words are glossed at the bottom of the page. So, I guess I'm rather multilingual.
What an amazing world that we live in, when all of these amazing language resources are available to us.
Here are a couple good links for anyone interested in taking up Japanese:
Japanese Language and Culture Site
The Kanji Site JPLT stuff with 4,3, and 2 level Kanji.
Jonathan Waller Filled with great resources on Japanese, as well as a Japanese TEXT EDITOR that lets you written in Hirigana, Katakana, and KANJI. Yes... you can write in Kanji, if you know what you are doing. I've already written an e-mail to a long-lost friend of mine in Japanese Kanji. I look forward to her response. (She does speak Japanese fluently, btw. She teaches it in China.)
Well, I think that'll do it for me for the day. I promise I will start blogging on here more often though. I'm starting to feel up to writing again. I had a major brain block on all writing, so to speak, after the enormous writing jag that I had back in October. I wrote more than 200 pages on my book Intelligence Quotient in about a month, and then my muse shut down from utter exhaustion. Oh well, as soon as it wakes back up, I'll be back in business! In the meantime, I'll keep up my studies.
Sayonara,
David
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| "We will continue to stand firm for the unchanging truth of the Holy Scriptures and the redeeming Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, whatever the costs."
-- The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker Bishop of Fort Worth in his Letter to ++Katherine Jefferts Schori
David (a Conservative American Anglican)
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| So, after midterms are over and done with, and I'm glad. I mean thoroughly
glad that they are done with. You see, here we do these silly six week
grading periods, three for an 18 week semester, which means we are
doing grades of some variety every THREE WEEKS!!! It's insane, but
that's what they do. I miss the old 9 week grading periods of high
school, when I was at Point.
Anyhoo... now that I am finished with that, I can move on to bigger and better things, like working on Intelligence Quotient.
I finally got to work on it during planning today, and I intend to
write more this evening. I've missed getting to write during these
past few days, but I have written about 60 single spaced pages
in the past month. That's a fair bit of writing. If I keep this pace
up, I should be a good ways through the book, if not done by Spring.
In the meantime, I'll keep sending off stuff about my books to various
publishing houses.
Here's hoping!
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| ... to KIMI RAIKKONEN on this long-awaited F1 World Championship win! HUZZAH!
David
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