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I am presently conducting an online mini-course with students in America and Jordan about the subject of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. OR more specifically about conceptions of beauty and the relationship between youth, looks, and power. I hope to learn a lot. It certainly has me asking...
1. Draw hot bath, add bubbles. Bubbles are too old, don't foam. Eh, so what. Watch tuxedo cat watch water. 2. Turn on soft all-instrumental music to drown out neighborhood noises and funny sound of rattling plastic in bedroom. 3. Sit in bath. 4. Veg. AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. 5. Have tuxedo cat sniff at you,...
"How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?" ~William Shakespeare from Henry IV, Part II No rest this evening. Things went...
It's hard to stay focused the last few weeks, and I feel myself wandering away from what I should be working on. Sure, the world looks different lately, and I anticipated that. What I didn't anticipate were the ups and downs I'm feeling. It's almost manic in nature, and I almost feel a bit crazy. I...
At the end of the weekend, I find that I accomplished nothing I set out to do at all. We can see a path we want to take, but if we focus on where the path will take us, we kind of lose the journey. The test flight aborted, we'll try again some other time. I'm disappointed, but not defeated.
I am feeling the knots form under my flesh lumps and bumps that are tender and twitching stiff, tight, tough, muscles they are holding the stress I am feeling, they remember how this feels they are undoing the past two years of unwinding my shoulders and neck tend to have great memories for pain the...
Too often, I find myself dragged into relationships that I should avoid. My list of failed relationships is long, and I can't take credit for all the failures. I think that people reach out for each other when they are most in trouble, and I'm a soft place to land. I'm loving and supportive, kind...
Powerfully chaotic storms carve a swath through your life, causing damage and throwing everything to the wind. They are as destructive as they are beautiful in their purpose. They give you perspective on things you may not have seen unless you have everything laying at your feet. Your walls torn...
[ASSIGNED: SUCCESS STORY] Why is it so much harder for me to write the success story blog than the failure story? I can think of small and large things I was successful with in my first year teaching: I can teach the hell out of vocabulary in a way that makes it constructive; and I can break down an...
And so it goes... It's odd to take a step back from your life and take a look at all the chapters you've written. Some of them, I'm not too proud of. In fact, I think that I am proud of very few of them at this point. But lately, I've been straying from the theme, forging into territory that is not...
We have a playdate in half an hour. Approximately one hour ago I was getting myself dressed and thinking how nice it was that the children play so well together that I can leave them in the living room. Then I came out to get a load of laundry done and to get them dressed. And I entered Chaos. Every...
Hair spray went on the hair and deodorant in the armpit - Friday is looking good! The zipper on my coat had me momentarily floundering, but Mr FD zipped me in nice and snug and thus saved the day. Men are indeeed good for many things. Make it a good one, people - it s the only Friday you get this...
by Evan Long e-mail: evanlong ATSYMBOL xmail PERIOD net website: http://www.xmail.net/evanlong/ This is a picture of two dead boys in a high school library. The picture, like all pictures, has a thousand words behind it, many of which have not yet been spoken. There are other pictures related to...
So I am currently amidst the herculean task of packing and spring-cleaning my room. It's the 2 weeks in the year when I have unbridled authority to be as messy as I need to. Mum doesn't complain because she's pleased that I'm re-organizing my most nuclear environment, and by extension, or so she...
A 100-year-old New Zealand man and his 99-year-old wife have had a lucky escape after driving the wrong way along a highway near Wellington. Police say the mature duo was travelling through Ngauranga Gorge, just north of Wellington around 9:00pm yesterday (local time). The driver accidentally turned...
Hidey ho, readers. I've almost completely calmed down from today's incident, which will be covered in the next post, so I figured it's a good time to review the past week or so. In my last one-liner post I assumed that I had previously detailed the "everyone" that "showed up." I just skimmed over...
It's been a friggin chaotic weekend... Complication is my claim to fame. I can’t believe there’s another, Constantly just another And I can’t avoid what I can’t control I’m losing ground, still I can’t stand down I Know, yeah I know… Yeah - Mute Math, "Chaos"
Sorry about the gap in regularity. It's been chaos since everyone started showing up. I'll have to recap after its all over.
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