archives for April 2008
status report: today’s end of classes predictably followed by total physical systems failure
Tuesday 29 April 2008 | someone left a cookie
It’s a hard life on women, for a fact. Some women. I mind my mammy lived to be seventy and more. Worked every day, rain or shine; never a sick day since her last chap was born until one day she kind of looked around her and then she went and taken that lace-trimmed nightgown […]
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as we approach our final descent
Tuesday 29 April 2008 | someone left a cookie
Dear rhetoricians—tomorrow is our LAST CLASS and we must arrive prepared. Therefore:
1) Get a good night’s sleep HAHAHAHAHA!
2) Bring your coffee mug for the delightful regional beverage we will be served [horchata and pan dulce]….and
3) Don’t forget an extra copy of your project so you can mail it off and get that extra credit we […]
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material mondays · zazu’s petals
Monday 28 April 2008 | I like a cookie
Zazu by Tina Givens for FreeSpirit: chrysanthymums in teal, raspberry, and the fabulous rich buttery yellow they call “Africa.” In a coin quilt on cream?
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friday refrains · brian diamond
Friday 25 April 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
The Un is especially pleased this week to present a poem by her colleague Mr. Brian Diamond (whom she calls, affectionately, “Briamond,” but faithless readers need not follow suit because it is kind of silly).
And who is this Briamond character? He himself kindly provided the following boilerplate bio: “A native of California, Brian studied at […]
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and when there’s nothing else to do?
Friday 25 April 2008 | someone left a cookie
You can always be astounded by Russian cake art.
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take *that,* stack attack
Wednesday 23 April 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar
White-girl problems, begone! Watch as I slay evanescent 21st-century dragons without batting a seasonally affective eyelash.
1. The Brujo lent me $40; no more overdraft. I get paid on Friday and can pay all the bills then. BAM.
2. I’ll get my dang Korean car running eventually. In the meantime I have a sexy baby-blue German […]
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stack attack continues
Tuesday 22 April 2008 | I like a cookie
• Not one but five seven nymph (head-of-a-pin-sized, but STILL) or infant palmetto bugs questing on countertop for coffee grounds at 2 am.
• Fragile student in morning class, all semester long on the verge of failing, emails to say s/he doesn’t understand paper assignment, making it clear in her/his reply that s/he hasn’t been in touch […]
things that after all this therapy still make me want to fall on the floor & die
Tuesday 22 April 2008 | someone left a cookie
Being overdrawn at the bank. When it’s nearly one a.m. and I’m PMSing and was in workshop from 1:30 until 7:30 getting my brain raked over its own coals and when I teach in mere hours and haven’t graded any papers and just spent a solid hour and a half replying to testy student emails […]
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best. cute. cat video. evar.
Monday 21 April 2008 | someone left a cookie
Even better than that one set to Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet.” Maybe.
(courtesy of mandarin)
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open message to the brujo
Sunday 20 April 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
Wear sunscreen, you moron.
