- 20:19 @muskrat_john PeeWee's Inferno sounds like one hell of a euphemism. #
- 13:29 @brotherusa @shelteriffic I'd label my bookshelves, and everything else, to help my daughter learn to read & to associate words w/things. #
- 01:19 OMG BEDTIME. Must finish a section of thesis intro tomorrow or face some sort of punishment. #
- 17:29 @dcorsetto In Japan there are toilets that have sinks built into the back for this reason. #
- 23:30 @NathanFillion Modern Bride and Southern Living. #
- 13:28 @Adri Yeah, I'll be taking one of those cigarettes. And, despite the name, an iPad. Waaaaant. #
- 14:38 Sorry, iPad. I thought it was love, but really it was fleeting lust. Just not meant to be for us. Maybe in a few years. #ipad #
- 16:40 UTPA Gradschool is social network stalking me. Get off the internet and back to work finding my application for graduation that you lost! #
I'm TAing again. Freshman comp, but a remedial section this time around. The kids seem pretty good for the most part, though, so I'm not terribly worried. I just feel like I need to be an extra awesome teacher because the bulk of them are ESL. Oh well, I go off on my little tangents and will continue to use pop culture references to get them to understand stuff. Today essays were like onions. Grammar and mechanics were the super thin outer layer, and content was the thicker layers, and the heart of the onion was the author's intent/ideas. Sadly, some of them hadn't seen Shrek. *sigh* Nobody understands me. At least my students make me feel like nobody under the age of 25 understands me. I maintain that is because I am too awesome. Oh well.
Hero continues to grow super fast and be amazing. She can do most of her alphabet, and pretty much count to ten. She knows all the letters individually, but when it's time to sing the song, the middle is a bit wobbly. But she tries. She's taken to trying to sing along with every song she even marginally knows. A couple of days ago she was drumming with chopsticks. I'm interested in seeing if this is going to turn out to be normal toddlers are interested in music stuff, or if she's going to go the music direction as far as her art side goes. I write, my brother was a pretty good actor before he gave it up, Dad is a visual artist, my cousin Jen is a visual artist, and her dad was a writer and actor. Uncle Leo does the Native American craft stuff and his son Christopher does that stuff as well as being a chef (which is totally an art). So the arts are strong in the Lopez family, just not especially in the musical direction.
Speaking of, my thesis is crap. I want to start everything all over again. Well, not really. But I do have a couple of stories that need so much rewriting that I may as well be starting from scratch. I also really need to sit down and get out a draft of my critical introduction. I'm having trouble with it, though. I know that things I want to talk about, but I feel like such a dork when I actually try to say them. It's a matter of confidence more than anything. I just need to realize that yes I'm allowed to speak as an authority on this stuff, because dammit I am one!
Okay that is enough of the talking from me.
- Mood:
thirsty
- 21:39 I wish I could get ahold of some #WoWloot. They're giving away BANANAS. I don't have a pet problem. 77 is not a problem! It's a collection. #
- 10:52 All kidding aside, congratulations to everyone at @CERN for getting the #LHC up and running without needing to use a #crowbar. (via @wilw) #
- 00:56 @jephjacques Now I'm morbidly curious about what comic it is. Or do you just mean in general? #
- 00:19 @neilhimself Happiest of birthdays! May it be lovely and full of tea. #
- 13:28 @Warcraft All the time. I wish there was a way for me to be able to re-dye my gear, paint it or *something*, either w/crafting or buy it. #
- 12:25 @MonkeyPunchers Brushing regularly helps and the kitties dig it. Silly name but the furminator is awesome. Pricey though, check eBay for it. #
- 10:28 RT Tweet "Grammar Devotional" and the following link for a chance to win the book: tinyurl.com/yz3r4sj. (via @GrammarGirl) #
*In class feel good writing assignments: Read! (And the blatant ass kissing wasn't nearly as nice as the honest "I feel better about myself as a student now" ones. But I'm not turning it down.)
*Birthday dinner: Eaten! (Finally. But it was super tasty and worth waiting for, and now I have a fridge full of ribs and brisket. Nom!)
*Plays watched today: 1! (All In the Timing at STC. It made me giggle mightily, but it was obvious that a people weren't getting all the jokes.)
*Possible houses to buy located: 4! But two of them are most probably out of our price range, and the other two are dare to dream situations.
*Times Puck has tried to delete this because OMG IT'S BEDTIME, MOM OFF THE COMPUTER!: 2 (Thank god for restore from draft.)
*Where I'm going right now: Bed. Alright, Puck? Bed. As if you're going to come cuddle anyhow, you just want me asleep and not knowing what you're up to. I remember my sneak out strategies from when I was a teenager! (The thought of having a teenage girl is terrifying, not because of teenage boys, but because I remember what it was like.)
- Mood:
tired
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persephoneflame, and various and assorted other people. There were assorted hijinx, as one might expect, but the highlight was Adri creating a "nagbook" which was a netbook she modified to nag you until you actually worked on whatever it is you were supposed to be doing. I said something about maybe I needed one for my thesis. Then Neil Gaiman gave me a stern, but gentle, lecture about getting my ass in gear and working on that. It's so wonderful to have subtle, nuanced dreams. >.<In thesis news, I have 59 pages done right at this moment. Jean (my committee chair) wants 90 pages and a start on my bibliography by the end of November. I've got at least another 10 pages on the story I'm working on right now, so that puts me in the 70ish area. I wanted to write something new, and that would do up those last 20 pages, but I'll have to write fast. Plus it's really supposed to be 90 polished, nearly ready to go gages, and I still have a lot of editing to do. Actually, there's another story that needs some major rewriting that will push the page count up, so I may not have quite as much to do as I though. We'll see, though. I'm worried that I'm going to have a to drop a story, because I'm not sure how well it's fitting in with the rest of the collection. And I really ought to start the bibliography.
But today will be good! We're got comp tickets to a play at STC (I think it's All in the Timing, but I might be wrong). Cool enough in itself, but we're comped because of more potential awesomeness. And after the play we're doing my birthday dinner with my family. Yes, it's been nearly a week.
And I'm ignoring the fact that I have a stack of project proposals to read through from my students. But at least they're short. I'll get to them.
- 14:20 @MonkeyPunchers I always see it when I'm going to school, but I've never gone in. How is it? #
- 18:03 @NathanFillion I'll indulge in large ammounts of geekery in celebration of my friend's 30th b-day tomorrow & my 29th on Mon. Feed the birds. #
- 02:13 @Adri Going to bed after agonizing about how I'd like to stay up and write, but deciding I'm terrible and everything sucks. LIKE A WRITER =D #
