Sleepiness Cannot Win
The big question of my life today was this: can I stay awake all the way through choir? It seemed unlikely. I got up at 5:30 and met my dad for breakfast at 6:30. I then went to a business […]
Kitchen Nightmares
I’ve had a week of classes now. My classes seem particularly excellent this term, and my summer class did as well. There are three possibilities: We are using happiness as our group topic rather than global warming, and this just […]
Rough Week
I’ve had a rough week. Not a bad week, but it sort of went on for a long time and had lots of stuff in it. My husband’s 4:22 alarm clock is probably the main thing, frankly. I always end […]
Faculty Meeting
I went and sat through the Division meeting at the college. “Sat through” is really the only term for it. The whole division of fine arts and communication was there, and we had a lot of speakers. A dozen, probably. Each […]
Global Warming
Yesterday was a work day. I’ve nearly finished one of the two online classes I have to do (leaving aside the one I was supposed to do for KSURF and haven’t yet completed. FreshPlans continues to have affiliate sales every […]
The Speech
We’re beginning our research papers in my writing classes. Here you see the sayings I have on my office wall: “Never try to teach a pig to sing! It wastes your time and annoys the pig.” “If we knew what […]
Tables and Columns
I’m reading Joan Hess’s Muletrain to Maggody, which is set in a fictional hamlet near the real town where Hess and I both live. I like Hess’s books, but Suwanda was saying yesterday that they were offensive. They do rather […]
Victorious Accomplishments
One Christmas, an aunt and uncle sent my family a gift, saying that they didn’t intend to start a regular gift exchange with us and we shouldn’t feel we needed to reciprocate, but we’d had so many exciting things going […]
Avoiding Christmas Songs
Rampaige is suffering from a surfeit of “The Little Drummer Boy” because she works in a place that mandates the continual playing of a top 40 Christmas music station. She has decided, based on this daily trial, to avoid Christmas […]
Wednesday November 19, 2008
The sky looked pretty great at school. We have only two more weeks of classes. The rough draft of the big research paper is due on Tuesday and the final draft on the following Tuesday, and there are just four […]