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The DeKalb School board is set to vote on a budget Wednesday, and that budget is going to cut deeply into district programs.
The district is considering an array of cuts, like eliminating transportation to magnet programs, cutting a district supplement to pre-kindergarten programs, gutting funding for the popular Fernbank Science Center and eliminating extra teachers in magnet programs.
Here are the big issues:
- The district is facing an $85-million deficit, which grew to that that number last week on the news that DeKalb County's tax digest was lower than expected. That will cost the district an estimated extra $12 million.
- The district hasn't made public its proposal to cut the extra millions from the budget – which already features increasing class sizes by two students district-wide, which means fewer teachers.
- The board will likely balance the budget with a mix of deep cuts and an increase of taxes. The board has come to a tentative agreement to increase taxes by one mill, which is projected to raise $14.8 million next year.
Below is an explanation of some of the high-profile cuts the district is proposing. They aren't the biggest cuts, but they've received quite a bit of attention from county residents. Be sure and vote in our poll about how you would go about balancing the budget. And leave us some comments.
The district could save $2.7 million by scaling back its kindergarten program.
- Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson didn't recommend cutting funding to the pre-kindergarten program, but it's one of the board's options to cover the wide deficit.
- Eliminating the district's allocation to the pre-kindergarten program would mean the school system would offer only what the state pays for.
Timing is an issue with pre-kindergarten as well. Many parents have already received news that their children are eligible for the program through the district's lottery. Cutting the program entirely would put those parents in a tough spot considering many have already passed on other options such as private daycare.
"To me, that's a commitment you've made to people," said Nancy Jester, District 1 school board representative. "That's a spot in private daycare they relinquished."
The upshot to cutting the pre-kindergarten program? If the district eliminates its portion of the pre-kindergarten funding teachers would not have to be fully certified teachers, which could affect staffing. Also, the state mandates fewer days of pre-kindergarten than the district's calendar.
If adopted, DeKalb's pre-kindergarten program would be similar to Fulton County, which works without a local supplement.
Larger class sizes
Larger class sizes means fewer teachers. Atkinson has recommended increasing class sizes by two students for a savings of $14 million. A more austere budget that would include no tax increase would enlarge class sizes by three students for a savings of $21 million.
Walter Woods, school system spokesman, said DeKalb could take on fewer teachers this year, especially as teachers in programs that could shrink – like Montessori and at the Fernbank Science Center – could be moving into spots the district needs to fill.
The district is also saying retirees and attrition could help stave off layoffs.
"We expect to hire fewer teachers," he said. "I don't have a hard number."
Magnet allotments
The reduction of "magnet allotments" would trim $3.6 million in the Superintendent's proposed budget.
- The allotment allowed the magnet schools to have lower teacher-to-student ratios because of the extra funding.
That will likely go away regardless of what version of the cuts cuts are adopted.
Magnet schools would then be calculated based on the needs of the students at the magnet schools, like at other schools in the system, Jester said.
"It seems like people seem to understand you earn your teacher allotment," Jester said. "There shouldn't be extra teachers based on the fact that you have a magnet program."
Fernbank Science Center
The school board has also rubbed up against the very vocal Fernbank community (once again) with a proposal to cut $3.2 million from the Fernbank Science Center, a popular field trip destination and learning center for many students in the county. The well-organized Fernbank community has risen up against the proposal – successfully, at first, as the proposed reduction was eliminated from consideration. Until last week.
The morning before the school board's meeting last week, Atkinson slipped the majority of the center's $4.7 million budget back on the chopping block. But the board tabled its budget vote until Wednesday. The Fernbank reduction would excise many of the center's programs and 56 staff members. But school system officials say the center would remain open and "fully functional" for the roughly 160,000 students who visit it each year.
A PDF of all the cuts the school board is considering is attached at right. What do you think of the options? How would you plug the school board's budgetary hole? Tell us in the comments section below.


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What better way to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday (March 2) than with green eggs and ham? These deviled eggs are mixed with chopped ham and topped with pesto in this fun interpretation of Dr. Seuss' most famous recipe. Kids will enjoy making this green eggs and ham recipe as much as eating it.
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- 6 large or extra large eggs
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 tsp. sugar
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- 1 Tbsp. finely chopped ham
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- Slice eggs in half lengthwise. Scoop out yolks, and place in a small mixing bowl. Add mayonnaise, sugar, Old Bay seasoning and ham. Mix well. Taste, and season with salt and pepper as needed.
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What would be the best way to make my electric Fender Squire P-Bass Special sound more like an acoustic bass? Any tricks?Thanks,-cool
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There are several options in strings that may help. Others more knowledgeable in strings can help you there. I have found how you pick and where you pick the strings makes a difference. The closer to the tailpiece, the more electric sounding. Instead of picking with the tip of your fingers, assuming you don't use a pick, try picking with more of the side of your finger, or even your thumb. Anything that creates more skin contact to the strings give a more acoustic sound. Also you can dampen the sustain, which to me is one of the biggest difference between acoustic and electric, by weaving a cloth between the strings at the tailpiece. These are a few easy things I have done in the past that you could try.
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The trick I used on my electric bass is to use Flatwound strings, and roll the tone back. It is about as close to acoustic as I have found
Thanks all! I'll try those suggestions.
Another trick that works pretty well is to cut a piece of medium/ low density foam ( 1"X 1" X 4" +/- ) and stuff it under the strings directly in front of the bridge/saddle. This acts as a dampener, and emulates the sustain, or lack of, in the upright/DB sound. You may want to be careful of the type of foam, and the absence of a pick guard. Certain plastics do bad things to certain finishes. Try a few different dampeners with different amounts of force/dampening to tailor your tone.
quote:Originally posted by guitdawgAnother trick that works pretty well is to cut a piece of medium/ low density foam ( 1"X 1" X 4" +/- ) and stuff it under the strings directly in front of the bridge/saddle. This acts as a dampener, and emulates the sustain, or lack of, in the upright/DB sound. You may want to be careful of the type of foam, and the absence of a pick guard. Certain plastics do bad things to certain finishes. Try a few different dampeners with different amounts of force/dampening to tailor your tone.
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I like that suggestion about weaving a piece of cloth in the string near the tailpiece. I have a Wav4 upright I use from time-to-time and I can dial it back, adjust the wave shape on my bass amp and so forth, but it still sounds a little electric. That cloth idea is pretty cool, gotta try it.
