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🍬Candywyn🎶

, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.

La Bene Vita

I am a professional musician, teacher

, (former) worship leader

, small business owner

, songwriter

, aspiring author

and freelance nonfiction writer

with a chemical engineering degree

.

But that's just my resume. My eclectic profile of vocations is only one of the ways in which I am uniquely me.

Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the business I run, I am always a work in progress.

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Amethyst Snow Angel

Nov 21, 2025 at 5:52am
In response to "I Asked Google Gemini For a More Current Metaphor"

Dying Airpods... Oh the horrors

Those little wireless earbuds always die at the best parts

with that little downbeat two note beep

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Jay O'Toole

Nov 20, 2025 at 9:34pm
In response to "I Asked Google Gemini For a More Current Metaphor"

I especially like the one about the Rubik's Cube

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Storm Machine

Nov 20, 2025 at 9:31pm
In response to "I Asked Google Gemini For a More Current Metaphor"

now we HAVE to find a rogue Furby.

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Storm Machine

Nov 19, 2025 at 9:51pm
In response to "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

Agree with Jeff.

Will add that there are authors who are copyrighted? because they have published novels, at least on Amazon if not other places, where chunks or more have been written with AI.

I'm sure as some of those lawsuits are decided we will learn more about this whole thing.

Jeff

Nov 19, 2025 at 11:54am
In response to "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

Generally speaking, using AI for research purposes is not considered copyright infringement. Using AI output in the creative work itself can be considered infringement, depending on the AI model used and the data it was trained on. Pretty much every major AI model is currently defending against multiple active, ongoing lawsuits over copyright infringement for training their model on other people's intellectual property without permission.

In your specific case (and with the caveat that this is not legal advice), I personally think it's relatively low risk because common phrasing is generally not copyrightable. In order for someone to have a legitimate claim of copyright infringement, they first have to demonstrate that they own the material in question... and I don't know that anyone can claim to own generic, nonspecific, widely-used slang or idioms.

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tj's-jingle-jingling; Ho Ho Ho

Nov 19, 2025 at 9:34am
In response to "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

I say that if the information is there for public use, then it's not protected under copyright laws. My thoughts, not facts.

I saw Mommy kissing Dave Ryan

Nov 9, 2025 at 5:31am
In response to "Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing"

A few years ago I read a novel - An Instance Of The Fingerpost

- which, on the surface, was a historical whodunnit told through the eyes of four unreliable narrators. It was in four sections, each written from the point of view of one of the narrators, and it was only when you got to the final section that you realised that, not only was the last narrator actually pretty damn reliable, but there had been something "other" going on the whole time and the murder that had appeared to be the central event was in fact a bit of a side-show.

I did not see it coming, and when I realised when it was all about, I was initially a bit annoyed by it. But, on reflection, it was very well done and didn't telegraph the ending it any way. So it can be done, but it'll take a lot of hard work to do it well, especially if you're making frequent POV switches.

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Soldier_Mike

Nov 8, 2025 at 10:16pm
In response to "Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing"

I've never tried writing anything from more than two perspectives - and that only rarely. Your situation, though, reminds me of the 2008 political action thriller Vantage Point. Parts of the action are revealed from the vantage point of Forest Whitaker's character, who was videotaping the event with his hand-held camcorder. Interesting, to say the least.

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Storm Machine

Nov 2, 2025 at 6:37am
In response to "Dear Me 2018: Foreshadowing"

I recently revisited a Dear Me (2018) letter, and it made me glad I've come so far in my life. I'm really glad you have the proper diagnosis and that you're finding yourself doing the things that make you happy. Overachievers and scope creepers unite!

Waltz Invictus

Oct 27, 2025 at 10:06pm
In response to "Why I Never Finish Anything"

Or maybe it's that there's no such thing as a happy ending; there are only stories that you stop telling too early.

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January 13, 2012 at 8:47am

#744088

Friday

BALANCE
Work goals:
Blog at MT.com : Done.

Year-end closeout: In progress.
Sign-in process for students: In progress with the help of a code-savvy customer.
Judge Ohio Idol videos: Done.

Writing goals
Performance Evaluations: 6 down, 9 to go, with statistics to gather and 750 Words to write yet today. I plan on using the words to write two more evaluations, but right now, I'm thinking of playing a video game instead.
Character Inventory: Scheduled today... but I can't decide if I feel like it.

Set one song to music: Done.

"100 Times"

[ASR]

Church goals
None. In fact, sometimes I wonder if I'm not close to done with that job. I'm not nearly as enthusiastic as I used to be, and I hate to think it's becoming a chore. At eleven years, it's the longest-running position I've ever with any employer, ever, and my employment history would show that I can't hang with a job more than a few years without getting bored. I like variety. I can't leave yet, but the seeds are there.

Family goals
None. *shrug* Went to the grocery store yesterday, and I suppose I could do some laundry today.

They need to make disposable clothes like they make disposable plates and flatware.

BODY
Health goals
Weight: 174.8
Exercise: No!! Good grief, we got dumped on with snow overnight.
Yesterday's points: 28... pretty damn good!

GROWTH
Business Growth
Reach 400 students at MTMS by 12/31/12: 233.5

Music Log
Yesterday, I practiced: Piano: Scarlatti's Sonata in Dm; Guitar: "100 Times"

[ASR]
Yesterday, I listened to: Nope.
This week, I performed at: Pending.
Songwriting progress: Pending.

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