Lana V Lynx
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Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
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Your Letter of Recommendation Could be Here
Recently, I see a lively debate around the value of the letters of recommendation. Do they still do anything? Are they worth writing and submitting? Do they have a value for those who read them? As someone who requests, writes, and reads many letters of recommendation (hereinafter LORs for simplicity) for both myself, my students, and (potential) colleagues, let me assure you that they still have a lot of weight in higher education, government agencies, and sometimes non-profits.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Education
Light, Horseshoe and Creative Spirit
Disclaimer: This story was partially written with the help of AI. The neon lights of the urban cityscape flickered through the rain-soaked window as Luna stared at the holographic billboard across the street. She was a 15-year-old girl with a restless spirit, always yearning for adventure in a world that seemed to have lost its magic. It was the year 2050, and life had become a series of monotonous routines, information overload right inot people's brains, and virtual distractions.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Fiction
Old Couple and a Dog
I am traveling back to my home country of Kyrgyzstan, for the first time since 2018. Sitting at JFK Terminal 1 now, waiting for the Turkish Air to open the counters for flight registration. This is my least favorite terminal at JFK: it hosts most international airlines, has very small and narrow waiting area for the departure flights with “only ticketed passengers” warning signs and virtually no seats. I have too large bags, so my mobility is limited and the elevator to the food court is not working. I’ve managed to find a seat in front of the counters I need, and won’t get up for fear of losing it. Lots of people come and go, I forgot how many people can travel internationally at the same time. I still have over 7 hours before my flight and time is suspended. I take out my laptop to write.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Humans
Mermaid Riding Motorcycle
For the Word Hunt challenge, I picked the words MOTORCYCLE, MERMAID, and SOLSTICE from the prompt. I have decided to continue developing my small universe of the Absurd crossed over with the Russian fairy tales that I started in the Remove That Hex story. You should be able to understand this story without reading the first one, but I highly recommend doing it for full context. Please keep in mind that this is a prequel to the events in the first story.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Fiction
Modern Russian Propaganda Street Art
May 14, 2023: pro-war “Z-patriotic” Russian street artists Sasha Montlevivh and Alexey Chizhov sprayed a triptych of Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov, Wagner chief Evgeny Prigozhin, and Vladimir Putin on the Kadyrov bridge in St.Petersburg, Russia. Referring to a classical Soviet triptych of Marx, Engels, and Lenin (below), the graffiti suggests KPP are the founders of the Russian “New Order.”
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Fiction
Identity and Communication
We all go through life wondering who we really are and who we want to be when we grow up. Identity -- the idea and image of self that makes us both distinct from and similar to other people -- is something that we become acutely aware of in teenage years and carry with us all our life. Some of it is the unshakable baggage we are saddled with at birth, but much of it is being shaped by experiences, interactions, and communication with other people, by life itself.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Humans
Rebecca's New Love Interest
Rebecca Welton’s new love interest in Ted Lasso is a mysterious handsome nameless Dutchman and I’m all in for the ride. Rebecca is one of my favorite characters on the show. She is, in fact, the core of the show as it is based on the premise that Rebecca, who got the London’s Richmond football club in a divorce settlement from her “asshole” of a rich cheating husband named Rupert Mannion, hired Ted Lasso of Kansas, who knew nothing about soccer, as the head coach deliberately, to ruin the club – Rupert’s favorite toy – and blame the failure on the clueless American.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Geeks
Rebecca Welton's Love Life
I am working on a review of the most recent Ted Lasso episode which I will publish here soon. My process was somewhat messy: I watched the episode several times, jotting down some key ideas, details and character lines. Then I decided to experiment with the ChatGPT and asked it to write a 600-word essay using my raw material. Granted, my thoughts were somewhat disconnected and out of sequence, I was still shocked by the result. I think it could very well be an alternative version for fanfic. Judge it for yourselves, below is the story in its entirety (about 60 words short of 600, so the chatbot has close to human college students' estimates of the essay length).
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Geeks
