Ah, the magic that is finals week. Shellshocked students shambling from classroom to classroom, barely able to manage a sweatsuit and bedhead ensemble, running around campus brandishing flash drives like Olympians. How I envy them.
Me, I’m tweaking my mental machinery, getting ready to switch gears once the semester ends. I’ll be teaching the second half [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Delight in Disorder
Posted in fodder for Freudians, lapses of lame on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Post-lapsarian
Posted in evil twins, puppetry on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(NB: It seems a lot of folks arrive at this post whilst searching for the terms “lapsarian” or “post-lapsarian.” If you’re hunting for something like a working definition, I eventually mounted one over here.)
Were you to see me on the street today, you would probably put your spare change in my hat. Heck, you might [...]
Les Mots and les Choses
Posted in astonishing rhetoric!, frothing, vague allusions on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an effort to make my life a little less noodlesome, I broke some bad internet habits a couple months back. I weaned myself off some message boards, killed an e-mail address or three, unsubscribed from some listservs, and otherwise tried to decrease my virtual footprint. Nowadays, when I fill in my odd hours, I [...]
Life to the Lees
Posted in evil twins, vague allusions on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I attempted to blog yesterday, but at the tail end of grading 70 essays my prose was somewhat less than scintillating. This is the only arena in which I try not to take my writing ultra-seriously, but I do aspire to something akin to zesty coherence.
Grading aside, it was something of an odd weekend. On Friday [...]
True to Form
Posted in evil twins on April 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last night I was the victim of an instant earworm (which, I must say, is one of the most bitchin’ of German loanwords). I was checking the top 30 list of our university radio station, seeing what the youth of America is into these days, when I spotted a new release from a band I [...]
The More Beautiful Question
Posted in astonishing rhetoric!, navel-gazery, vague allusions on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the radio this morning a woman was lamenting her romantic fortunes. First she wed the inattentive go-getter, the one whose wealth and ambition could not fill the hole in her heart. Next she wed the charming philanderer, the one whose philandering had already philanded him in divorce court twice (to her knowledge) before they tied the [...]
Daze of the Dead
Posted in lapses of lame, navel-gazery, vague allusions on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I shall laze. Were I more ambitious, I would attempt to lase, which would turn this post into an homage to Real Genius. Alas, I lack the gumption.
Wednesday the end of the semester begins in good earnest: I will collect about 75 essays, conference with my intermediate composition students, and start assembling final exams. Anything [...]
Half Full
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I almost made it.
Trekked to the gym four times this week and logged a total of 3:40 on the elliptical runner. Woulda batted 5 for 5…if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids. Well, technically those kids are members of the Excellence in Teaching committee, whose snarled schedules oblige us to schedule meetings at 8:30, [...]
Windows 2008
Posted in vagaries of verse on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, if only I really were an operating system. That would explain all the glitches, and I could just eat cookies and wait for a patch to set things right.
The past two weeks have been devoted to seizures of introspection and rationalization, mostly because I haven’t been writing all that much. I actually have decent reasons [...]
