Just emailed to me by bdbdbd74:

Like a vergil.
Woo!
Aeneid for the very first time!
Like a ver-er-er-er-gil.
Put your Trojan next to mine!

I have to get to bed soon and I don't have time, unfortunately to read all the wonderful things that people have been doing and for that I'm sad. I feel neglectful.

Last week was hard. Today was hard. And to top it all off, I feel like I'm becoming a part of the machine that this collage by cbertsch critiques. The least interesting part. Which is ( Read more... )

Morrissey has a throat infection and has canceled some of his shows! The horror! He better make it to JAX 7/17 otherwise I'll just, well, I'll just DIE ( Read more... )

This is corny but I am starting to feel what Wordsworth is talking about regarding the consolation prize we get when we age (the "philosophic mind"). Egads. I hoped I would never be here.

I must resist!

More later. For now I'm leaving love notes on my new CPA's voicemail.

EDIT: And what's even funnier is my students read Daisy Miller for ( Read more... )

I teach at 9:00 in a fancy, technology-filled room. I am sitting in it right now, in fact. But about three minutes ago a young-ish guy--younger than me--opened the door and looked at me pointedly: "Are you a faculty member ( Read more... )

Finally, finally, I was able to upload the video I took last night at The Lemonheads concert. It was slow. A big file.

Here it is!

Enjoy.

EDIT: I wish the sound quality was better. My camera couldn't take the speakers blasting straight at it. And of course I had to stand right in front of the speakers. Reverb city.

FURTHER EDIT: Instead of ( Read more... )

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I have just found out that not only will the Indigo Girls be playing at the Florida Theater in Jacksonville Tuesday, January 23rd, but The Lemonheads (and guests) will be appearing at Jack Rabbits in Jacksonville on Tuesday, January 30th.

I'm going to pee my pants.