Re: Whining and drivel...the final frontier

Subject: Re: Whining and drivel...the final frontier
From: Virginia Krenn <asdxvlk -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 09:14:37 CDT

Gus,

I accept your apology.

One question, though. I and several of my colleagues here at Oklahoma
State University are wondering who this Barry Switzer fellow is that you
mentioned. One fellow said that he thought that he used to be associated
with Oklahoma University down south of here but that he had moved even
further south across the Texas border. 8-)

Virginia

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Author: Gus Lemming <lemming -at- pts -dot- mot -dot- com> at SMTP

To the technical documentation world:

Thanks to all who directly responded to my last thread. Consider me well
spanked.

To Virginia: sorry for the badly aimed thread. I'm not sure, however, if there
is
a Santa Claus.

To Oklahoma: you truly are OK (with the possible exception of Barry Switzer).

To the bit.listserv.techwr host cpu at Oklahoma State: bleep, bleep, bloop.

The sun was in my eyes. My dog ate my homework. I am sharing the same brain
with
my officemate, and he was using it that day. I ingested an unusally large dose
of
monitor phosphor through my pupils, and was prone that entire day to episodes of
stream of consciousness.

Sorry to anyone offended. I was just trying to inject some levity. In some
cases I suppose, it turned out to be tavern-level humor. I violated one of the
rules of any writer worth their snuff; know your audience.

It reminds me of my technical writing professor. This guy was really cool.
He was my college's writer in residence for a year, and he came from the real
world.
You know, not like so many professors who couldn't deal with reality and escaped
to
a life of academia. Every now and then, he used to come over to my house for
beers,
and I would pick his brain with all these wide-eyed questions about life after
graduation.

Anyway, not only did this guy teach tech writing, he was a published author too.
And I really wanted to do some kind of creative writing, even if it was writing
copy for an ad agency (which I did for a few years). However, I was uncertain
if I could really do it, so I would also ask many questions about tech writing.
I'll always remember what he said, "Chase your dreams. Don't worry about
technical
writing, it will always be there." I think I now know exactly what he was
saying.

Do the following:

1. Take care,

Gus Lemming


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