www.inkthinkerblog.com — Have you ever thought about how weird Halloween actually is? All year long we tell our kids not to take candy from strangers, and then on October 31, we dress them up in bizarre outfits and take them door to door in the dark to beg for treats from folks they don’t know. Think of it this way: If your neighbors hung a corpse mannequin from the tree in their front yard, set up Styrofoam headstones with severed limbs strewn about, and played a motion-activated recording of spooky sounds from their front porch in May, you’d think they were insane; if they do it in October, they’re clever.
Prompt: Take a common tradition, like Halloween, and analyze it by breaking it into its component parts and discussing them individually. What do you discover? What do you think it says about tradition and society in general? How, if at all, does it change how you view the tradition?
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www.inkthinkerblog.com — This spring, I participated in a survey by the Freelancers Union. Here, with their permission, are some of what they have identified as the highlights of the results:
- 3% of respondents feel that elected officials understand what being a freelancer is like; 10% feel that the media understand.
- 92% of respondents are registered voters; 90% have voted in a national election in the last 5 years.
- 94% of respondents feel that freelancers deserve more equitable tax treatment.
- 80% of respondents who experienced periods without health insurance avoided medical care during that time.
- 79% of respondents would be willing to pay to get access to an unemployment insurance program.
The full report is available online here.
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www.inkthinkerblog.com — …yes, I know I’m supposed to be in school right now. I’ve been feeling lightheaded all day, and now my head hurts, and the thought of driving 50 miles to school, being in school for three hours, and then driving 50 miles back was more than I could bear today. Blah. This is me, lying on the couch for the rest of the night (and no, my living room doesn’t look like that, but I sure wish it did!).
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www.inkthinkerblog.com — This just struck me as so funny.
Subject: martial law six-pack
I’ve got a few half written posts that I haven’t published yet so maybe something will actually get written. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. I was pretty worried when I installed the new hardware and still couldn’t get the computer to boot properly.
After that the gun shot wonderfully. He is already bringing lots of joy to our household. So, I bought a new one from Best Buy and put it in there but the computer still behaved just as slow and buggy. If not, they’ll probably remain in draft form for a few months until I delete them. The GFL is a concealed carry permit. The first shot fired fine.
It’s something I can thankfully say I hadn’t experienced before then. Of course, they ruined that by not returning my call like they said they would when I was going to accept that deal. Actually, with Georgia law it’s just a carry permit since the law allows both open and concealed carry with the GFL.
We’ve had him for three weeks now. So, that means either it is not the power supply or when the power supply went bad it fried something else as well.
Actually, with Georgia law it’s just a carry permit since the law allows both open and concealed carry with the GFL. It completely changes the way you watch television.
I think there is a club around here that allows non-members to shoot occasionally so I may have to borrow my dad’s gun again and go check it out. I think the only thing I’ve watched live since we got the DVR is the news. I’ve got a few half written posts that I haven’t published yet so maybe something will actually get written. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
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Me: [brilliant and insightful question]
Source: [half of a brilliant and insightful answer] —
Pickles: — [spontaneous frantic barking] —
Source: — Are you being attacked or something?
Me: Uh, no, that’s just my puppy.
Source: What is it doing?
Me: We’re potty training her right now and I think she’s trying to tell me that she has to go potty. Can you hang on a sec?
Source: [sounding amused] Sure.
Me: Pickles, let’s go outside!
Pickles: [ignoring me, continuing to bark frantically]
Me: Pickles, come here! [squeezing squeaky toy]
Source: [trying not to laugh]
Me: Okay, maybe she just had a bad dream.
Source: Yeah, that happens to me sometimes, too.
Me: [dying small death] Well anyway, you were saying…
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