A friend of mine from college (found her again via Facebook) recently bought a house with her man in Vermont. Amy is living a rural life, feeding the cats, listening to the wind, recovering when she needs to from the bruises of being a New Yorker.
In London, on Oxford Street, it was push and shove [...]
The admin in the English Department thinks I am too hard on my students, I can tell by the look on her face.
I posted a note on mailbox that it is “Closed for portfolio submissions.” This implies, of course, that I haven’t received all of them, and that some of the students (the ones I [...]
So Colin and I were going to do The Master Cleanse. Which is a great way to lose weight, but not the reason why one should do it. It’s a cleanse, after all, designed for clearing out toxins and getting you healthy.
Day one was yesterday and as mentioned in yesterday’s post “Hungryland”, I spent the [...]
The good news is that I have completed a semester’s worth of teaching.
The bad news is that I must somehow complete a semester’s worth of grading, if I can, in four and half days.
That includes those grades that will, inevitably, be less than a ‘C,’ thus requiring these students I have come to know and [...]
Let’s enjoy today. To bask in the warmth of the light of change. Let’s enjoy the fruits of our hard work and watch CNN until our eyeballs fall out.
Let’s scan the world’s papers to see ourselves, admired through others’ eyes.
Let’s hold hands and sing, and high five, and, especially when the cameras are looking, give [...]
OK, STOP already. Darren Rowse, the true-to-his-title “ProBlogger,” has tweeted, digged and dumped into my reader the same post, under a dozen different titles, over and over again and I can’t take it anymore!
So, to you Bloggers with no audiences, the answer to the repeated and repeated question, “Is Writing Great Content Enough to Build [...]
Not too long ago, I did something stupid on this blog and changed a setting. That setting made people “login” to comment.
The downside of that was that people I WANTED to leave comments got stopped from doing it. The other downside of that was that people I DIDN’T want to leave comments somehow figured out [...]
Maybe I wouldn’t have been so inspired to write this if I hadn’t been rebuffed by UBS, my husband’s workplace, two years in a row now.
UBS, that beloved multinational banking behemoth, which hit Working Mother’s Top 10 again this year for super companies to work for, hosts mammoth holiday parties every year for their employees.
The [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Read a Blog
10. The blogger is funny, but not funny ha-ha… funny hmmmm.
9. You are bored of internet porn… it is so done!
8. Procrastination is nine-tenths of the law.
7. You hate your boss. Your boss wants you to do something other than browse the internet. You fancy yourself defiant.
6. You [...]
For Denny, who ran the marathon yesterday
Not every To Do list has value, even in completion.
Accomplishments fill time. They tire you to your bones, make you sleep better. But they are just done things, sometimes.
Stand in this group if you run in circles to wear yourself out, to alleviate the boredom.
Come over here by the [...]
Existential Question for the Day, Number 523:
Does the American Dream create us, or do we create it?
After leaving the confined space of London and the “cultured” space of Europe, Colin and I are handspringing back into the frontier life of the American Dream. On our To Do list, dutifully being followed and checked off are [...]
I was thinking about why I should work.
Or why, anyone should work.
Why they would want to.
I was thinking about what sort of things drives a person to work. You know. Other than hunger and bills.
As wealthy and free as we are, why do we work?
Offhand, I can think of these sorts of reasons:
1. Keep boredom at [...]
Today is day two of work. Work. Work.
What is that, you say? Work? Why would I do such a foolish thing like that, when I had the cushy life, sitting around, eating bon bons, sleeping in, and “writing” all day?
Well, it’s a weird thing, but productivity, it seems, begets itself. At least in my case.
If [...]
If you are wondering what a little slice of hell is, it’s this: being in the office, as a temp, and having the person you are replacing show up, unannounced.
Then having her say: May I have a hanger please? as she stares at your coat on the rack with disdain.
Then having her say: Well, I [...]
