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[Aug. 10th, 2009|04:39 am] |
And Awake.
The End. |
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| a moving |
[May. 31st, 2009|08:44 pm] |
Its my last night at my current residence.
Final pieces moving tomorrow and poof - in my new place.
A condo im sharing with to guys from craigslist... should be interesting
At least it is closer to campus and mildly cheaper |
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| Semester done |
[May. 11th, 2009|09:18 pm] |
Well, its over, finally.
Teaching and taking 4 grad classes = end of semester cluster f%$ck (cant remember how john stewart put its!)
Anyways, now what they hell do I do with myself?
I move at the end of the month, so there is that. Its a condo-share, we shall see. Rent is better, closer to campus at least.
Maybe I will get a bike.
Its hot in my room. Wish we could turn the AC on in here, but bills, bills I suppose
Anywho, hope ya'll is well, and yes, I said ya'll! |
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| A teaching I do go |
[Feb. 13th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
Had the first quiz in my class today. Went smoothly enough, but then my initial reaction to the scores were wtf?
But then, in the end, the avg. grade was a 75. Healhily in the normal curve, which is just what I am shooting for.
Also, a kid in the class raised his hand after the quiz and asked if he could leave and go study for another test. A double WTF to you kid! |
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| Apropos |
[Nov. 7th, 2008|12:16 am] |
This is just one of the million reasons why I love Charlie Rose:
Blandeur by Kay Ryan
If it please God, let less happen. Even out Earth's rondure, flatten Eiger, blanden the Grand Canyon. Make valleys slightly higher, widen fissures to arable land, remand your terrible glaciers and silence their calving, halving or doubling all geographical features toward the mean. Unlean against our hearts. Withdraw your grandeur from these parts.
Ryan is the current poet laureate of the US
Kay Ryan, “Blandeur” from Say Uncle. Copyright © 2000 by Kay Ryan. Reprinted with the permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
found online at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172276
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| My friends, my fellow Americans |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|08:15 pm] |
Proud, once again, to be an American!!
Even though KY went first and to McCain, at least they have McConnell a run for his money.
IT was a great night, Had a frend over, drank a couple of beers, and before we knew it, BAM - it was called.
I was surprise but nonetheless happy it didnt drag along <flashes of Florida>
I think its going to be change for REAL not just because.
Yahooooooo! |
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| this is crazy this is crazy |
[Oct. 31st, 2008|06:49 pm] |
so i agreed to teach an intro geog class today...
this is crazy
and if they play Constantine one more time on AMC i really will scream
oh, and happy Halloween! |
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| it be getting down to the wire |
[Oct. 18th, 2008|05:06 pm] |
Watched most of all of the debates and Ive got to say that I dont know how anyone in their right mind could vote for McCain.
I was and am still not completely sold on Obama, having been for Hillary, but still, if the winds of change blew any harder, it would be an F5 tornado. How could McCain change anything?
Also, if I hear one more story or quote from Palin about ACORN and voter fraud, ill scream!
Its NOT VOTER FRAUD UNTIL SOMEONE ACTUALLY TRIES TO VOTE!
Its REGISTRATION FRAUD when they fill out the form incorrectly - and why would someone do that?
Well, because the the people they paid to do it wanted to get it done and get paid like anyone else, regardless of the work they did.
No Mickey Mouse will be showing up to vote in Ohio, and if they do, they better have three government issued forms of ID.
Instead, the Republican-led charges have in themselves created this cloud of fraud that they then can take advantage of - see the efforts, once again like in 2000 and 2004 of purging voting registers of perfectly legal voters because they have the same name as a criminal or some other nonsense.
If should be a federal crime that you dont have to notify a voter if they are barred from voting before they actually show up to vote - that way they can straighten it out.
The Republican are out to steal the election again and I hope they dont succeed this time.
I saw on CNN that they are encouraging people to video or tape their expereince on election day - good idea.
What is cool is my school gives us Election Day off - what a novelty! It should be a federal holiday! |
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| monsieur Foucault |
[Sep. 25th, 2008|08:21 pm] |
Am reading Foucault's 'Discipline and Punishment' for class and its good but long.
My roomie has people over to watch Greys Anatomy - yay.
In other news, I have become somewhat of a Wii fiend.
Specifically Tennis - am a Pro already. Tis quite fun. |
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| Just a bit off.... |
[Jul. 26th, 2008|11:55 pm] |
The music from my last post was, in fact, Stevie Nicks on Soundstage!
