Whew. Semester is over. About the same as usual, with the same feelings at the end of each. Reaches a crescendo just at the end with the Exit Exam, frantic students looking for last-miute help, and my seminars--the same two-hour speech 5 times in one week. Boy, do I get tired of talking about paragraph and essay format! Walking away from the ( Read more... )

How sad about what hapened at Tech.  Having heard that the shooter was from this area, I am now waiting for a shoe to drop that he had attended NoVa.  Sure hope not ( Read more... )

Sigh, well, summer is actually starting to wind down. Has been nice. Went to Texas, high school reunion, saw my cousins, my second cousin who was about to get out of jail, visited Corpus Christi. Would I want to live in Texas again? Hmm, hard to say ( Read more... )

Damn, it's hot. And damn it's humid. Had to take the damn dog for a damn walk. Cleaning the damn house. Eating damn food. Damn, it's hot. And damn it's humid. And I have a damn headache from the damn beer that damn Benn forced me to drink after he forced me to buy a damn clay pipe and smoke damn Dutch damn tobacco ( Read more... )

Damn, since Bennington has laid a guilt trip on me, I feel obligated to keep cranking out entries. Ain't guilt a marvelous motivator? That and its opposite twin, vanity, probably drive 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of human behavior. What would we do without them? We would probably be reduced to the level of plants, driven solely by ( Read more... )

OK, OK, so it's been a while. I forgot my password. I forgot my username. I forgot my real name. Minor details ( Read more... )

Oops, I guess I let my journal slip a bit there. Funny how doing nothing can take so much time. Well, now I'm busy. Getting ready for a short vacation. But, how does one take a vacation from a permanent vacation? Well, I guess it's more a change of scene. I'll undoubtedly be busier on vacation than I normally am at home. It's a tough life ( Read more... )

Whew. I am in a slow mood. Stayed up very late last night cleaning and rearranging the house so tired today. Then the guy who was supposed to come by to do some fixing up, carpentry, etc., didn't show, so I just kind of sat around all day waiting. Should have focused on studying for my final tomorrow but was just mentally out of it. Did study ( Read more... )

So, what happened today? Like a magnet, school keeps pulling me back. I went by and got the signatures on my last three timesheets, which I finally submitted. Paperwork. What a bother. It's a good thing I don't depend on the money I get from tutoring or I would be a poor student indeed, in more than one meaning of the word ( Read more... )

Is it proper to add to one's own journal? Or must I await others? Is it my journal if I don't say anything? I don't know; ask the tree that falls unheard in the forest ( Read more... )