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Let me second the suggestion of rolling back the tone knob. You can also try using the side of your thumb to pick the strings to cut down on the attack. This worked when a friend asked me to play on a recording. It also helps to listen to what you are playing and think about whether or not the type of bass lines you are playing sound appropriate for an upright bass.
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Kinda off-post, but for about $250 or less (eBay) an Ashbory bass (now sold by Fender) sounds about as close as you can get to a real upright. It is fretless and uses silicone rubber strings. Go to largesound.com has more info.
That Ashbory is pretty neat. Thanks for the link.
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I have a Fender acoustic/electric resonator bass. (Yes they really made one but only sold it a couple of years ending in about 2003. It was Model FR51, a companion to Fenders 6-string resonator, Model 50CE.) I have a number of basses, but the Fender resonator comes as close as anything I've heard to an acoustic, upright bass sound. Of course, you need to have your amp settings right -- meaning set for as plain vanilla bass as possible. I use a 1963 vintage Fender Bassman or 1967 Ampeg, both of which produce good ol' fashioned, unsweetened bass sound. Played through such a rig, the Fender resonator sounds remarkably uprightish.
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I found the first step was to get flatwound strings. They are also easier on your fingers. Also sound the string with the side of your finger as you would on an upright. I turned down the amp also but didn't think to try cloth damping.
Another string option is Tape Wound. They are mainly black tape (vinyl maybe.. I dunno) Even more thumpy than the steel flats. These might even be too dull.
I have roundwounds on my electric/acoustic Fender resonator bass guitar. It came strung that way. On the one hand the rounds help the guitar project when it's played acoustically. On the other, I expect the rounds fight the acoustic sound when it's played electrically. I really like the uprightish sound of the guitar when amplified and I'm thinking of putting flatwounds or tapewounds on the guitar to enhance the thumpy acoustic sound. But I'm concerned that this will produce too muffled a sound when the guitar is played acoustically. Any thoughts on this? Are acoustic bass guitars so inherently low in volume that one must play them with roundwounds in order for there to be any sound projection?
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Richbass - You may do better than most ABG's with a resonator, but I didn't get enough volume to keep up with more than a guitar and quiet fiddle with my Takamine ABG even with roundwounds. More than one fiddle, a loud fiddle or a banjo would bury it. Fixed that problem by getting an upright bass and only play the ABG plugged in now. Through the amp I hated the roundwounds... probably spoiled by the sound of the upright, but they sounded too boingy. I like it much more with flatwounds for both the sound and feel. You're right though that you will probably lose some acoustic volume with flats.+1 to damping, playing with side of thumb, and rolling treble off the eq. to get a more UB sound. Something else that worked well for me is playing with a felt pick .- Jeff
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I have a set of black tapewound strings (Carvin/LaBella) on my fretless bass. Definitely has more of an uprighty-sort-of sound than my other electric basses, which have stainless roundwounds on them. I haven't done it, but some kind of foam or cloth dampener would limit the sustain, thus imitating another key element of an upright bass's sound. Don't forget that Fender's early basses came stock with a foam dampener for the same reason - to reduce the sustain in an attempt to get them to sound more like an upright.--Steve
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My old fender fretless has rotosound black wound tape strings. [they look like plastic] that really helps- but they are hard to find. And the old fender did come with a foam dampener in the tailpiece[ I took it off when I redid the bridge with a badass] but a piece of foam [you can find foam rubber for free or buy a cheap sponge] cut and placed under the strings at the bridge helps[just experiment] . Your own playing style helps too. You gotta slap it not pick it. Frank Zappa put contact [acoustic sytle like barcus berrys] on all of his guitars. I have one on my old danelectro under the bridge and wired into the guitar with the reg. pickup. and a vol. control pot. This gives you a really woody slap sound when you turn it on.
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GHS #3060 Black Nylon Tape Wound.......use them on my '81 P-Bass and on the Trinity River Acoustic/Electric I play....
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quote:Originally posted by jazzeuphKinda off-post, but for about $250 or less (eBay) an Ashbory bass (now sold by Fender) sounds about as close as you can get to a real upright. It is fretless and uses silicone rubber strings. Go to largesound.com has more info.
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Jersey upset the form book as they clung on for a seven-run victory against tournament leaders Malaysia at Bayuemas Oval to claim their first win of the event. Jersey were defending 171 and Alex Cooke claimed the final wicket when he had Shahrulnizam Yusof lbw with more than seven overs of the chase unused. However, the real hero was Anthony Hawkins-Kay who took 4 for 22 to earn the Man-of-the-Match award. He claimed two early wickets as Malaysia stumbled in their reply and at 76 for 6 their chance appeared to have slipped away.
But the lower middle-order showed fight and a 53-run stand between Suresh Navaratnam (37) and Eszrafiq Aziz (25) meant the odds slightly favoured the hosts. That was when Hawkins-Kay swung the game again with two wickets in two overs, yet still it wasn't over as Malaysia got to within 10 of the target before the final two batsmen fell in seven deliveries.
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Kuwait were indebted to Abid Mushtaq's rapid innings as they chased down a Duckworth-Lewis adjusted target of 161 in 29 overs against Fiji at the Kinrara Oval. Mushtaq hit 43 of 24 balls in a first-wicket stand of 73 in less than 10 overs to ensure Kuwait were ahead of the pace after rain had intervened. Iniasi Cakacaka tried his best to keep Fiji alive with 3 for 13 from six overs, but the chase was comfortably completed by Saud Qamar and captain Hisham Mirza. Earlier, Fiji had done well to recover from 38 for 3 as Josefa Rika (55) and Waisake Tukana (50 not out) added 73 but, as is often the case, chasing under D/L proved an advantage.
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Redcurrant recipes are ripe for cooking with. Try these pretty, bright red, juicy berries with their tart, sparkling flavour. Use them to decorate cakes and puddings - dip them in lightly whisked egg white then roll in sugar to give them a frosted effect.
Redcurrants, with their high pectin content, make beautiful jellies full of vigour that are perfect on toast or stirred into gravies and sauces to be served with lamb and game. Fresh redcurrants are essential in summer pudding, but also marry beautifully with strawberries for a cool, elegant, healthy dessert.
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Tonawanda News —
Some good sports news, some bad sports news and some politics to round out the Sunday column.
