I'm sorry for neglecting this; I'll try not to in the future. Then again, I said that six months ago, and look how that turned out ( Read more... )

Sorry for not updating this much... things are looking very bad here. I can't find a job. I don't know where to look, which doesn't help, and the temp agencies are being notoriously slow of late. So I'm completely broke, and that is my primary concern at the moment ( Read more... )

I didn't get to bed when I expected to get to bed ( Read more... )

Those of you who are familiar with my comedy* have no doubt heard stories of my Teen Angst Poetry -- how I keep it in a folder, how it is, in fact, not Teen Angst Poetry but another sort of writing entirely, and so forth ( Read more... )

...don't ( Read more... )

So I suppose I'll get right to the matter that's been chiefly occupying my mind for the past few days -- perhaps not the matter that should be occupying my mind, because there's so much else happening, but the matter that is in fact doing so. There is, you see, a woman -- a woman who helped me move out of my old apartment, and with whom I have ( Read more... )

CHAPTER I: ON MY ACADEMIC FUTURE"It will be," I say, "postponed until April." Having met with little luck completing my unfinished work, I'm compelled to take the next quarter off. I will work as a temp; in my spare time, I will catch up. Ultimately, I am not sure whether I want to be a teacher, but I have resolved to at least complete the ( Read more... )

I've been racking my brain to think of a twentieth-century short story to use in the hypothetical English class syllabus I'm putting together. The theme is "writers writing about other writers" -- so I'm doing a lot of Restoration/18th-century satirical poetry, which leads on into the parts in Byron where he complains about Wordsworth. (And ( Read more... )

I feel kind of guilty suffering from so many sudden mood swings, as though I should really just decide whether to be happy or unhappy and proceed to do that. But I've had a good day or two lately, and if my motivation keeps building and I can get those accursed papers done, I see no reason to ever be unhappy again. Not saying I won't do it; not ( Read more... )

Tomorrow: First English 10A TA meeting, 10 AM. Possible comedy show (attending), 9 PM ( Read more... )