Blog clean-up

I just finished removing all the blog labels from last semester in order to clear the way for a new semester of blogging to come. It's kind of tedious to go through and remove the old labels (which is why I always recommend to returning students that they just start a new blog), but at the same time it was fun to look back through last semester and all the fun things I got to do for the class. This semester I am excited again because I am ready to drabble-ize the Indian Epics and other Indian storytelling too. I'm not quite sure how that is going to work... but I'm having so much fun with the whole drabble project so far, and the idea of taking the gigantic epics and thinking about them as microstories sounds both hard and also fun. :-)

I'll get around to real posts for the semester tomorrow and on Friday, so for now, I will just say: HAPPY NEW YEAR. Hello, 2020!

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Test post for David

Hi David, feel free to use the version I published too; I can leave that up in my space, no problem. Here is the iframe way to put that in a blog post, and you can copy and use the code I've pasted in below at the bottom of the page here:



Here is the code (screenshot):

Here's the file name so you can copy-and-paste:

https://lauragibbs.net/dw/The%20CRM%20Trail.html

Widget for Nancy

Here is the script in action; reload to see another random saying:

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Generic Uttara

Here are some more tiny Ramayana stories, just 100 words each, focusing on the epic backstory as narrated in the Uttara Kanda of the Ramayana (the final book which tells what happens when Rama and Sita return to Ayodhya along with a ton of backstory):

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Bibliography.

Title is from Uttara Kanda: Sarga ___.

The links here are to the Uttara Kanda translated by M. N. Dutt, which is available online, although I am using Arshia Sattar's translation as my main source.