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Where I'm At Right Now
It's probably obvious from the last couple posts, or maybe not. We'll see.
This summer, I move to Houston for teacher training, and from there I move somewhere in the deep south. Imagine a triangle with Memphis, Little Rock, and Jackson: I'll be somewhere inside the triangle. Swamp country. Come on down and visit! I'll fix you some cornbread, ( Read more... ) -
Er, scratch that...
News has just rolled in. TFA just invited me to teach middle-school Spanish in central Mississippi.
Hooooly shit.
Also, sorry I've been so self centered: we should all be celebrating Obama day.
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Waitlisted Again
I don't want to say anything negative about the TFA program, but I really was expecting a final answer (in either direction) today. -
Life Plans
Here's what I'm doing next year, in order of preference ( Read more... ) -
Yee-Haw
This has been the semester of all-night writing. Here we go again.
James Joyce is impossible to write about. -
Fuck Modernism and Understatement
Everything means something. People will inevitably connect to one another because humans are all linked to a big pipe full of emotions.
Post-modernism might not be the answer, because nobody really knows what it is.
Returning to romanticism probably isn't the answer, because wigs look silly and there is no such thing as an ideal form. A form is no ( Read more... ) -
For fans of Allen Ginsberg
Next year, Paul Rudd and other luminaries will release a movie dramatizing the "Howl" obscenity trials. Everybody had better plan to watch this with me and drink some wine in lieu of a graduation party ( Read more... ) -
Got a piece of time
Today was pretty sweet. I woke up at 7:45, ate a hearty meal, and took my Japanese comprehensive senior exam. The oral portion of the exam was fun. It basically consisted of hanging out with my Japanese professor and talking about the different aspects of camping and college life. He told me that my grammar is strong, but that there are tens of ( Read more... ) -
Back on Track (Momentarily)
I've been wishing that my Naperville friends could come to Kenyon recently. This place is a strange circus ( Read more... ) -
OH man.
Things are going way fast. Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of my shit. Much of the time, I don't.
Anyway, much love, and keep doing what you are doing. I am completely sure that it is the right thing to do. The Dao will lead you to where you're supposed to be.
Mike