Machina Memorialis: Vitanza Quote Found While Marking Time in the Archive—clipping this quotation because it may be useful for my C&W paper.
Category: Personal Journal
YALit: Girl in a Cage: Importance of Being Earnest
Girl in a Cage: Importance of Being Earnest—I gush over Donorboy and then the author of the book writes a blog entry questioning the value of authenticity and earnestness. Now what am I supposed to do? Granted he finally decides…
In the News: Learning in the Classroom by Reaching Out to Others
Learning in the Classroom by Reaching Out to Others—description of a 3rd grade social action project, making books for younger children. The article describes the purpose of the activity: “Making the books is part of a literacy project designed not…
How to bind a book – Lifehacker
How to bind a book – Lifehacker—okay, so I may not have a really good excuse to bind my own book, but at least I have the instructions should it become necessary.
In the News: Be Afraid
Don’t Talk to Invisible Strangers – New York Times and IMs: What’s a Mother to Do? – Washington Post—goodie! More fearmongering article to annoy me. It’s not that I don’t believe that people (not just kids, but anyone) can get…
Daily Work: Filth Management
For reasons that still aren’t clear to me, I went to bed last night at 10:30, and I actually got hours and hours of great sleep. Woke up completely refreshed, and ready to tackle the world. From this well-rested perspective,…
Daily Work: Opossum Trauma Abates
The harrowing night of the opossum yielded to the treacherous morn of the opossum. In other words, when I got up this morning, he was still in the driveway. He hadn’t moved since that rolling over that I noticed at…
Musings: Playing Opossum
This evening when I got home from work, I was “greeted” by a opossum, lying across the driveway (artist’s representation). He won’t move. I drove up to him, and he just sat there. I beeped at him. I finally had…
Daily Work of a Sort
I finally gave up on the GIC blog publication as it was and put the blog on my other server. So now available for your perusal is tengrrl @ gic.blogshares.com. Other than that, I watched the Oscars and mainly lamented…
Daily Work: Lazy Disappointment
I’m such a wastoid today. I never managed to get any of the things done that I should have this weekend. How do I manage to accomplish so little? I know. By sleeping all day. But I just can’t manage…