January 2012
How have I not been watching Downton Abbey?
Now I’m going to get nothing done.
Dear Ovaries,
I am just getting over food poisoning, making me want a fast food burger and fries is not nice!
Screw you, I’m having toast.
I'm home working today.
Taking care of Twitter and some school stuff.
I’ve already got the majority of stuff I needed to get done, done.
So I think I’m going to make a pot of tea and watch a movie or two and enjoy a bit of a down day. I have no idea what I’m going to watch but there will be British accents and frippery.
Sometimes I despair.
For the last four years I’ve been working on a project which aims to bridge intercultural divides between Muslims and non-Muslims. (I prefer not to link from this blog, but will send you the link if you ever ask.)
Going into the project I knew the basics of Islam. I knew there were Sunni and Shia. I did not know about the Sufi, although I’d read Sufi poetry for years. I knew about the...
“It’s pretty dispiriting to think that your genitals are basically a vector...”
– Are Blowjobs Giving You Mouth Cancer — The L Magazine
This is one of my favorite sentences I’ve come across reading “news” articles.
Drinking game.
Every time Santorum says “God given rights” you take a shot.
Drunk in five seconds flat.
Separation of church and state! Separation of...
You should not be making political decisions based on your religion!
Ron Paul sounds reasonable in this debate to me. Help!
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Hi, I'm a white guy who knows the governor of...
I go there all the time.
But you’re still not getting statehood.
“Cuba is bringing in Jihadists”
– Rick Santorum (via musafeer)
#effects of shrooms
Juxtaposing Latin America with those dirty Iranian terrorists was going to happen sooner or later. Having one enemy is easier.
(via mohandasgandhi)
Is he real?
If I weren't getting over food poisoning I would...
I think being drunk is the only way to survive these things.
I wish Santorum would go away.
It's been a week.
I’m considering applying for a job locally that’s just opened up.
I just really want to take a bath.
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I just ate a turkey sandwich on a whole wheat...
Because I’m starving and tired of white, no flavor foods.
I felt like that was a pretty safe choice.
That sandwich was the tastiest thing ever. Although, not being able to eat anything that’s not a salty starch for two days would probably make anything taste good.
I just ate two huge bowls of faux congee.
The second had too much chili paste in it. I hope I did not do something stupid.
But … it’s food!
I just started grading.
If being unable to eat food has had me depressed, this is only going to get worse.
Country Shufflin'
Oh My Sweet Carolina — Ryan Adams
Gotta Have You — The Weepies
Ohio — Damien Jurado
Long Ride Home — Patty Griffin
North Dakota — Lyle Lovett
By the Rivers of Babylon — Jorma Kaukonen
My Love Has Gone — Josh Rouse
Doreen — Old 97’s
I’d Run Away — The Jayhawks
Let This Remind You — Stella
Personal Jesus —...
anarchyandscotch replied to your post: Tomorrow I’m talking with my students about interviewing.
MOS Day was always the most popular day when I taught J200.
That’s good to know. I didn’t do it last semester because I was making so much of everything up along as I went. I think we watched some interviews and talked about them.
Tomorrow I'm talking with my students about...
I think, instead of lecturing, I’m going to have them circle the wagons and we’re going to have a conversation. One in which I ask questions of them, and hopefully, model good interview behavior.
Then I’m going to send them out do MOS (man on the street) interviews about our basketball team. So they have to actually interview a stranger and learn how to take good notes for...
On top of everything, I still can't eat food.
As soon as the furnace is fixed I’m heading back home and drinking all the broth.
Glennon Melton: Friendly Fire →
bunnyvictorious:
this made me really happy. if you’re a mama - or a woman who’s worried about raising daughters - this is a must read, i think.
and basically a must-read for everybody else, too.
“So, maybe instead of tearing each other up, we could each admit that we’re a bit torn up about our choices, or lack thereof. And we could offer each other a shoulder or a hand. And then...
Our furnace isn't working.
It’s freaking cold.
A guy is wielding whips on Conan.
It’s sort of amazing.
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City on the hill.
