Steven E. Wedel

Went down to Norman today and talked to the Norman Galaxy of Writers. It was a fun group. I gave my “Dead Babies Count” speech. This was the first time I’d given outside a classroom setting. Without the in-class writing assignments it came up a bit short on time, but I filled in by talking…

I’m still pissed about the job situation. To be fair, the VP is working on a request for a major grant and the foundation keeps changing how much the university can ask for, so he has to keep rewriting the request. He’s under a lot of stress. So am I, but I’m a peon. The…

Major, major depression this evening. Had another talk with the VP at work. Outlined how I’m doing the work of two directors and picking up the slack for other PR people, etc. etc. He turned it around and explained how he’s doing things for departments not under his jurisdiction. I smiled and nodded and said…

Late to work today. Kim’s uncle died so she went to the funeral in Enid. I’m home waiting to take Sara to school before I leave for work. Yesterday didn’t go as planned. My department was pulled in to the VP’s office for the meeting we’d been expecting. It was Feb. 1, the day he…

My 10-year-old daughter told me the other day that one of her classmates asked her: “Aren’t you rich since your dad writes all those books?” Yes. That’s why I drive a 1998 Kia Sephia. I haven’t discussed my writing finances much in this blog. That’s because a lot of it is embarrassing. My first pubication…

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Here at OCU our admissions people and a company named STAMATES actually came up with a recruiting campaign called TGIM. I think the concept is asanine. The whole concept of “Thank God it’s Monday” is dumb. Even if you consider the justification that students come here to get a job they’ll love, there’s still the…

Another week in the can. Today wasn’t so bad. Wouldn’t have been bad at all, but I had those freelance articles to work on. I got two of my three assignments done. On the third, the people would’t return my calls, so I couldn’t write it. Whatever. I think one of the two I did…

It was raining when I woke up this morning. The rain was mixed with weak snowflakes after my shower. When I went to get in the car the air was filled with big, fat, wet snow. It diminished a little as I drove the 20 (or so) miles to work, but now it’s back. I…

I stirred up another hornet’s nest on the Shocklines message board late yesterday and into today. Someone I consider an online friend made a post about the secretary of education pulling funding from PBS for some cartoon show that has two lesbian couples in it. He called for people to sign an online petition protesting…