Sordid Blog

Here’s the first thing I’ve learned in East Lansing: I miss graduate school.  A lot! I spent most of yesterday and all of today on the campus of Michigan State, which is really quite beautiful, even on overcast and rainy days. I’ve eavesdropped on classes, spent several hours in the Writing Center listening to tutors [...]

I’m now one day in to my visit to East Lansing, MI, for Feminisms & Rhetorics.  Terribly excited about this trip, largely because I get to spend a whole week with two of my favorite people, Trav and Matt. Despite the joy of a week with these two, and dear-hearts from MSU to boot, I’m [...]

I mean, it may not really have been the H1N1 (”Swine”) Flu, but I felt like ass yesterday and I’m here to tell you, sleeping Tuesday from noon until 6:00 p.m. was fantastic!  I’m not a napper, so the fact that I slept during the day is proof positive, IMHO, that I was sick.  Head [...]

It begins fairly slowly, the first morning walking the dogs and the humidity has been dialed back a bit, and even though it’s still in the mid-70s, you can feel that this 75 is different from the one you got at 6:00 a.m. a few weeks ago. And turning a corner, as you click the [...]

How do you not like a blog that starts that way?  I know I couldn’t … Tomorrow is our departmental back-t0-school party at Michelle and Shane’s.  A couple years ago, they started hosting the fall start-up event, and each year, it gets better.  Now, Michelle and Shane have fenced in the back yard, cleared the [...]

It’s hard to believe that a year has come and gone so quickly.  Can it really be that just this time last year, I was boarding a flight with 20 of the coolest college students ever and heading to London? ::Sigh::  But now, just 12 days away, I’ll be doing the same thing again. This [...]

This semester is now fairly officially drawing to a close and while I adore my students I couldn’t be happier to be finishing this one off.  So much to do and every just means I’m that much closer to a week with Jackson and the Baby Mamas, my nephew’s HS graduation, and three weeks in [...]

I’ve decided, I think, that I must build a wall, a bit like the wall that PSB’s building on their new CD Yes.
Protection (prevention)
Detection (detention)
There’s no where to defect to any more
I’m building a wall
A fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in

But my wall is going to be to save [...]

The weekend in Atlanta was a quick one, but a fun one.  Down on Friday and back on Sunday. We stayed with Julia in midtown, at her lovely 1920’s apartment on Ponce … what a great place, hardwood floors and all. Loved it. Saturday, because DDDtM was sick, I chose to take the extra ticket [...]

Seriously, this is what you’re worried about Charsleaze Charlice?  I’m so unbeliebly angered by this idiot, who must have been traumatized as a child by Mardi Gras as a native New Orleansian, because her tirade against professors who study controversial issues is frightening.  She seems to think that because one researches something, often not using [...]