"A NEW energy drink that crashed parties in the US last week is called Cocaine, and its makers are billing it as "the legal alternative" to the drug ( Read more... )

today was my first day as a substitute teacher. i don't even have to begin to tell you that this is nowhere close to something that i want to be doing for the long-term, but it went surprisingly well. i taught a 4th grade class. The only problem was that after recess and lunch the kids would not settle down and be quiet. about four of the kids made ( Read more... )

how the hell do i end up having to involve feminism with every art review i write? it's fine except that i think my editor expects me to know more about feminism than i actually know. here's her comments on my yet-to-be-published review ( Read more... )

Maybe this is just my personal preference, but I think it's a really bad idea for a DJ to play Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, and then that "Boys of Summer" song (one after the other). I don't care if it's 1:45 and the bar is about to close, you can't play whatever you want. Were these songs ever popular? Am I too picky? "Boys of Summer" is not a song ( Read more... )

this season's project runway is going to be good!

I'm reading Jonathan lethem's the fortress of solitude. criticism of the book aside, i am glad that it has made me think like a narrator. that switch just turned on! for example, i just got home from the gym, and while i was on the elliptical machine (for 35 minutes, frontwards and backwards, because i am a pro) i was thinking,"Corinna took tiny ( Read more... )

In case you're interested, here are two links that show what I've been doing lately (yes, i am on youtube):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaHGyuhwBbs

www.fluentcollab.org/mbg

The second article I wrote for mbg wasn't as good as the first, but it's still readable.

here is the way to find my article:

www.fluentcollaborative.com/mbg

i need to change my job search strategy. it's not going the way it needs to go, or at least the way i feel that it should be moving. needless to say, this is making me depressed ( a little).

my dinner last night consisted of a wendy's frosty and a sparks. what does this mean in the life of corinna? well, it can't be too bad because i went to the gym this morning.