June 2009
1 post
Week of Revelations
I hope my posting on this blog isn’t reflective of the frequency (rather, infrequency) with which I have something interesting to say. If it did, I wouldn’t be surprised. Hell, throw it on the pile of self-reflection I started…when was it, last Sunday?
I was having lunch with some friends, and one of them was talking about how her mother was driving her stepfather, who had...
December 2008
1 post
Hello again
So, the last time I posted on this thing was at the very beginning of the semester. It’s now the week after the end of the semester, so do the math. I’m horrible with blogs; I don’t know why I keep trying to do them besides the fact that I enjoy them when I remember to update. And I’m remembering now, here, what, four months later?
Lets see, what has transpired in the...
August 2008
6 posts
A Note to Maude the Ipod
I’m listening to my Radiohead station on Pandora this morning and a song from Modest Mouse’s The Moon and Antarctica just came on. I had forgotten how much I love that album and really, in the wake of their last horrible album, how much I love that band.
And Pinback came on my Radiohead station too! (attesting, I’m sure, to Radiohead’s far reaching badassity)
Why have I...
Gettin' Oriented
Next week is the first week of classes and so this week I’ve got a bunch of orientations that I probably should have had at the beginning of my graduate career. I actually really enjoy orientations and workshops and stuff like that, it’s like school with no real responsibilities. And these orientations are full of practical information *sigh* how I love practical information…
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Gawker Makes Predictions about Real World:... →
Gawker never fails to make me happy inside, today especially with its incredibly insightful guesses about the new cast of the Real World. Every season of The Real World since Hawaii has looked suspiciously like my Sophomore year of college, (read: drunken and misguided). Especially because, like me before that fateful sophomore year, it seemed to have such wonderfully interesting (dare I say...
The Crock of Glen Campbell →
Let me preface this by saying that I grew up in the south and thusly couldn’t avoid classic country music. My mother still owns the Jeanne C. Reilly 8-track that she lip-synched to at her middle school talent show. Her most prized possession is a shirt with a possum in a rocking chair signed by George Jones (known as the Old Possum…famous for his song “I don’t need no...
Talk about Nightmare →
This is the single worst piece of casting I have ever witnessed in my life. Worse than Tara Reid as a rocket scientist or whatever in Alone in the Dark, worse than-you know, I am so disgusted that I just can’t think of anything else. I’m horrified for all the wrong reasons.
Hump Day Dreaming
It’s been awhile, I know. I’ve been slaving away at school, trying to finish up all of things due on THE LAST DAY of class. But’s it’s all done now and I got my grades back and I got all A’s! (Of course, they also came with a note saying something about how I still owe tuition and blah blah accounts recievable. All my shit it paid for, yo. I don’t know what...
July 2008
14 posts
HGTV is my god now
Why am I obsessed with this channel? I watch it non stop and I don’t even have cable (thank you again, internet. For everything). Maybe because I am sort of fascinated by looking at other people’s houses (and scoping out new houses for myself) but I could watch home improvement shows literally all day. I’m watching one right now as I write this.
I’m also doing the wii fit,...
Kitty + Nuts = Monday!
Nothing like starting out your week with a picture of a kitten and some nuts.
Anyway, my constructive, beginning of the week list thing that I was determined to do went to shit, so instead I’m going to write out a to do list for the next two weeks:
1. Mulvey Presentation (Tuesday) Finish speaking outline, Give
2. Butler Paper (Aug 8) Finish reading Butler, try not to kill myself, read...
Reaching new levels of sleepy inconstancy
I seem to be backsliding into my former late-sleeping life. I was doing so well at the beginning of the summer, waking up at 6:30-7, exercising everyday, eating, well, not so well, but still. I felt like I was adulting up a little.
That being said, I feel I get plenty of exercise walking around campus in the massive, amorphous humidity shroud. And I suppose it says a lot that I enjoy waking up...
White shame
I’m offically over the halfway point of the semester by about an hour. I am given little happiness from this when I consider how bottom-heavy with work the second half of the semester is. Yes, I know, all semesters are like this. I don’t care, I want a bigger feeling of relief.
I’ve got a 15 pager on a fairly obscure article from which I’ve formulated a very obscure paper...
Not Down with the Sickness and the mythical Panel...
So I’ve got some sort of…ailment. I don’t know what it is, though, so I don’t know what to take to get rid of it. Sinus medicine? Cold medicine? Oxycotin?
So i’m just chugging nyquil before I go to sleep and taking excedrin during the day. If we were so intelligently designed, why didn’t ‘god’ equip us with some sort of panel that tells us what is...
Ever have one of those two and a half weeks...
