i'm against bush's social security scheme too, but not for the same reasons a lot of other people are ( Read more... )

"Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions." that was part of a job description i was looking at today. it sounds like the job description for life.

there are several aspiring novelists who carry on their lives' work at our library's computer lab. today i glanced at the monitor while one was in the bathroom and saw:
Chapter II

The High-Speed Chase
and i was surprised by my emotional reaction! at first i laughed, and then i felt a bit of elitist pity, and then i felt a little mad, and then i ( Read more... )

this needs no introduction and no explanation. by god, i wish it did.

HISTORY, NOT SATIRE: U.S. encouraged by Vietnam vote ( Read more... )

today the hot breeze and yo la tengo made me long, i mean really pine, if i may use that word, for the Summer of Death. remember that?

i was going to email this to carol, but it's funny enough for everyone. excerpted from an opinion column in the skyliner, the newspaper of north greenville college:

"For instance, in the United States we have forgotten the meaning of true freedom and let our inhibitions run wild. Freedom and liberty can only guarantee justice through self-control ( Read more... )

well, i just discovered that the phone number for my number one reference is wrong on my resume. dr. brown, the fancy assistant dean of the liberal arts college, he my favorite teacher for two years, i his top student, we were a perfect team! yet i screwed it up! is it worse to give what seems a fake reference number, or to call all the places ( Read more... )

i was going to write about my new pal baudrillard but my current job search is giving me a headache and keeping my heart rate up, so i've got to expel a little of this nervous energy. (did you know there's no verb for "catharsis?")
we're probably going to move to conway for financial reasons. we make just enough now to pay all our bills, but ( Read more... )

"No profession is as sterile as that of literature. Yet pretense is so valuable in the world that with its aid even literature becomes edifying. Pretense is the soul, so to speak, of the social life and is an art without which no other art or faculty, considered according to its effects on the human mind, can be perfect. Consider the fortunes of ( Read more... )

This year is going to be my year of reading. I plan to begin master's study next spring (probably at College of Charleston but maybe anywhere) and then doctoral work at some other undisclosed, undecided location as soon as possible after that.
So, this may be my last year of menial labor and minimal responsibility for quite a while! I attempted ( Read more... )