First, the good:
My St. Louis Cardinals are back in the World Series after hanging a stunning 7 earned runs on National League Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw en route to a 9-0 pasting in a decisive Game 6.
Except among Cardinals fans, the big win seemed to draw a communal groan from the sports world writ large.
Apparently we Cardinals fans have the happy problem of rooting for a team that wins too much. Familiarity breeds contempt, they say — and baseball fans are getting plenty familiar with the Redbirds playing late into October.
A piece by Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Mahler made the rounds on the Internet Friday night, the headline of which proclaims Cardinals fans to be "the most insufferable fans in sports."
How that award doesn't go to the Yankees or Red Sox is beyond me.
I have to say, being a lifelong Western New Yorker rooting for two of the most disappointing franchises in professional sports, it's much more fun being on the other side.
So, national sports writers, drink all the Haterade you want. Call us Cards fans insufferable. Mock our slogan, "The Cardinal Way."
I couldn't care less. My boys are still playing ball while the leaves are falling. And with all the young talent on our team it's going to be like this for the foreseeable future.
If they're sick of us already I can't wait to see what they're writing about five years from now.
About one of the aforementioned disappointing franchises, the Buffalo Sabres are at an all-time low.
Here's something to ponder: This team was in better shape when it was bankrupt and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was the owner than it's been with a billionaire lifelong fan in Terry Pegula. How is that possible?


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Going to Myrtle Beach
When the temperatures are getting cooler where you are you may opt to head south if you are looking for discount hotels. Many families choose to vacation during the summer months when the children are out of school at Myrtle Beach, but if you want the best deals you might want to consider heading to the beach during the fall and winter season. When the summer season comes to a close hotels begin to see a dip in their business, but this could be to your advantage. Hotels are always looking to draw more business when times get tough, so you can get great rates. You can get a deluxe room for an entire week for what you would normally pay for one night at a four or five star hotel. Along with this benefit you will have money left over to enjoy the amenities that these hotels have to offer too, ranging from spa services like massages and facials, to room service and fitness centers. Myrtle Beach is just one of the many examples where discounts abound, but almost resort on a beach is a great place to look.
The Key to Finding Discount Hotels
In many states the fall season is drawing near or has already arrived, so for those who are just now planning a vacation you might find a great deal. Most people generally want to travel in the summer when they can get the warmest temperatures, enjoy a beach, or take a cruise to a far away island. Traveling to the beach and getting some warm temperatures is still possible if you head south, but can you find discount hotels? It is possible to get good pricing when you travel out of season, and I'll tell you how it works.


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The Daily Star
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WORCESTER — Edward Quinn Waterman, 65, passed away Jan. 7, 2014, at home.
He was born Aug. 4, 1948, in Oneonta, the son of Alton and Marie (Quinn) Waterman.
Ed was a proud United States Army veteran serving during the Vietnam War.
He worked for several area businesses, including the Worcester Creamery, Astrocom Electronics, the Box Factory and Dreams Park.
Ed was a life member of the Worcester American Legion and past commander, a member of the Schenevus VFW and Worcester Fire Department. He enjoyed fishing, hunting and especially bowling.
He is survived by his significant other for over 30 years, Marilyn Figary; and her children and their families; and several cousins.
He was predeceased by his parents; and an infant son, Edward Quinn Waterman Jr.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, at the E.J. Skinner Funeral Chapel, 155 Main St., Worcester. The funeral will start at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Judith A. Thistle, officiating.
Interment with military honors will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, 200 Duell Road, Schuylerville.
Donations may be made to the Worcester Emergency Squad, P.O. Box 191, Worcester, NY or the Worcester Fire Department, 10 Church St., Worcester, NY 12197.
Expressions of sympathy may be sent to www.skinnerfuneralchapel.com.


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When it comes to preparing a meal cooks are called on to make multiple decisions. Even after deciding what items will be on the upcoming menu, more choices must be made.
For example will it be fried or scrambled eggs for breakfast? At lunch time will it be chili with or without beans? Which will go better with the dinner steak, French fries or baked potato?
We will not attempt to pick the flavor of ice cream for the bed time snack.
What this is leading up to is the making of potato salad.
This dish goes great with numerous combinations. All barbeque places feature their "award winning" recipes. Picnics are not complete without potato salad be it cold chicken or sandwiches.
The true beauty of potato salad is it can be served heated or cold. It tastes just good fresh from the stove or stored for hours in the ice chest.
Potato salad is simple to make. Boil the prime subject and add boiled eggs, pickles, onions, and mayo (Miracle Whip is my choice) and then mix it all together. Some chefs add chopped celery and or small pieces of cheese. The pickles can be sweet or dill. My two daughters like to add ranch dressing, but they shouldn't count. They like ranch dressing on everything.
Before all this takes place, one of those many decisions discussed seconds ago must be made. Honestly the outcome of this verdict has caused family fights at gatherings.
Will the potato salad be smooth or chunky?
There is really no right or wrong way. The best tasting potato salad is in the eye of the beholder, or actually more on the beholder's taste buds.
The difference in the two ways it is made is simple. If smooth is the choice, prepare the potatoes like fixing mash potatoes, but leave out the milk and butter. By going the chunky path the potatoes need not even be peeled, just cut in small squares before cooking.
Tradition must be the factor in choosing between smooth and chucky. My family pretty much went with the smooth and that's what my mother made as I was growing up. Cherl's mother made the chunky and that's how she learned.
Even had the roles been reversed I would now be a fan of the smooth type. This is because of an incident when I was in the Marine Corps serving a month on mess duty.
Since the beginning of time military personnel have criticized their food.
On this one day they had good reason, only they were not aware of the reason.
Potato salad was on the noon menu. Unlike the Beetle Bailey comic strip where the potatoes are peeled one by one, we had a large 20 gallon potato peeler. The potatoes were dumped in and they somehow bounced around metal blades until all the peels were removed.
Three temporary workers were handling the potatoes when one of them reached too far into the machine. It sliced his right thumb off.
The base infirmary was approximately 200 yards from the mess hall. The old mess hall staff sergeant wrapped up the bleeding hand and told someone to get the wounded man to the infirmary. He also retrieved the thump pieces out of the potatoes, put them on ice, and sent them, too.
I would like to report the man's thumb was successfully reattached. Sorry, it didn't happen. The doctor on duty quickly realized a portion of the thumb was missing. It was the middle knuckle.
