My situation at work is unpleasant. The website I manage is allegedly to blame for falling retention rates in pre-med and pre-law programs, so the college leadership has brought in outside consultants to explain how I should do my job.

I suppose there might be a relation between the website and retention rates in these two programs but, more ( Read more... )

The literary talent on which I once defined myself, has, one might anticipate from the prolepsistic introduction, languished in the midst of dreary web work. To recover, I have prescribed a regimen of freelance projects where I might summon vigor from creativity while bolstering savings to buy property, build equity, and subsequently escape ( Read more... )

The trend of entries distanced in time is amplified in geographic destinations: Alexandria, Frostburg, San Jose. Parties, ninjas, candy, games, hilarity, introspection, music, and movies: Accepted, Basketball Diaries, The Beach, Fearless, The Girl Next Door, Il Postino, The Illusionist, The Last Sword Drawn, The Protector, The Road Home, Roman ( Read more... )

Saw It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, A Shark Tale, The Shape of Things, The Pillow Book, and Snakes on a Plane, which made me flip out like a ninja!

(Also, I have just become an uncle!)

The Interview, Proof, Howl's Moving Castle, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Good Girl, World Trade Center, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and a few favorites revisited: Donnie Darko, Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Secretary, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.The struggle against a coterie of venomous oblations has impressed certain changes upon me: my hair has turned entirely ( Read more... )

For the fear of having greater worth in an area of lesser passion, I had been apprehensive about teaching digital arts. Unchanged by the ordeal upon which anxiety had pointlessly labored, everything feels so light as to be enchanted ( Read more... )

I have been awake for 26 hours, so I shall attempt to write something in the sleeplessly addled state wherein I find myself in a dorm room surrounded by cameras and cables and a plastic mattress with a single sheet upon it splashed with color from my crazy artistic days. Today I explored the Folger Shakespeare Library, read Joseph Campbell in the ( Read more... )

A few miles past midnight, a fox carrying a rabbit skirted through puddles of amber. It was especially strange, having just seen Spirited Away, ranked favorite in recent company of Bob Roberts, Ever After, Gattaca, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hoodwinked, and The Killing FieldsAfter it rained in the forest, all the red efts crawled to ( Read more... )

Work is becoming more noteworthy as I take new initiatives, like looking for reptiles and going dumpster diving. I also went running down a rural road with fish lining its margins. The fish were the length of neckties, cleaned vertebrae tressed with gristle freshly loosed from their heads.

Movies include Talk to Her, Brazil, The Boondock Saints, ( Read more... )

Saw Hairspray, Better Off Dead, X-Men 3, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Roger and Me and attended a performance evaluation where I discovered I am ineligible for any kind of advancement. The past year of working 50-80 hours a week and completing the tasks normally assigned to multiple people is entirely without reward, and at great personal expense. I'm too ( Read more... )