Ch-ch-changin

apple products make my life easier. and in order for things to be as easy as possible i use apple products. apple products, as you may know, do not like google products. like blogger. so i am moving this here blog to tumblr. thataway i can use my iphone for absolutely all aspects of my life.

G O T H E R E

acaseoftheworks.tumblr.com

isn't that easy?

and it's pretty.

Kathy Bates: Crazier Than Me?

Sometimes its good to take breaks from work and watch things. Episodes and such. Every now and then I take it upon myself to watch a full film instead of doing work. This really gets my creative juices flowing and such. Well, it's less than creative juices and more like utter panic by the time the movie is done. But then I really work like mad! This cycle does not work, however, when you watch Fried Green Tomatoes.

6 O'Clock Shadowboredom

6 pm is basically the worst time of the day. The sun is either setting or, on the first day of "snow" in Chicago, it's already pitch-black out. 6pm is ESPECIALLY hard when you're trying to write a teaching philosophy. Yes, a philosophy about teaching when you have never taught. You write a philosophy about teaching hypothetical students in a hypothetical school in hypothetical situations wherein your students are hypothetically more engaged, curious and interesting than the Northface-wearing, Ugg-boots-stomping, gum-smacking, straightened-haired-sorority-girls-fake-smiling, cocked-baseball-hat-sweatpants-sagging-atheletes you ACTUALLY come in contact with on campus.

Thanksgiving You Heartburn

I had an excellent thanksgiving in Memphis, TN. There was turkey AND ham. I forgot my real camera so, in honor of the inferiority of the iPhone camera, I here now dedicate this post to the dark side of Thanksgiving. The dark meat, if you will, of our gathering.

I watched a lot of football (go Auburn!) and I went on a four mile walk that made my legs want to fall off. Jenny totes blew it on the cheddar sausage balls. They didn't make the table. I really blew it with green bean casserole. Don't mistake the empty pan for satisfaction: substituting cream of chicken for cream of mushroom is the opposite of delicious. It shouldn't have made the table.

Gourds can get really ugly. I also learned that the innards of pomegranates are slightly disgusting looking. Specifically that skin-thing that holds it all together. All in all, it was beautiful. Without any further ado:

Leaving Illinois. Wildlife: they're just like us.

I started the holiday off right, paying homage to our fallen First Nation brethren.

F O T O D U M P Z

Dave had cataracts surgery which, interestingly, means both a medical condition and a large waterfall. So, we made it rain, you could say, for two days in his honor. Shane was there. Alexis had a cat pin that looked crazy. Grace had a lazy eye. Dave and I sang Gypsy because that's what you're supposed to do. The bartender called me sir and a sign told us what we should REALLY do.

And basically it all ended in a fog/laser dream.

Just Another Manic Monday NOT

I haven't written anything lately because everything is BORING. Like class today. It's supposed to go from 2-5, because as graduate students, as adults and as "intellectuals" we should be able to sustain conversation for that long. YEARITE. We were outta that joint at 3:30 - and we STRUGGLED to get there. And by "we" I mean the three of us in the class of 10 who regularly speak. Poor teacher. Such a quiet man.

In other news, Pepsodent is not a good toothpaste. That's what you get when Grace steals toothpaste from her parents.

Weekenders

She's here. We have a busy schedule of CHILLING TO THE MAXXX.