This was reported back to the mess hall. By this time the blood in the chunky potato salad had been scraped off. A brief search failed to turn up the missing knuckle.
It was almost time to start serving the meal. There was only one thing to do. We served chucky potato salad for lunch that day and then for leftovers that evening.
I am happy to report no one reported finding an extra chuck in their potato salad that day. As much as I like the dish, I stayed away from potato salad until I was discharged over a year later and sent home.
Smooth or Chunky?
When it comes to preparing a meal cooks are called on to make multiple decisions. Even after deciding what items will be on the upcoming menu, more choices must be made.
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MOTHER INTERRUPTED: Mom's frantic Easter Egg hunt
Normally, I like to think I'm pretty organized. I know where everything in the house is whether it belongs to me or not, which is a good thing when my husband can't find his favorite t-shirt (It's folded up on top of the dresser) or when my daughter is having a meltdown because her Lalaloopsy doll is apparently "gone forever" (It's on her bed). But in life, and in organization, you win some and you lose some. This is the story of me "losing some"-okay, a lot.
Smooth or Chunky?
When it comes to preparing a meal cooks are called on to make multiple decisions. Even after deciding what items will be on the upcoming menu, more choices must be made.
For example will it be fried or scrambled eggs for breakfast? At lunch time will it be chili with or without beans? Which will go better with the dinner steak, French fries or baked potato?
Words to the wise: Stay away from Highway 66 in Verdigris
For the ones of you who have been involved in the mess already will know what I am talking about. For the rest of you, please take warning. The following could probably save a lot of stress.
Boathouse Jail
It seemed to be a simple request and an interesting one to boot.
Special Moments
It seems like several local residents are keeping a constant watch as workmen have starting tearing down the old original high school building.
Moving Into New Century
It appears my family has been successful while dragging me into the 21st Century. After must urging and a few light threats, I finally gave in this past week and became a "Facebook" member.
Here's to the Girls
I have a question for someone who knows. It is not an earth-shaking question, but I would like to know the answer for no particular reason.
REVIEW: New 'Transformers' is loud, clunky, but visually impressive
Optimus Prime is having a bad day.
What's up with fuel prices?
For many Oklahomans the cost of gasoline makes up a large part of their monthly budget. When gas prices go up, it often means families must rearrange their priorities so that they can simply fill their cars with fuel.
REVIEW: 'Green Lantern' is not the character's 'brightest day'
Humorist Frank Gelett Burgess is often credited as having said "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like."
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Preventing web browsers from doing what attackers tell them to
Content Security Policy
I first mentioned Content Security Policy back in April 2009 [4] as an experimental project. The good news is that WebKit-based browsers (Chrome and Safari), Gecko (Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey) and Internet Explorer 10 have partial support [5]. If you want to use it, you'll need to specify three headers to be on the safe side:
X-Content-Security-Policy, and
X-WebKit-CSP, which are used by various browsers and various versions.
If supported, however, the Content Security Policy supports extremely fine grained access permissions. You can specify from where resources like scripts, objects (plugins), stylesheets, images, media, frames, fonts, forms, and so on can be loaded and even specify a
report-uri that tells the web browser where to send information about policy violations. Thus, if a third-party website attempts to trigger a browser to loading protected content that is not permitted, you can in theory be informed by the client, which would allow you to track which sites are being used to attack you.
Unfortunately, most of these security headers are not widely used. For the top 1 million websites (according to Alexa), one report states that roughly 20,000 sites use the
X-Frame-Options header, about 4,000 use the
Access-Control-* headers, about 1,400 use the Strict Transport Security headers to enforce HTTPS, and approximately 100 use Content Security Policies [6]. Saying that these security headers are not widely used is an understatement. Obviously, better support in clients would help, but one area in which support for these headers seems to be really lacking is in most web applications and frameworks. Much like SELinux and other security policies, they'll remain a niche item until things hit a critical mass.
- Chromium STS: http://dev.chromium.org/sts
- The X-Frame-Options response header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Options
- HTTP access control: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS
- "Web Browser Security" by Kurt Seifried, Linux Pro Magazine, April 2009, pg. 64: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2009/101/Security-Lessons
- Content Security Policy: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Content_Security_Policy
- Security Headers on Top 1,000,000 Websites: March 2013 Report: http://www.veracode.com/blog/2013/03/security-headers-on-the-top-1000000-websites-march-2013-report/
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Two people were transported to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center City Division following a head-on car crash on Great Creek Road Saturday afternoon, Feb. 16, Galloway Township Police said.
Gerald Connelly, 29, of Egg Harbor Township, was traveling east on Great Creek Road in a 2005 Chevy Colorado when he when he left his lane and collided head-on with James DiNatale, 27, of Mays Landing, police said.
DiNatale was driving a 2011 Chevy Silverado westbound, and was carrying one passenger, Peter Boruch, 25, of Somers Point. Boruch was treated and released on the scene, according to police.
Connelly was extricated from his car by Bayville volunteer firefighters, police said. Both drivers were taken to the hospital and the road was closed for two hours, police said.


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writer, creator, opinionator
about the author || resume
ashtonhowe at gmail dot com
I've made the inevitable migration over to WordPress. Feel free to browse through the archives here, or check out my brand new site at ashtonhowe.com for up-to-date information and posts.
I'm hopped up on caffeine today, so bear with me.
I love words. I've always loved words. I distinctly remember the excitement of learning new letters in kindergarten each week, being versed enough in 1st grade literature to write short stories and poems about men eating their mittens, tracing loopy cursive in 2nd grade so I no longer had to print like a little kid. My mom was always very articulate with me, never dumbing down her language for my three- or five- or seven-year-old mind. "Don't be so sarcastic, " she'd say. "Stop manipulating your brother." I loved these too-mature words. I'd absorb them, digest their context, and push them back off my tongue in the most inappropriate and defiant ways: "You'ah being sahcastic, mom. Stop manipulating ME." (All with my childhood speech impediment that severely neglected r's).
