Lots of awesome today. I love the SGA Fall and Spring Festivals. Our game was well received - Monkees did an amazing job with the faces. We had several people tell us it was fun and clever! The table looked really cute. My volunteers were awesome and so helpful! But there weren't as many students out and about, so the turn out could have been ( Read more... )

A Panhandle Poetry Society friend and coworker has a summer reading challenge on her blog, so I am finally reading again. Fits and starts. I don't understand how I can put off doing things I love and enjoy until I have some outside motivation. Some inner failing ( Read more... )

Poetry Group was a success! I suppose I ought to post the poem - but I don't know if I want to post the original or wait until I decide which suggestions I want to incorporate.

I've been writing silly little poems for Sarah's knitting. :)

HippoTied dye, flower power, long hair, peace not fuss ( Read more... )

Catchy opening
with a twist.
All the while the subtext
Deep
Compelling
Thoughtful.
But the ending needs work.

Boy do I have a lot of LJ to catch up on - both the reading and the writing ( Read more... )

Eleventh grade - funnily enough I just wrote a poem about my 11th grade year and how challenging it was. Today I ended up teaching a poetry class to a group of 11th graders and it was quite challenging. I don’t think I could be a high school teacher. I will stick to elementary school or college classes from now on! But I am proud that I survived ( Read more... )

I am joining a poetry writing group at work and while people can bring in anything they are working on the leader also sent out suggestions kind of like story starters for anyone needing a boost. One of the suggestions for this week was early science class memories. I think she meant more elementary school level with the wonder and joy of discovery ( Read more... )

There is a preponderance of dead dragonflies in the breezeway between the Enrollment Services buildings. It’s quite disturbing. I tried to take a picture, but the area is pretty dirty from all the feet that trek through here daily, so it’s hard to see the gruesome details from my shots. Trust me, it’s really icky. One day my coworker and I counted ( Read more... )

I finished Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves by Clifford A. Pickover. It is probably one of the weirdest books I've ever read. I liked parts of it - anything dealing with wordplay, vocabulary, and Proust. ( But there are large chunks of the book I'm not sure about. )

Monday two of our IT crew worked very hard to set up my computer and our phone guy had to actually get on the floor and left my desk with his back so that I could pull the wires out from underneath the furniture. He said the movers always seem to put things on the wires. The ladies setting up my computer/printer equally struggled with the issues ( Read more... )