-My students and I need to have a conversation about what "5-7 pages" means. Over half of my class seems to think that it means 4.5 pages. They are mistaken ( Read more... )

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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.-Audre Lorde ( Read more... )

I love my students. I didn't think that I would, but there is something about them. My more experienced collegues keep telling me that it will all change once I have to grade their first essay. Maybe it will. Right now, though, they just seem so on top of things. I love that they like each other and that they are willing to engage in discussion. I ( Read more... )

Yay! I finally got to see the trailer for Doubt. I love Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman so much!

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I also really like the trailer for Milk.

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The fall/winter movie season makes me so happy!

A real post to come soon!

Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto
-Terence

Nothing human disgusts me...unless its unkind, violent.
-Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams's Night at the Blue Iguana.It is curious that our culture is so obsessed with excess in the world outside of ourselves. Big food, big cars, big ( Read more... )

Today was a difficult day. I attended my great aunt Tick's (Cecilia Agnes's) funeral. I had lived with Tick for several months when I was going to school at NIC. She was always sort of the wild one out of my grandfather's brothers and sisters. She had a loud laugh, loved to drink and go out, and after her husband died, she had a male companion that ( Read more... )

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person ( Read more... )

I haven't talked too much about the English 101 class that I am teaching this fall. Because the summer has been so awful, I have been sort of putting it out of my mind. Now that it is just around the corner, though, I probably should be dedicating more thought to it. Dr. Qualley, the Director of Composition, sent out an insanely long e-mail ( ( Read more... )

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee ( Read more... )