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You see it seemed natural, then - when I boarded a plane at 18-years-old to tackle the collegiate world in Rome - to define myself eternally as an English major, an artiste, a philosopher of all things creative and ethereal, fedora-donner and espresso-sipper alike. I was a writer. I'd been a writer since I first learned to play Reading Rainbow cassette tapes on my own and felt I could restructure the lessons with more games, less learning. I was born to conquer the verbal world, to rewrite all history pertaining to language, to lull even the most hostile soldiers into tranquility and peace with my poesy and cadence…
Academia seemed to agree. I did extraordinarily well in my literature, writing, and English courses (barring one Shakespeare class wherein I experienced my first and thoroughly-devastating C because my very-British professor detested my use of American Midwestern slang, or because I think Shakespearean plays are particularly superfluous. either/or.), and even did well in non-English courses that involved an ample amount of critical thought and written argument. I was ecstatic, once upon a time, thinking I may just be gifted enough to carve my niche in an otherwise difficult and exclusive area.
there's no high on the crest if you know the trough
no Heaven above if you know Hell
only frenzy, and the idea that
the stars you wish on
are already dead.
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Okay, so it isn't that dramatic. I'm just in a poetic mood today and saw the opportunity for a little shameless self-promotion. Check out my poem "rigid, tasting of saline" in the Walkabout Creative Arts Journal. (sorry.)
But anyway, I'm a writer, and - despite my wavering valor - it's taken me awhile to find comfort in announcing this to the world as an intended profession. In fact, it took me nearly 23 years, a college degree, and a whole slew of positive reinforcement to wield confidence enough to say, "Hey, I'm Ashton. I write." But nonetheless, once I did, this newfound confidence blossomed - perhaps, at times, bordering cocky-wink-and-point behavior - and I began looking forward to graduate school all arrogant-like. I thought, you know, I'm good. Piece of cake. I thought I would surely be accepted into an MA, JD, or MBA program, with the only obstacle remaining being the also piece of cake GRE, LSAT, or GMAT. Because I was the Jim Morrison of English, man.
ETA: (Jim Morrison was really the Jim Morrison of English. Like I said, sometimes cocky-wink-and-point behavior.) (Whatevz.)
So I began to study for all exams at once, high on arrogance and enthusiasm, taking practice tests religiously, strewing note cards across the living room floor to remind myself that chicanery is trickery and malefactors are male (don't take that personally; where's Freud when you need him?), joking playfully about the ridiculousness of it all while simultaneously thinking nbd bro I GOT this.
But, alas, arrogance and enthusiasm are unfortunate traits…
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Here's what happened: despite my passion, despite my perceived talent, despite years spent scribbling poetry and prose on the back of probably-important bills, the plethora of practice tests through Princeton Review and Kaplan knocked me off my fancy-pants throne into an alternate reality by telling me this:
1) Law: You, Ashton, kick ass at the LSAT, and it's unfortunate that you don't actually want to be a lawyer. (why thankya!)
2) Verbal GRE/GMAT: lolol you will not be the next William Faulkner. (wait…)
3) Quantitative GRE/GMAT: We're pretty sure you're Isaac Newton. (WUT?)
In fact, I sat for the real GRE, the one where you go into a testing center, breathe rapidly in front of a godforsaken computer, bleed pent-up knowledge one question at a time RIGHT NOW GIVE ME THE CORRECT ANSWER THIS IS YOUR ONLY CHANCE NO SECOND GUESSING BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GO BACK AND LOOK OVER YOUR WORK HAHAHAHAHA.
It told me the same thing.
So now, here I am, a straight-A English student with a writing degree summa cum laude - possessing a vast portfolio of theses and essays, published poetry and articles - applying to grad school in writing and rhetoric and communications with tests score that trollingly tell the departmental heads I'm actually a mathematician and don't believe a word I say otherwise.
Ah. Heavy is the head who wears the crown.
Wait, that doesn't make sense.
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Anyway, this is the point in the story where it'd be appropriate to rant about the inadequacies of standardized testing, the inappropriate rigidity of boxing intellect into multiple choice questions, the woe of proving your academic potential via timed responses and a glitchy Windows XP OS, but I scored a 34 on the ACT in highschool and can't bash the system too much for fear of negating the pride of that once-awesome and intimately-entwined accomplishment. So I'll just sigh.
Ultimately, this is nothing more than the consequence of our world trying to quantitate creativity, right? Although I'd be lying if I said it hasn't knocked me sidesaddle on my high horse. I'm no longer a fearless Word Warrior, because - for once - I've kinda failed at something relevant. And if we get into the discussion of my inability to find an actual job as a writer, I'll end up fetal position beneath my high horse, shielding myself from the sh*tstorm that is post-undergrad life. But that's no good, and never very healthy for the soul.
I guess I've learned that I need to take the high road with institutions I respect, and the comedic road with institutions that don't respect me. Or don't understand me. Or try to shatter my poetic aspirations just because I'm pretty good at solving for x. Because - in a whirlwind of hipster-level irony - Reagan went on to be President, and Snooki is a New York Times best-selling author (LOL). This world isn't black and white, verbal and quantitative. It's multidimensional, chaotic, and a vast opportunity to follow your passion, discover artistry, pursue that which makes souls sing and rainbows appear in eyeballs. So this is my plan, pithy and keen:
I will henceforth toss guidelines aside, turn my back on fear and disappointment, find that grey area and - no matter the internal and/or external obstacles - paint that sh*t gold.
The end.
Inner and outer discovery are among the most fundamental human instincts. When someone asks me over a shared pint at the local pub - spirits high on hops and good company and the pleasant drone of conversation - what I do, I tell them this: I search.
I've spent my whole life oscillating between the extremes of movement and stillness. The hanging, middle moments of the slow motion pendulum-swing are, to me, nothing but opportunities for collection, for refueling. Life occurs in these moments, as it does in all moments, but I've yet to find fulfillment here. During these times, auto-pilot's enacted: I eat, I sleep, I work for the financial capacity to return, once more, to the poles.
I hike, run, snowboard and ski, practice yoga and meditation to remind myself that I am human, remind myself that I am alive. To break from the monotony of socioeconomic necessity, I push myself physically, mentally, emotionally to the brink of action, to the dark recesses of quiet in search of beyond. I've walked, foot before foot, up steep mountain ascents to get their good tidings; I've spent days in downward dog, searching for answers to the "Who?" and "Why?"; I've waded through pools at the bottom of wind-and-water-carved canyons in contemplation of everything that is and all that will never be; but I was still hungry.
