February 2012
17 posts
a collection of quotes from my professors:
“The level of frat-boyness in Charles’ court cannot be overstated.”
“I woke up, looked at the grey sky, and felt instantly depressed. The only way to get through the day is to embrace the grammar.”
“‘Feminist Grammarians.’ Don’t those just sound like people you want to invite to your next...
“The weather here warm enough for you?”
I can tell from his choice of conversation that he knows something about humanity. Weather—the classic choice for uncomfortable dinner chats, a snippet of discussion with a gas station attendant, small talk made between two strangers walking to their cars, as the two of us were now.
Weather—something that everyone experiences and lives in and most only...
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on not understanding modern poetry:
tell me one
more time
that good poetry
has to rhyme,
you entitled bitch.
text sent to a friend explaining why I was skipping my 9am:
“bed too warm. cat too snuggley.”
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“Sleigh Bells’ music is even oddly pretty, just as the miraculous functionality of an anxiety-inducing traffic pattern can be pretty. I imagine that messing with any of the widgets on their console during a mixdown would result in a track that could be used to torture enemy combatants, if not to trigger Scanners-caliber cranial kablooey. In concert, they do a masterful job of...
I have to read about cancer warnings on my... →
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Most Crushable Video Game Characters →
hilarious.
my main nap-spot in the library is currently occupied by someone actually doing schoolwork (annoying).
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chillin’ in the media viewing room in the library, watching planet earth (for free) on a flat screen, LIKE A BOSS.
January 2012
15 posts
Miss Kat: Today was great! →
katteaches:
I started off in a kinda bad mood today. But kids always make it better (no matter how much I dread going to school)!
First we visited and toured Gateway Center for special needs kids. I got teary eyed many times. These kids are precious and the teachers/staff/nurses care SO much about them. It’s…
KAT THIS IS THE SWEETEST THING I’VE EVER READ. I’ve been super...
“While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs
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The most exciting part of my weekend was buying Eloise a cat toy; otherwise I’ve divided my time between watching Tyler play LA Noire, avoiding reading assignments, and researching electric blankets. Counting this one a success.
Funniest thing I have heard today:
“just because you hardboil eggs, it doesn’t mean they last forever. Now the whole apartment smells like shit.”
Healthy eating post-new years attempt has been foiled. Little Ceasars is too cheap, and too good.
Had a dream last night that some one broke into the apartment and was just standing in the bedroom, watching me. Woke up from the dream and couldn’t breathe; Tyler had to wake up and calm me down, it was awful :(.
December 2011
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transmundane is my new favorite word.
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November 2011
11 posts
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There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are –
None may teach it – Any –
‘Tis the Seal Despair –
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the air –
When it comes, the Landscape listens –
Shadows – hold their breath –...
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Supporting ELL students
Any ideas for easy things I could make or do with ELL students? (I just have a few more days left of internship, so I can't do as much as I'd like)
this might be a stretch, because you and I work with different age groups, but kids LOVE telling stories. maybe you could get them to "write" a little story as best they could? and if they like drawing/coloring, you could do something like they only get to"illustrate" (draw pictures of) words they learn how to say? like I said, I don't know if it would work, but maybe it could get the wheels turning : )
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a haiku:
hell’s a beautiful
library, stocked with nothing
but rick warren books.
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campus on lockdown because there is someone with a gun on campus. super stressed and unable to smoke a cigarette.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10358313/
the desire to do anything other than curl up on the couch is non existent. blah, school.
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“the last thing anyone needs is to have high school as the high point of their lives.”
-Mindy Kaling
October 2011
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