______________________________!
[exclamation]

______________________________   ______________________________ attend the ceremony and reception.
[your name]                                                         [will/will not]

We can't wait to ________________________________ & _________________________________.
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I saw three students, today. The first (a French minor) seemed bored and nervous; I don't think that I was of any help to her at all. The second (a level-one ESL student) is advancing so rapidly that I'm afraid she was placed into the wrong level. She is so quick and open with me; she speaks English with better pronunciation than does her husband, ( Read more... )

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Today, I worked with a student on the subjonctif tense. I was helping her with her homework when she wrote (rather, completed) a sentence with the present indicatif. "Ah, non!" I said. "The first part of your sentence is, 'Je regrette que...' -- when you express regret or doubt, use the subjonctif ( Read more... )

Jellyroll by Kevin Young; a book of bluesy poetry that sticks in the middle of my mind. Young eroticizes southern-styled food and reaches into his cultural conciousness & past to dig up something that I really dig, like the poem "Cakewalk." (A snippet: "Baby, you make / me want // to burn up all / my pies // to give over / and apple to fire // or ( Read more... )

I broke out in hives last night. They were the size of plates. I should have taken pictures; they were quite a sight. Now I am just generally poofy and red -- no hives, but white lines that out-line their former presence and red webs where the capillaries in my veins burst. Cool ( Read more... )

The Creative Writing Program at the U of A recommended Lisa for acceptance into the graduate program. Hooray Lisa! I'm proud of her (for no reason really other than I-knew-her-when) and glad, too! Not only has the Creative Writing Program at the U of A accepted Lisa, it has also once again proven the general superiority of the U of A to ASU, where ( Read more... )

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I spent the weekend in Flagstaff and am exhausted.

My wedding dress arrived on Saturday.

Fuck the people who are only friendly to me for what I can give them. Fuck fuck fuck the depressing guitar rifts, the clasped hands held over bibles, the paved drive-ways upon which I could smash so many skulls. I am so tired of giving to people who will never give anything back at all and I don't feel that I have any more pieces of myself to give ( Read more... )