Friday Morning
April 20th, 2007It is raining in Los Angeles. We got some dining chairs, ones with backs. Now if somone will just buy our set of Pottery Barn Antique Honey Tibetan Stools on Craigslist. Linus was hungry this morning. He let us know this by trying to scalp me. Stevel took care of it. Stevel has been playing a lot of Guitar Hero II. He’s a mad Guitar Hero genius, but he’s very hard on himself when he misses a note. I’m not sure how many more times I can listen to “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” Not that I don’t deserve it, what with my own habit of putting a song on single-song repeat all day. Still. I just finished making up the final exam my creative writing students will take in two weeks. It’s an exam meant to hold them accountable for doing all of their reading homework. There isn’t much of the poetry on it this time, only a couple of questions. I wrote that because Stevel is always reminding me that my students can find my blog pretty easily, and for once, I’d like to reward the idustriousness of any of them industrious enough to Google their instructor. Study the stories, the articles and chapters and handouts. Know the difference between simile and metaphor. And if you haven’t read any of the stuff, read it, damn you.
April 21st, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Thank you for the tip on the exam…sorry I can’t help with the set of Pottery Barn Antique Honey Tibetan Stools!
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:45 am
Why could you not have been my modernist poery professor? Perhaps then I would not have spent the first twenty minutes of the exam crying in the bathroom.
BTW, when I Google, “Pottery Barn Antique Honey Tibetan Stools,” the first link on the page is one to your blog. You should put that as extra credit on the exam.
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:48 am
Reading my previous comment post-post, I found myself wishing you had been my Comp I professor as well. Sheesh.
May 15th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I think Stevel might find his match on Guitar Hero II in Nathan. We also have both the original Guitar Hero, as well as the sequal. He much prefers the second one. Approximately a week after he got it I could no longer play with him. He found himself frustrated at my inability to pass the Easy level on most songs. He was also unimpressed at the fact that as I could not play the songs, I could sing every word. That apparently doesnt make me cool…just old.