And then, at the urging of good friends, I decided to try taking hand and foot to stone, flesh to granite, adrenaline-fueled capillaries to high-rockface air… and here, I'm beginning to find understanding.
It's difficult to describe that moment, soaring above the worry of civilization, sweat coalescing into droplets on sunburned skin and brow, searching for a way to pull yourself once more into a secure foothold, secure grip, secure anything. Those who've climbed longer, harder, higher than I have know this truth: in that moment, nothing exists but breath and clarity. Nothing exists but heartbeat and muscular exhaustion, the endless will to conquer, survive. The mind zooms in, the world, out; color's seen for the first time, lost ancestral strength is rediscovered, and one more pull with bleeding hands, push with trembling legs, breaks you through to what can only be described as eternity.
I know that Buddhism teaches that eternity abounds. It's there, in your coffee. It's there, reflecting minuscule fractals of truth in the suds of an emptying shower drain. It's there, always, but so difficult sometimes to recognize because of the noise inherent to refueling, inherent to need, inherent to the in between. I don't mean to discount this, and deeply admire all who find God's smile in a batch of freshly-washed laundry.
I hope to learn that bliss, and think I may have finally discovered my path.
After years of exploration, years of sitting quietly with my breath, years of consuming literature and philosophy and cultural context, I've found rock. Pushing myself through to the clarity of exhaustion, the clarity of uncertainty and, ultimately, the clarity of self-trust, has led me to a route toward God. And although each path is unique, each person their own guide, if you've gone to the ends of earth and back looking for reassurance that this Universe is alive, if you've studied the candle's flame with intent and focus and still haven't found what you're looking for, I humbly suggest this: climb.
Okay, so being an "Apologist" has little to do with actually apologizing, unless you count the situations wherein people apologize profusely to themselves for having to deal with the majority of people who couldn't care less about their Apologetic stance, but wordplay in spite of logic sells (see: Lil Wayne). In fact, Apologetics is fundamentally a branch of theology pursued in defense of Christianity, but is modernly extended to all branches of whatever that involve defending a controversial point of view, systematically, with information. Consequently, it now also pertains to a defensive method of argument, even if that argument defends the ridiculous beheading of Lord Stark by, His Grace, Joffrey Baratheon/Lannister (that bastard). Cry out in defense of something, in the face of controversy, via the dissemination of whatever information's at hand, and BOOM — you're an Apologist. Makes you feel important, right?
As I continue the hunt for a company who'll accept an offer to trade my impressive capacity for the English language for their impressive capacity to pay my rent, I have to consider whether or not my very public defensive approach (rhetorically and social-media speaking) to almost everything is to blame for my inability to find le job that pays more than $10/hr. Am I considered a liability because I readily share the random opinions that float wildly through my head every time I watch a questionable Presidential candidate tout the future of America through euphemism and doublespeak, rather than keep my mouth shut while facepalming? Well, maybe.
It was so much easier two decades ago, what with a lack of social media to immediately defame your otherwise hard-earned academic and professional reputation. Google and Facebook didn't exist, and potential employers had to rely on resumes and the good word of acquaintances when deciding whether or not you were employable. But now - with Internet access, a search engine, and a few clicks - prospective employers can spend hours questioning your character from the easily-accessible photos of you drinking a yard-stick-sized beverage in Vegas that one and only time you ventured to Sin City to - mostly, really - bear witness to an extravagant Cirque du Soleil unavailable in your town of residence, population 10,000.
There are now apps, and a plethora of start-ups, that specialize in making you look like a raging alcoholic, based solely on that one bachelor party, that one baby shower where the host went to extensive lengths to make the non-alcoholic drinks appear to be straight ethanol and male-stripper blood, and that one time in Cabo in 2006 that you'd really rather forget because it was genuinely a bad idea.
The information is out there. Your life, in digital format, is accessible. And there are some people who might use this information to strip you of everything for which you've worked exhaustively throughout your entire life.
But is this fair?
What we seem to forget, when judging someone by their online presence, is that online presence cannot always be contextually trusted. It may be an extension of our face-to-face life, but - inane-Twitter-trend participants aside - few people behave with the decorum online (or lack thereof) that they would in a face-to-face setting. Our online environment is a release from daily obligation, an experience that allows us to tap into our social being, to connect with other humans, worlds away, via textual thought, opinion, and articulated belief. It's casual. We don't wear a suit and tie to log into Facebook.
Shouldn't we, then, come to some agreement that all people are people,and that casual life - while potentially influential - more often than not bares no influence on professional and/or academic life?
I'm not speaking of those who parade illegal drug use around Instagram like it's their only redeeming quality in life; I'm speaking of those who work hard, even when not explicitly rewarded, to make their lives and the lives of others better… who stay late on a Friday night to finish up a report for their boss that could be finished on Monday, but want to help their work environment run smoother, more efficiently, nonetheless.
We are all humans, perhaps overly-excited by the most influential technology of all time, who really just want to contribute to the accelerating pace of global success. At least I am. One tweet at a time.
That said, I just can't come to terms with censorship in the face of difficult economic times. My opinions are mine and mine alone, and I'll hold them whether or not they're publicized to a handful of people who actually care. Shouldn't we celebrate individual thought? Creativity? Awareness enough of the surrounding world to participate in national, global discourse?
I say yes. But if you say no, that's okay. And I apologize.
The thing is that I knew better than to throw myself head over heels back into a lifestyle too turbulent for the frailty of my soul, but there's that lurking anxiety to do everything and all things at once. That too-quick pace that sends you spinning into the bathroom on a Saturday night because you tried to keep up with others who, no matter your own power, have a strength that you do not. What of time to stop and think about this whirl-winded life? to lay and watch tree branches scratch the bottom of the sky without the anguish of knowing there's no success in laying, watching branches? It's a lot, you see, to rectify the ancient pace of wonderment with the ever-chaotic movement of our forward-leaning world, and the fear of mounting debt and unmet obligations keeps a fire lit beneath us that no longer excites. It burns.
And I wonder, now, while watching kindred spirits spiral wildly out of control, what's left for those of us who want to live rather than move. What room is there for us who need to pause in the midst of this stampede, to breathe for a moment the invigorating scent of existence? It's an arbitrary and anti-climactic pace whose momentum thrusts to the bottom of uncertainty and confusion all who find value in aesthetics, philosophy, the quiet contemplation of springtime air through leaves. There is beauty in progress, beauty in discovering at a maddening pace the secrets of our universe, but beauty also in the ethereal being of unknowing. We have our politics and our economy, our science and our business, a telecommunicative ability that surpasses everything predecessors knew, but we have also a bureaucratic nightmare, a crisis of the soul, spawned from the replacing of imagination with quantitative result.
