My pirate name is:

Dirty Jack Cash


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Man...this stuff is amazing, and amazingly difficult to grasp...

I'm working harder than I have in a LONG time.

- El Ruiz

Our professor spent the first 30 minutes of class today bitching us out: "I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I am in these papers you turned in ( Read more... )

Well, kids (and fellow adults, including those who may be spying on what us teachers do on these evil blog site-thingy's), here it is: my first paper of my Graduate Education. The subject was this: we were supposed to analyze an essay according to an essay by Poe called, "The Philosophy of Compsition," where he details his 'unity of effect.' I ( Read more... )

New beginnings are always interesting; we wake up in the morning and are excited with the idea that we have a clean slate; we have another chance; we can have a new start. Plus, the whole feeling of newness is great: new car smell; a new pair of shoes; the hope that we will make the most of an opportunity ( Read more... )

I know this may sound way shallow, but I LOVE my new iPod and MacBook...now my life is complete.

- El Ruiz

Shawn, my response was too short. I hope you don't mind me posting it? Here it is ( Read more... )

THANK YOU to Joe and Brittny!

Even though two of the nicest people around invited me to dinner, I regret to say that I can't go. I would have loved to have spent this evening with you all, but time's a wastin, and I've got Olson and Spear tagging along. Otherwise, I'd be there...totally. It meant SO much to find notes on my desk asking me to dinner ( Read more... )

Consider the following, by William Wordsworth. Read it carefully ( Read more... )

READ THIS!!

Holy Sonnet 14, by John Donne

Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me ( Read more... )