I've taken to drawing cartoons in Paint when I'm bored or frustrated at work. This is the first offering. More to come soon.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Cartoon 1
I've taken to drawing cartoons in Paint when I'm bored or frustrated at work. This is the first offering. More to come soon.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Worthless students and political incorrectness...
Politically Incorrect
Edited for incriminating content.
On a brighter note, a student in one of my labs made me smile today. They're required to keep a journal of the goings-on in our writing group and this particular student has taken the idea and run wild with it. I dread the assignment sometimes because some of them make me want to stab my eyeballs out with Pamela Anderson's fake nails to read the things. It's a shame so many trees should die at the hands of maudlin musings over writing (I don't kill trees with my maudlin musings, thankyouverymuch).
This particular student is in the art department, so we have a good time talking art and bringing that creative component into the writing group. He's discovered that writing is an art form and enjoys getting creative with his journal entries. He's very honest and diary'ish about the whole thing, which alternately cracks me up and makes me think. I'm really proud of him.
That began as a really inspired thought and fell flat at the end. Fuck it. I've gotta go to bed. Another presentation to do tomorrow.
On TV: Everybody Loves Raymond
Music: Billy Currington....That Changes Everything (he was in Playgirl!)
Reading: The Triumph of Narrative, Robert Fulford
In my head: Gah-gah'ness
Edited for incriminating content.
On a brighter note, a student in one of my labs made me smile today. They're required to keep a journal of the goings-on in our writing group and this particular student has taken the idea and run wild with it. I dread the assignment sometimes because some of them make me want to stab my eyeballs out with Pamela Anderson's fake nails to read the things. It's a shame so many trees should die at the hands of maudlin musings over writing (I don't kill trees with my maudlin musings, thankyouverymuch).
This particular student is in the art department, so we have a good time talking art and bringing that creative component into the writing group. He's discovered that writing is an art form and enjoys getting creative with his journal entries. He's very honest and diary'ish about the whole thing, which alternately cracks me up and makes me think. I'm really proud of him.
That began as a really inspired thought and fell flat at the end. Fuck it. I've gotta go to bed. Another presentation to do tomorrow.
On TV: Everybody Loves Raymond
Music: Billy Currington....That Changes Everything (he was in Playgirl!)
Reading: The Triumph of Narrative, Robert Fulford
In my head: Gah-gah'ness
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Whatever
The Usual Sunday Whatever
I'm godsmacked, people! Godsmacked I tell you. As in, God is smacking my ass with projects until it's red and pained. I've gotten a lot done today, which is the only reason I can sit here relatively guilt-free and type this shit to you all. I pretty much turned my bedroom upside down in a nesting/cleaning frenzy. I could no longer endure studying in squalor, so I cleaned out the top shelf of my bookcase to make room for the 30'ish library books I have checked out right now as well as some folders full of handouts (I hate handouts) from class. I proceeded to organize everything in my school bag, dust, trash a garbage bag worth of miscellaneous papers, and I vacuumed. It's nice and Febreezy-smellin' in here now.
Once the cleaning frenzy ceased, I was able to finish reading Descendants of Darkness for Tuesday night's class, do my online posting early, and dig into Bridget Jones's Diary (need a refresher before I write the paper).
Now I sit here slothful as ever post-shower with freshly straightened locks listening to Billy Butter Voice Currington. My new favorite CD.
A woman is a mystery
A man just can't understand
Sometimes all it takes to please her
Is a touch of your hand
Other times you gotta take it slow
And hold her all night long
Heaven knows there's so many ways
A man can go wrong
Must be doin' somethin' right
I just heard you sigh
Leaned into my kiss
And closed those deep blue need you eyes
Don't know what I did
To earn a love like this
But baby I must be doin' somethin' right...
It's hot, and it's on repeat.
