I sank in the chair. 4 more weeks, I said, and then I can wear the hair god protectively gave my welsh ancestors to blend in with the sheep and not be eaten by Britons.
you know the story said the girl who cuts my hair, if you can sit still while I take it out, you can wear your natural hair.
I sank more, remembeering that hair extensions were supposed to be a 2 week expirment for me last year. But I couldn't sit still to have them unextended, so we just kept gradually maintaing what is there.
do you have any evidence to support the idea thtat in 4 weeks you will be able to sit stull while I take the knots out
no
then you can expect the same thing to keep happening
I started feeling really really bad about myself, and then a smart idea happened in my mind. The smart idea is to shave my head and start over and just wear someone elses' hair NOT attached to my head for 4 weeks and then simply stop wearing the other persons' hair. I got this idea from the book I am reading.
So that's what I did. And I'm extremely proud of my decision. And of this custom made hairpeice. It's feather light and feels like a terrycloth tee. It looks expensively real.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Ew!
Neal lay on the bed wrapping a strand of Meg's hair around his ring finger. Ew, he said, I make myself sick.
as told to Joel
Every time I read this with my students, I try to match the people around me to the characters in the autobiography, I said to Joel. For instance I am the fierce spirited Malcolm with a flair for storytelling, fjr is Cassius Clay and Elijah is--
Wait, said joel calmly. Tell me who fjr is again?
Cassius. Cassius clay.
Joel looked as though he was going to burst.
Wait, said joel calmly. Tell me who fjr is again?
Cassius. Cassius clay.
Joel looked as though he was going to burst.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
students with crushes
How you react really does depend on your secret evaluation of their appearance.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
smartasses
My students and I read The Autobiography of Malcom X together every semester. Their papers were due yesterday.
2 students stayed after class.
Student 1 said he could not write his paper because his car caught on fire.
Now is that the real truth, said student 2, or the truth as told to Alex Haley?
2 students stayed after class.
Student 1 said he could not write his paper because his car caught on fire.
Now is that the real truth, said student 2, or the truth as told to Alex Haley?
boredom
Last night Madison tipped over her toy box and a grownup cabbage patch doll and a football tumbled out.
Let's play house, said Madison, grabbing the doll, I'll be the mommy, and you be the football.
Let's play house, said Madison, grabbing the doll, I'll be the mommy, and you be the football.
my students are smarter than yours
My English 1020 student, Christine, explains Diels-Adler reactions to nonspecialists:
I thought the best way to start talking about a fairly dry and complex subject might be to make an analogy. Instead of your everyday analogy I am going to relate a Diels-Alder reaction to the events of a smutty novel. After the analogy I will then explain the terms and concepts and might still seem a little fuzzy to those non-pasty, real carbon based life forms (a.k.a. people). However, before we get too far ahead of ourselves I will need to make up names for the molecules involved in this reaction. The part of Diane Dieneophile will be played by a dieneophile. The conjoined twins Dan and Derek Butadiene will be played by a butadiene.
I thought the best way to start talking about a fairly dry and complex subject might be to make an analogy. Instead of your everyday analogy I am going to relate a Diels-Alder reaction to the events of a smutty novel. After the analogy I will then explain the terms and concepts and might still seem a little fuzzy to those non-pasty, real carbon based life forms (a.k.a. people). However, before we get too far ahead of ourselves I will need to make up names for the molecules involved in this reaction. The part of Diane Dieneophile will be played by a dieneophile. The conjoined twins Dan and Derek Butadiene will be played by a butadiene.
a hindu reads the warning label
summary of human history: how men formed a complex, intimate bond with hazardous materials
a hindu perspective on the Nation
Lots of mornings I wish I owned nothing but a breifcase, dress slacks and my car.
But nothing is not something that you can own or be.
But nothing is not something that you can own or be.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Eastside attitude
Today when the homeless man said, how much for a blow job, I almost replied in disgust.
but I was too tired to say the word "ecofeminism".