Have any of the politicians that use that line actually read the book that line comes from?
Or John Winthrop’s sermon that used it?
It’s about charity. The light that shines is a light of love and charity and faith in each other.
I hate when politicians trot that line out like it’s something profound; it loses its beauty when it comes out of the mouth of someone who does not...
Business is one of the "noblest of human pursuits"...
Oooh, and calling Obama an “extremist” is a nice touch.
All those socialist Moooslems are extremists.
Truth
spiralingsidewayz:
missjpulp:
botanicazilla:
notwhatihadinmind:
I am nursing a massive crush on someone that borders on masochism.
Me too. Isn’t it just awful?
I too am doing this.
Shit. I thought we were all doing this.
I thought that was the point.
Who's drinking broth and eating ramen for dinner...
This one.
I should know better than to eat food from our dining hall unless it’s soup from the salad bar. Everytime I do eat something I get violently ill.
Eat lunch, thirty minutes later, just as class is about to start, feel nauseated and shivering and altogether not good.
I am usually very careful about what I eat because of the IBS. When I stray it’s never good.
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not...”
– Anne Bradstreet
I’m trying to remember this right now.
More Journalism Advice
journalofajournalist:
Stories are everywhere. One of the worst possible things you can say is “I can’t find anything to write about.” We live in an amazingly fascinating world; the challenge is learning how to notice all those things that make readers and editors love you.
Yes. A student telling me they don’t know what to write is frustrating.
Everybody has a story. As a journalist...
Truth:
If you constantly refer to undergraduates as “stupid” or interns as “idiots” and fail to understand your role is to help them become less stupid and more well-rounded individuals — not to berate them — you should probably do something else with your life.
Sanctimonious graduate students who are only a few years older than the undergraduates they work with are...
Tempting jobs.
There are a lot of tempting jobs out there, with pretty solid salaries, my fingers are itching to apply for.
If I was already ABD I’d consider it.
Every day it’s a tug-of-war between staying in academia and going back into journalism.
“Seventy-five years ago, before Theodor Geisel rocked the culinary world with...”
– How Dr. Seuss Got His Start ‘On Mulberry Street’ — Morning Edition
I love Dr. Seuss, so much.
He, Fred Rogers, Shel Silverstein and so many other authors and thinkers framed how I saw the world.
I’m so grateful I’ve been able to pass them down to my daughter.
Truths before teaching.
I drank a lot of Glenlivet 12 last night and actually feel fine.
Silence of the Lambs is such a great film. And Anthony Hopkins? Good god! That’s a best actor (or supporting?) for you.
I love teaching. Straight up. I love creating assignments. I like the energy when my class is engaged. When it’s not, though, that’s the worst thing ever.
I sometimes despair I’m not...
“Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot...”
– In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims — New York Times
So, this is repugnant. This is what I’ve spent the last 4 years fighting against at my job. This is what I lose sleep over.
I also posted this on FB with this little gem “Instead of spending time discussing a...
I don't teach until 2:30 but agreed to meet...
I don’t like my decision making right now.
Things I should have learned in Germany.
The last drink is never a good idea.
thatchris asked: What are your 5 "must have" albums?
xtremastuff asked: Dostoyevsky v. Tolstoy in a caged match. Who comes out alive?
So, I'm reading an ethnography about film in...
It’s good but the author overwrites and I don’t really want to spend time on this right now.
Instead I’m going to be looking at apartments in Berlin, dreaming of the day my family and I relocate for my dissertation research. (All the appendages that can be crossed are crossed.)
I am willing to ask answer questions about anything, even things I know nothing about.
Lumpy blue cookies.
I have not always had much success in the kitchen. My mother tried to encourage me to take an interest in cooking when I was little, but I’d always rather be outside or reading.
In middle school I had to begin to learn how to cook basic things — scrambled eggs, pasta, hamburgers — because, with both my parents working on the weekends, I was left in charge of my younger...
Long, lingering Monday morning.
I have to say lying in bed with your pretty husband all morning and then having a nice, long lunch with him before going into work is not a terrible way to start off a week.