…where nothing/very little seems to go right?
You have?
I should stop bitching because everybody has bad days and at least I don’t live in Guatemala?
I guess you are right.
But before I go and wallow, I just wanna say goodbye Bryant Park Project. You will be missed. Especially if NPR doesn’t leave your archives up on its website for me to plunder while at work.
Thank you...
Today sucked
Hang in there!
Week 3 Objectives
I think that henceforth I will start out the remaining weeks of Pedagogy Boot Camp (PBC) with a nice, strong, constructive list about my goals and duties for that forthcoming week.
Goals/Duties for Week 3
-Finish and present the Hall Powerpoint
-Well, Okay, read Hall first and then do the powerpoint
-Reread the Bridget Jones Chapter and write a kick ass essay
-Do all my readings for class in...
Unabomber + Zodiac....Same Guy?! (no.)
Seriously, when did it get to be Sunday? I feel like I was cheated, I want to start back over at Friday and sit on my ass for three days straight all over again.
Sundays would be the perfect day if not for the dark hovering cloud of Monday. Sunday almost forces one to be unproductive. Today has been especially bad, I slept in until 8:30 (scandalous!), watched cable (HGTV), took a nap and now...
What a day this has been/What a rare mood I'm...
…okay, it’s not rare (contrary to the tone of the last entry), but I’m in a great mood this morning.
(I was trying to find a really obnoxiously happy sun. Think I did it.)
I’ve got the prospect of coffee waiting, my check is in the mail, my hair is doing well so far today (hell, I might just keep it long!) and i’m done with my second out of six weeks of pedagogy...
I've exhausted the internet? I've exhausted my...
Usually, I wake up early in the morning (earlier lately) so I can have an hour or so to myself in the morning before having to enter the real world. As an only child who lives with someone (who I dearly, dearly love) I need a little Jessy time, it’s for recharging and recentering and blah blah blah. I spend it screwing around on the internet, looking for apartments and jobs in Chicago and...
Maniacal Laughter...
…as soon as my loan money comes in I’m chopping my hair off. This shit is getting to be bananas.
It's the devil I love
Damn but I understand this song. I don’t care how sensitive, indie kid that makes me.
“Hold On, Hold On” by Neko Case The most tender place in my heart is for strangers I know it’s unkind but my own blood is much too dangerous Hangin’ round the ceiling half the time Hangin’ round the ceiling half the time Compared to some I’ve been around But I...
Holy Crap...
…Was I this messed up about school at the beginning of last semester?
I honestly don’t remember. I think I must have been. I think I must be this messed up about any new thing I do. I’m just so afraid to make the wrong decision, so I don’t feel good about any decisions I make, ever. I think too much. And I doubt myself too much. And I’m tired of Tallahassee.
Here is...
June 2008
7 posts
4 tags
Anton Corbijn+Wii Fit=Excellent. Who'da Thunk?
I had the most satisfying exercise session of my life last night, watching Corbijn’s Director’s Label and doing the free step on my best friend, the wii fit. I couldn’t believe how pumped up it made me. I mean, doesn’t this video just make you want to step? It’s like German Expressionism-meets-Phantasm. Awesome.
Propaganda’s Dr. Mabuse
I know that sounds...
Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage
Okay, so one of the things that have been consuming my thoughts and a great deal of my time lately, is, strangely enough, exercise.
Talk to me a year ago and you’d be surprised too.
Since February, I’ve lost about 15 pounds, but I’ve just started exercising in earnest for the past month or so. I can’t go a day without doing it, and I’ve started to actually enjoy it....
My Heart Will Go On. And On.
Okay, so, I hate my job. If you couldn’t tell from the oh-so-subtle little jab I took at it last post. I hate it for oodles of reasons, but at the top of the list is that it bores me, often literally, to tears.
I bring up my job now because I need to go to it. The earlier I get there, the easier the long stretch of interminable hours is to swallow.
But instead of going to work, I thought,...
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Tick-ed Off, or, the Wondrous Mysteries of Nature
So last night, Kevin woke me up and asked me to rub his back. No problem, I’ve been a little sore lately too. I’m still half asleep when I reach back to rub my lower back and find a little scab thing on my right side.
Almost immediately, I realize that it’s a tick and not a scab and I quickly rip the little insect asshole off of my skin. I realize that that is, perhaps, not...
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Friday the 13th
I’m just going to use up the entire internets with my failed blog efforts. But I can’t give up on the medium, all the cool kids are doing it.
My blogging problems of late are founded in the fact that I feel like if I’m writing a blog, it should be for the blog for which I get paid. But I suppose, career wise, it’s good to have a blogspace of one’s very own. Unless...