now:

Watch me spend the final hour of my ominous deadline looking for a paperclip.

and the wind blew and the snow snowed

However, as fictionalized accounts with the persuasive goal of claiming territory and power, these mainstream disciplinary histories are inherently incomplete: “we tend to avoid unseemliness when telling familial stories” (Ianetta and Fredal, p. 186). Indeed, while the story of technical communication as a historically interdisciplinary field smoothes over our “persistent disagreements” about the “knowledge domain” of technical communication (Savage, p. 21), technical communication has not always functioned “interdisciplinarily”.

...

Did you get my phone message? Asked Sarah L. urgently.
No.

Did you see?, she said, pointing to the computer screen.
Yeah. So?

Hasn't graduate school taught you anything about close reading, she stammered and began to read aloud with the thud of her hand punctuating every word.

doom

Date: Tue 17 Oct 12:28:19 EDT 2006
From: "dissertation advisor" ab0128@wayne.edu Add To Address Book | This is Spam
Subject: QE preface and list
To: HILARY WARD ag9521@wayne.edu
Cc: "other advisor" ae8683@wayne.edu

Hi Hilary: Can we expect to find your revised preface and list in our
mailboxes this Friday? I'm feeling the need for some stimulating
reading over the weekend.

...

use of foreshadowing

"Hwaet: So the new TAs took one look at me and wrote me off: What's she doing here? And no one bothers me for sage advice in the office.

So new girl 1 says / oh no, I lost my key.

New girl 2 replies / they probably have a spare one in the main office that you can use for today.

Oh good, says new girl 1 / who would I see about that.

I don't know says new girl 2 / but I think her name is like Margaret M--

But what do I know, you know, so I didn't say nothing."