The next few days will be devoted to the greasing of elbows, the grinding of noses, and the proving of pudding. I might need to pick up some Formula 409 and paper towels on the way into work.
Though I’m trying hard to shrug off the yoke of Promethean preoccupation, keeping my mind in the near term [...]
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The Future, Tense
Posted in amor fati!, navel-gazery on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Day After
Posted in fear the kraken!, navel-gazery, vague allusions on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why yes, I do choose my post titles so students Googling for free term papers wind up reading my blog instead. Don’t you? Sorry to all the youth of America looking for insight into Robert Herrick over the past few days. You’ll find no insight here. If you look carefully, however, you’ll find veiled allusions to [...]
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 [...]
Waiting, Wading
Posted in navel-gazery on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Right around the end of March every spring semester, time becomes inordinately cruel. Students who can normally muster 75 minutes of steady attention start slyly glancing at the clock; obligations left pending for much of the winter season begin to gather on the horizon like stormclouds. I’m generally a fine planner and well ahead of the game, but [...]
Process and Progress
Posted in navel-gazery, vague allusions, tagged fodder for Freudians, on writing on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re on the other side of Spring Break here at CMU, and I think the return has jarred quite a few folks into a fugue state. It’s difficult to recover the momentum built up over eight weeks of class, harder still when classes wrap up for good in the short stretch from now to April’s end. Throw in [...]