Whoops. |
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| Hello hello again, shaboom, shaboom |
[Jul. 26th, 2008|11:42 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Fleetwood Mac on Austin City Limits | ] |
Had some people over for a 'Im moving so I guess I should have people over' thing. Only a few were in town, but it was nice nonetheless. And I have food until I move, which is in a week. Crazy, crazy. Things are winding down, up, and every way.
Next week will be a blur, Im sure, and my Rents got rid of there internet, so it is quite possible that I wont post again until I have relocated to:
Lexington, KY
Until then, mes cheres, stay cool. |
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| as per Erin D |
[Jun. 28th, 2008|11:30 pm] |
Booky Looky
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Another of my top ten)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt FAVORITE BOOK !!!
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (unabridged and its awesome)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
26 - here's to abve average!
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| Je suppose |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|10:23 pm] |
Things with U KY havent seemed very permanent. It took forever for the grad director to get back to me, but he did say I would qualify for a scholarship where at least I would only have to pay in-state tuition next year (which saves me like 10 grand!) and since then I guess Ive been slowly starting to believe that I am actully going to move there.
Am I?
I suppose I am.
Wow, that snuck up on me.
Yeah, it kind of did.
So... this means Im moving from Albany on the First of August.
Home at the rents for a week, then spending a week in Maryland, at the ocean.
Then moving.
15 hours south.
INTO THE SOUTH!
Crazt crazy.
I guess thats me :)
ps - so, thats like No TIME!
So much to do, but actually not really. Funny how that is isnt it?
PPSS - My friend turned me onto a new online game she was in, called Tribal Wars - dont start playing, its addicting as all get out.
Hey, I just though of something - when I move down to KY, my saying 'y'all' will actually be appropriate! Score one for KY.
I need to make a list like Rory. |
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| A Boston I did go |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|01:00 pm] |
I went to the annual AAG geography in Boston Monday to present a paper and got back last night. It was over all a great experience as I havent ever been to the national conference. Boston was cool (we stayed in Cambridge near MIT), got a good deal on our hotel (thanks to priceline and a BIG FU to the 'discounted' rooms at the conference hotels), got to present the first day, which meant I had wed. and thurs. free for my friends. Got to see my old advisor, Jean, from HC (she now works at a small school in NC, which is remarkably like HC) and she was excited to see me and said she was proud of me and to keep up the good work (awww!). It was funny because she presented a paper on Blackwater and Im like, 'whoa - I wrote my thesis on Blackwater!' Quite the coincidence. Still waiting to hear from one school about PhD, so fingers and everything are crossed...
So that was that. Thankfully its Friday and nice out - Im tired! |
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| Oh really? |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|11:15 am] |
So, as per Melley's post, LJ is not going to be free anymore?
Or at least have a free account option?
Sorry folks - if I have to pay, Im outty.
This seems entirely dumb because of all the other free services out there.
Say it aint so? |
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| GoP on the wane |
[Feb. 9th, 2008|05:33 pm] |
2008 may be the year of the Rat, but as I listen to the outdated, old, and just plain idiotic Newt Gingrinch on c-span, I realize that 2008 will alsp be the year of the Republican, and more importantly, the 'Conservative' element of the party, Wane. Just as Ann Coulter, who c-span also played last night, stuttered through and reiterated the same tired, old conservative hoopla about taxes and abortion and all that, I realized that these so-called 'voices of the right' have no clue what they are talking about! If I have to hear one more intonation of the revered Ronald Regan, the worst president until Bushie, I will puke. They had there chance, way too many chanes actually, and they fucked it up. I had a rather intense discussion with a friend of mine suring the Super Bowl about how Bush had 6 years of full congressional blank-check authority and they did... nothing! They passed what? Medicare part B - which will cost nearly double what it said it would initially? But of course, there is the War on Terror - he has protected us because there wasnt another attack! This was my second point in my discussion with my friend, who said she would vote, if she could have, for Huckabee (no, I didnt laugh). She is worried, scard about terror. Its a top reason for Republicans to vote for republicans - they will protect us. I said that I didnt feel scared about terror, but instead, about the domestic problems that have been negelected for so long. Thats what scares me - almost as much as a Baptist minister for prez! No matter who is president, they will have the military industrial complex at there disposal, meaning that the secuirty process is ongoing. Its not going to change. No person would want more attacks, so why would a Democrat be softer on terror? 9/11 happened on Bushie's watch? No one could have guessed it would happen - O.K. There were signs. So if no one could have guessed it would happen, then what does it matter who is in the WH? We are never going to stop all of the attacks that can happen in a free and open society. Unless we want to live in a police-state, with closed borders, rules by xenophobia, another attack is bound to happen until we change our foriegn policy and economic goals that rape developing countries and then tell them its there fault.
Ok, i need a break from this - and Newt Gingrich. More later... |
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