Plans for the remainder of the evening:
Desperate Housewives
More Bridget Jones
I'm godsmacked, people! Godsmacked I tell you. As in, God is smacking my ass with projects until it's red and pained. I've gotten a lot done today, which is the only reason I can sit here relatively guilt-free and type this shit to you all. I pretty much turned my bedroom upside down in a nesting/cleaning frenzy. I could no longer endure studying in squalor, so I cleaned out the top shelf of my bookcase to make room for the 30'ish library books I have checked out right now as well as some folders full of handouts (I hate handouts) from class. I proceeded to organize everything in my school bag, dust, trash a garbage bag worth of miscellaneous papers, and I vacuumed. It's nice and Febreezy-smellin' in here now.
Once the cleaning frenzy ceased, I was able to finish reading Descendants of Darkness for Tuesday night's class, do my online posting early, and dig into Bridget Jones's Diary (need a refresher before I write the paper).
Now I sit here slothful as ever post-shower with freshly straightened locks listening to Billy Butter Voice Currington. My new favorite CD.
A woman is a mystery
A man just can't understand
Sometimes all it takes to please her
Is a touch of your hand
Other times you gotta take it slow
And hold her all night long
Heaven knows there's so many ways
A man can go wrong
Must be doin' somethin' right
I just heard you sigh
Leaned into my kiss
And closed those deep blue need you eyes
Don't know what I did
To earn a love like this
But baby I must be doin' somethin' right...
It's hot, and it's on repeat.
Plans for the remainder of the evening:
Desperate Housewives
More Bridget Jones
Book Talk
Book Talk
In reality I'm reading about 30 books and a multitude of scholarly (and not so scholarly) articles for my two final papers (20-25 pages each). Some are fun, some are not so much fun, but I figured I'd throw out some titles for the book lovas in the bunch.
Decendants of Darkness is one in a series of Manga graphic novels. While I am a graphic novel fan, I've never read Manga. This one is REALLY odd. Really REALLYodd. I'm hoping it improves at this point, or I'll have to give it a big thumbs-down in Oral Tradition and Modern Fantasy on Tuesday.
I'm not a huge fan of Marina Warner's books based on the two I've read (Six Myths of Our Time and No Go the Bogeyman), but I thought I'd give From Beast to Blonde a try. So far OK.
The Witch Must Die (Sheldon Cashdan) is so cuuute! And I'm talking about the cover. I haven't actually jumped into this one yet, but I will probably start rifling through it today. It sounds like a great book, so I'll report more on that one later.
Another one I'm heavily into is The Triumph of Narrative:Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (Robert Fulford). This one goes along with my chick lit paper for Research Methods and is interesting so far. The first chapter deals with the idea of gossip and narrative, which I find intriguing in light of the general style of the chick lit novel and how that might relate back to the novel of manners or the validity of the chick lit genre in general. More to come on that.
God, I need to start drafting these papers.
In reality I'm reading about 30 books and a multitude of scholarly (and not so scholarly) articles for my two final papers (20-25 pages each). Some are fun, some are not so much fun, but I figured I'd throw out some titles for the book lovas in the bunch.
Decendants of Darkness is one in a series of Manga graphic novels. While I am a graphic novel fan, I've never read Manga. This one is REALLY odd. Really REALLYodd. I'm hoping it improves at this point, or I'll have to give it a big thumbs-down in Oral Tradition and Modern Fantasy on Tuesday.
I'm not a huge fan of Marina Warner's books based on the two I've read (Six Myths of Our Time and No Go the Bogeyman), but I thought I'd give From Beast to Blonde a try. So far OK.
The Witch Must Die (Sheldon Cashdan) is so cuuute! And I'm talking about the cover. I haven't actually jumped into this one yet, but I will probably start rifling through it today. It sounds like a great book, so I'll report more on that one later.
Another one I'm heavily into is The Triumph of Narrative:Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (Robert Fulford). This one goes along with my chick lit paper for Research Methods and is interesting so far. The first chapter deals with the idea of gossip and narrative, which I find intriguing in light of the general style of the chick lit novel and how that might relate back to the novel of manners or the validity of the chick lit genre in general. More to come on that.
God, I need to start drafting these papers.
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