insomnia + victory
I’ve been wide awake since 4am and thought about blogging the whole time but wanted to will myself back to sleep. For the past week I have barely gotten more than 5 hours of sleep each night and when I took something for my headache, it just made me a”medicine head” all yesterday. Now that [...]
beat me to it
I just spent some of this afternoon working on my essay for Lisa’s Placeblogging Project and felt good about it, considering I felt sinusy all morning and didn’t want to leave the house. Well I come home and find this excellent piece already written about the same topic I’m writing on: “Blogs are building community [...]
The Blogger SAT Challenge
Also from the tech-rhet listserv, I learned about this “Challenge.” Kind of an interesting idea that bloggers might be better writers, but… I’m very much anti-standardized testing and “inane writing prompts,” but I am also against the generalization that blogs are “pointless rants.” How can they expect anything useful to come from this challenge when [...]
Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke"
Just found out from the Tech-Rhet listserv that Lee’s entire documentary was put up on Google video. I went to the links provided and only the one for Part 2 still works. Maybe they are updating things, but I will keep checking for Part 1 to return.
primavera primadonna
That’s me. I’m waiting until the Spring to take my exams. The decision was pretty much made up for me when the professor with whom I have to finish an Incomplete told me she had “an extraordinarily busy semester this term,” which I took to mean she didn’t want to deal with reading my 15 [...]
Floodwall
What an amazing idea! I checked the zip code list for mine, but it looks like they didn’t collect any from my street. I’m going to pass the info along to others though because a lot of street names looked familiar. Last fall 610 dresser drawers were recovered from the piles of ravaged belongings in [...]
grammar on film
I like “The Colons That Bind” best.
i'm begging you for help
I just spent an hour composing a blog post that detailed everything about what I am going through with preparing [or not preparing] for my doctoral exams and realized that none of it matters since the decision is mine to make whether or not I want to take them this semester or next. There are [...]
translator needed
I love this commercial anyway and can’t imagine being the actor or so-called “real person” who had to sit at the same table as Little Richard and keep a straight face! However, it is all the more funny with W superimposed. Thank you Jon Stewart!
Writing to be Whole Again: Narrating Disability, Illness and Trauma
I really was kidding in the previous post about forgetting what my fellow presenters and I proposed, but here’s the whole kit-n-kaboodle for those interested: An increasing number of people living with a disability, an illness, or having survived a natural disaster are narrating their life stories to experience healing. “Deformed” vs. “normal”, “diseased” vs. [...]
4Cs in NYC
Woohoo! Like so many other of my peeps, my 4Cs panel was accepted. Now I need to go back and see what it was we proposed…just joking! I also cannot wait to see some of my NYC pals again. When I lived in Boston I would be down there every month or so, then when [...]
numb
Tonight in my graduate course with Carolyn Ellis, Communicating Illness, Grief, and Loss, we went over the topics of Illness Narratives, Life Writing, and Wounded Storytellers. Dr. Ellis told us how she made her move from sociology to communication and we all discussed where we feel we fall on the critical, interpretive, naturalist continuum. We [...]
Kalypso's New Orleans
Kalypso’s New Orleans: Katrina + 1 Year is a wonderful 30+ minute film made by an 11-year old girl. She also did a film at the 6-month mark. She interviews her friends and neighbors [some of whom now live in Houston] and gives you an honest take on what it means to miss New Orleans [...]
still nothing
Just haven’t been in a bloggy mood. Trying to sort through my Fall teaching and course schedule. Met with the Graduate Director about my exam and dissertation committees and all is good on that front, so far. Starting to stress about studying, but at least I’m kind of in control of the reading lists. I [...]
Vanity Fair Extra
No, I’m not talking the Tom, Katie and Suri pictures [does anyone else think Suri looks Asian?], I’m just referring to the essay described below:. In Katrina’s Wake One year after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, residents are still weathering the storm. The author, a Louisiana native who managed Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, [...]
It's my birthday and I'll not blog if I want to!
Sorry about the continued absence from the blogosphere. We just keep having fun over here and it’s still better for my back to not sit at the computer if I don’t have to. The Twins game was awesome last night and the footlong hotdog was deliciouso! Now that the day is finally here, I don’t [...]
twins tonight!
The back is better, thank goodness! I remained offline for as much as possible anyway to be safe. Also, we’ve been doing a lot of pre-celebrating of my birthday. It’s tomorrow, but I insist on a week-long or more of fun times. See Megfest for someone more organized about her celebrations than me! So far [...]