And even still, it's a useless cry. There's no escaping machination or, my god, we would. There's only occasional respite found in shutting out the drone, with alcohol and substance, with retreat and forgetting, for one long second, the inadequacies of believing there's something more.
This is all mental masturbation, I know. Self-indulgent and futile because the individual perspective is no longer valued. This will make no money, revolutionize no process, contribute nothing to the sociocultural hierarchy of one-upmanship and outdoing the Joneses, but it's still here, in its own right, as a voice among many. It's a contribution, small as it may be, wrought from perception and heart and a smoldering desire to unearth meaning..
I don't mean to be cynical. I don't mean
to be the glass-is-half-empty girl, captious,
postmodern-passé, but sometimes, you know
because light travels at a finite speed
the star you wish on is already dead.
I oscillate wildly between optimism and uncertainty. I understand that life is inherently unpredictable, and that trying to control everything around me often ends with my undernourished body on the apartment floor, eyes shut against the world, overwhelmed by a crushing sense of forced relinquishment. I'm not really sure what I expect from myself, why I constantly force my mind to the brink of madness as though the human soul can readily survive on caffeinated overdrive and the fleeting reinforcement of external success. Where am I even trying to go, anyway?
I'm doing well, in the cultural sense of the idea. I'm back in school, achieving the best grades I physically can, and I find the topics I'm studying generally interesting. But on solitary nights, when everything slows enough for reflection to set in, and I realize that I'm - in all truth - nonetheless an unemployed 25-year-old, I can't help but feel like I've failed somewhere along the way.
There's the memetic temptation to blame "the economy," to blame the era into which I emerged with my credentials, but I can't accept that. Releasing personal responsibility to outside circumstance is the easy way out, and a general paradigm with which I disagree. So I keep on, putting one foot in front of the other, working my way up this seemingly endless stairway to an undefined end, pacifying myself with the promise that I will — someday — meet grandeur.
And even this, this little bit of catharsis, is nothing more than self-indulgent drivel. There's no monumental offering here, save perhaps a voice to which someone else can relate. My spark is fizzling; my enthusiasm is growing tired beneath the weight of a brawny and relentless stress. But I have to keep hoping. And maybe there's something to be said for the quiet determination that pulls me bleary-eyed from bed each morning to challenge, once more, this chaotic wake of life-passing-quickly. Perhaps there's something to be said for the strength required to pick myself up from the frighteningly-comfortable notion of settling and - even if apprehensively - keep going. Perhaps, in general, there's something to be said for human resolve, something beautiful about the inner capacity to overcome, and something intricately fantastic about wanting to live up to one's full potential…
Or perhaps it's all for naught.
In times like these, I really wish I could just RTFM.
Gasped breath turned stale in the back of my throat, sour,
a metallic regurgitation of past heartbreak tossing
my innards into knots, certainty into denial of solid ground
all over again. The sun through half-closed blinds intruded
— as I, too, had so clearly intruded
upon your unlit secret. Your rawest deceit.
I could no longer remember how to stand, and you
couldn't find the words because there weren't any.
So I collapsed
into the cruelty of circumstance,
as hundreds of passersby
pretended not to notice,
I howled.
I'm acutely aware of how all status-quo-challenging ideas are thrown through the cultural spin cycle until they come out as shrunken caricatures of themselves. I'm also acutely aware of how it's these caricatures, rather than the original concepts, that are paraded across mainstream media until they become so commonplace that people mistake this distorted view as truth. This happens all the time: Communist, for example, is now a derogatory term within contemporary political rhetoric, having little to do anymore with socially-philosophical beliefs embedded in Marxism, and more to do with being a Freedom-Hating Job Killer; a Terrorist is no longer strictly a person who violates the basic rights of other human beings, but anyone who questions the two American religions of Christianity and Capitalism; Feminist, similarly, has become a disparaging term, used contextually not to celebrate the power of Woman, but to belittle those who challenge historical patriarchy.
So when I shy away from defining myself explicitly as a Feminist, or joke facetiously about identifying with Feminism, it's not without reason. While I believe firmly in the exaltation of the female species to at least a position of equality with Man, I'm nonetheless cautious of where my public allegiances lie: writing directly as a Feminist will have my argument more quickly dismissed than writing as one who indirectly supports feminist ideals.
It's sad, sure, but that's how our world works, and one of the most important things to remember about challenging the status quo is that opposition framed from within the context of the current paradigm has a better chance of being accepted. Baby steps.
Why the lengthy qualification? Well, I've been thinking a lot lately about the use of feminine sexuality-as-power, and have erected some talking points that align with my Feminist position. I don't, however, want my Feminist position to be incorrectly placed at the center of the discussion; it's this nearly-unavoidable shift in focus that serves time and again as the primary obstacle to all arguments drawn from the Other. So let's just say this: yes, I am a Feminist, but my following perspectives are not because I am a Feminist; my following perspectives outline why I identify with Feminism.
This all started with recent conversations among friends that dealt with the female use of sexual prowess to attain status. When I say "sexual prowess" I don't mean the simple fact of identifying with the female gender or enjoying sex as a woman; I mean the use of push-up bras and ass-shaking to break through the glass ceiling. My initial reaction toward these tactics was one of disgust; I was raised to strive for success as a woman through hard work and intellect. I saw firsthand the complications of deriving strength-as-Woman from Man when my mother was left penniless and without career experience after my father walked out. And, as my own history dictates, I've struggled continuously for the right to be taken seriously in spite of a symmetrical face and an appealing waist-to-hip ratio (two of the most basal determining factors of female attractiveness). I've always viewed men's inherent sexualization of me as an impediment; I am a female, but I am not a sex object.
As such, the idea of having something handed to me just because my physical appearance plays on a male's reptilian brain makes me queasy. I want to own my success, to derive pride from the strength it takes me to achieve. But, while working through these conclusions, I couldn't help but wonder: can the use of sexual femininity in order to succeed be a form of achievement itself?