(pause)
five hundred dollars, I said.
And the homless man went away.
Hey, I shouted after him, we all gotta make a living in this fucking economy.
but I was too tired to say the word "ecofeminism".
(pause)
five hundred dollars, I said.
And the homless man went away.
Hey, I shouted after him, we all gotta make a living in this fucking economy.
meet
Meghan.
Proposed name change: Nealandmeghan.
It's neat how, when two people stick together, their names turn into 1 linguistic unit.
Sharon calls Richard and trish Rishandtrichard,switching the consonants for an added creep factor.
Proposed name change: Nealandmeghan.
It's neat how, when two people stick together, their names turn into 1 linguistic unit.
Sharon calls Richard and trish Rishandtrichard,switching the consonants for an added creep factor.
tacit knowledge
I know that if I were to just stop eating animals and segue back to natural hair, the Almighty and me could just...chill.
Monday, June 20, 2005
the second mary left the car
after the arabic festival I thought,
From a sociolingustic standpoint, what the HELL just happened? And I'll bet that if this conversation were to result in an actual buying trip, roxanne's friend Islam could help us see about those she-camels (see the episode where r. is nearly sold into sex slavery).
Hilary
From a sociolingustic standpoint, what the HELL just happened? And I'll bet that if this conversation were to result in an actual buying trip, roxanne's friend Islam could help us see about those she-camels (see the episode where r. is nearly sold into sex slavery).
Hilary
everything is illuminated
A. What if love is not wanting to be with someone all the time, wanting them all to yourself and being afraid that they are going to leave you?
(because I know I've never felt that way)
B. What if instead love means being able to look at someone and think, it does not exactly matter if you go or stay here with me because, in the end, what you are inspiring me to create in my own heart right now is FAR cooler than anything you are capable of taking away?
(because I know I've never felt that way)
B. What if instead love means being able to look at someone and think, it does not exactly matter if you go or stay here with me because, in the end, what you are inspiring me to create in my own heart right now is FAR cooler than anything you are capable of taking away?
you wish you had written this
This is a poem by amiri baraka about the theme of being approximately 24 years old.
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.
Or the broad edged silly music the wind
Makes when I run for a bus . . .
Things have come to that.
And now, each night I count the stars,
And each night I get the same number.
And when they will not come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.
Nobody sings anymore.
And then last night, I tiptoed up
To my daughter's room and heard her
Talking to someone, and when I opened
The door, there was no one there . . .
Only she on her knees, peeking into
Her own clasped hands
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.
Or the broad edged silly music the wind
Makes when I run for a bus . . .
Things have come to that.
And now, each night I count the stars,
And each night I get the same number.
And when they will not come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.
Nobody sings anymore.
And then last night, I tiptoed up
To my daughter's room and heard her
Talking to someone, and when I opened
The door, there was no one there . . .
Only she on her knees, peeking into
Her own clasped hands
current stats
patches of eczema: 11 (horray!)
current weight: 124 (on oral steroids). have embraced temporary plushness.
animals eaten: 4 (exemplary)
today's attack thoughts:
I live inside someone who hates me and look out her eyes
(not depressed, just reading baraka)
Joel's response:
wow, I love that line! You know, Winter semester I cancelled a week of class because I thought amiri baraka was coming to read at Wayne State. Then I found out it was a lie but class stayed cancelled because I had to recover from the POSSIBILITY of him coming to read here.
current weight: 124 (on oral steroids). have embraced temporary plushness.
animals eaten: 4 (exemplary)
today's attack thoughts:
I live inside someone who hates me and look out her eyes
(not depressed, just reading baraka)
Joel's response:
wow, I love that line! You know, Winter semester I cancelled a week of class because I thought amiri baraka was coming to read at Wayne State. Then I found out it was a lie but class stayed cancelled because I had to recover from the POSSIBILITY of him coming to read here.
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