There's always the argument that utilizing one's attractiveness in order to get ahead is a form of empowerment. This is the argument that positions strippers and prostitutes in the place of Superior, rather than Subordinate; the controversy that fuels the Feminist Sex Wars and leaves first- and second-wave Feminism disoriented and mumbling no no no…that's not what we meant.
So perhaps my personal conflict here really is just another fan to the tumultuous flame of Female Sexuality, but - saturated as this discussion may be - I still think it's important.
I understand being comfortable with and proud of one's physical appearance. I will never decry a woman who uses her physical body as a source of strength for herself, as a reminder that she is beautiful and capable. My problem here lies in the use of this strength for the benefit of other people; specifically: Man. There's a stark difference between using the confidence derived from the celebration of femininity to excel in one's work, and using one's femininity explicitly to get things from men. How? Well, the result of the former is success-through-work-ethic, and the latter is success-through-exploitation. When everything is said and done, both methods "succeed," but success-through-work-ethic does so without intensifying the obstacles through which women already have to socially jump.
Each time a woman shakes her ass and bats her eyelashes for a dollar, for a free drink, for a promotion, she reinforces the cultural perspective of women as sex objects, which inherently reinforces Woman's social position of inferiority. It doesn't matter if that specific instance leads to success for that specific woman; the meta-repercussions here are still detrimental. Having something thrust upon you and subsequently accepting it because it's to your current advantage is one thing - accepting an unsolicited free drink, for example - but working coyly to use suggestive sexuality as a form of currency is exploitative. As my boyfriend so bluntly puts it, it's whore mentality. (The use of the word "whore" here is certainly a whole separate post, and not something with which I directly agree, but it's a poignant conclusion nonetheless.)
Let me clarify: being sexual and celebrating your body does not make you a whore; being sexual and celebrating your body as a form of currency doesn't make you a whore either (largely because of my own issues with the contemporary definition of this word), but it does damage our collective ability to rise above the default sex-object position into which patriarchy thrusts us. The way men see it is: if it looks like a sex doll and acts like a sex doll, it probably is a sex doll. And that limits all of us.
We're so much more than tits and ass. Sure, let's celebrate them, embrace them, stop trying to starve them away, but let's also use them as a form of strength for ourselves. Every time we use them as a cheap tool for a cheap drink, we devalue our true capacity for success. Because of the way in which our society currently functions, it's easy to get from A to B by piggybacking on male attention, but real success will never be achieved by taking this easy way out.
So, you know, go to school. Read. Stay abreast of contemporary politics. Contribute something to this world as a human being, rather than as a pair of good-lookin legs in stilettos. Essentially, I guess… man up*.
*(Facetiousness is facetious.)
Today's one of those days that started with obstinate ice on my windshield and continued with each otherwise-trivial obstacle piggybacking its predecessor until all of a sudden frozen gusts of wind were sandblasting my cheeks as I walked home from campus at sunset and goddammit I couldn't even remember to bring a scarf so how did I expect to get through a Computer Science degree?
It's one of those days where it's hard to believe I packed my life into two 50-pound suitcases at the age of 18 and moved to Italy on my own; one of those days where any tales I tell about living in Rome or Lugano and traveling through Amsterdam or the Alps seem spoken from dissociated lips, the words and memories someone else's. Today is one of those days where I do not feel like a girl who's lived in four different countries in the past six years, who's graduated at the top of her undergraduate class, a published poet, world traveler who's already acquired enough experience through the death and rebirth of relationships for three lifetimes.
Instead, it's one of those days I came home and ate a sleeve of Newman O's while trying not to cry.
For someone who's spent the last six years of her life wandering unconventionally toward adulthood, I really don't do very well with change. I like structure. I like order. I like rules and definitions and rigid expectations. I like predictability. Even in my writing - seemingly free verse and open - there's always the perfect number of vowels to balance consonants, just enough parallel alliteration, never an extra comma. I do well with patterns.
You'd think, then, that returning to school for something as finite and inflexible as Computer Science would be right up my alley. And you'd be right - it is; but for some reason, as I sat among engineering and physics and applied mathematics students today in class, I freaked. There I was, two nose rings and nearly-pink-from-henna hair, taking differential calculus notes on loose-leaf that was littered with bits and pieces of little poems that couldn't, bracelets clinking rhythmically each time I lifted my pencil, imagining steps of derivation as metered lines of a sonnet, and it hit me: what the hell was I doing in the engineering center?
With a preference for rigid expectations comes the unavoidable application of said-expectations to oneself, and I suddenly realized how little I fit.
There's no philosophical growth here, no poetic waxing on the value of overcoming fear, no ultimate existential point. There's nothing besides the fact that I'm terrified. I really have nothing to offer you aside from the declaration that I've never pushed myself this far outside of my daintily-artistic comfort zone, and I'm currently experiencing a huge death-of-ego thing right now. It's scary, it's overwhelming, if I keep coping with cookies I'm gonna put on the freshman 15 at age 25, and I'm sorry for otherwise wasting your time. I'll do better tomorrow, and I guess that's all any of us can really strive for.
The end.
I really love found poetry, blackout poetry, etc. The whole idea of discovering a new poetic voice within something to which someone else has already given life is a beautiful concept in my opinion; it really highlights the cooperative and communal potential of art.
I've recently started practicing a variation of found poetry, wherein I don't unearth an entire poem from a single source, but rather pull from multiple, thematically-related sources. People probably do this all this time, but I've only recently considered it an option. Here's one of the first pieces I've constructed:
(Normal text is taken from Katie Makkai's "Pretty"; bold text is from Anis Nin's "Shake the Dust"; italicized text is taken from Ani Difranco's "Self-evident.")
Will I be pretty? Will I be pretty?
Will I be wanted?
This is for you
Fermented and distilled
With a leanness of meaning
Wallowing on bar stools
Gym class wall flowers
A poetic specter so far gone that
Speak half-English and half-God
Prowl 30 stores in 6 malls to
Speak only when you are spoken to
Burn both ends
Committing countless crimes again
To love
To perpetuate retribution
Will I be pretty?
With perfectly made dinners
A shrill fluorescent floodlight of worry
For the hells
We have painted ourselves
Will I be wanted?
Fingertips trembling
Between the setup and the punch line
Will I be pretty?
A young woman's voice
Blood pumping
Approaching hyper-distillation
Stung-stayed with insecurity
Crest-fallen because not enough strangers found you suitably fuckable


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