Thoughts lately:
- Nothing--okay, very few things--beat the smell that happens when you bake chocolate chip cookies in the same(ish) room as a live Christmas tree.
- Chocolate chip cookie dough + small amounts of ginger & allspice = magic, baby.
- Why do my cookies keep falling? I've got to quit pretending I don't have to adjust for high altitude.
- I'm not kidding about the snow. I blame my inability to concentrate on the fact that the weather is acting like October 8th, not December 3rd. No snow? No finals, right?
- Again, folders within folders (within folders!) gives me such delight! (I've used the excuse of the perennial end-of-term "binder" assignment to sort through a couple of "Sort me!" piles in my teaching files.) (Ooh, rhymie.)
- Is perennial spelled with two Ns or two Rs?
- I'm going to miss so, so many things about campus and classes and generally being a student. I keep trying to invent these rights of passage and give them some kind of artificial meaning--"Oh no, I have to spend all the money on my signature card!" (All $4.78 of it.) "I've never been to/done/seen _____! I've got to go/do/see it before I'm never on campus again!" (Right. I can't even think of anything for the blank.) And so on... Sometimes I wonder if half the reason I went into teaching is so that I never really have to face that post-school get-a-real-job crisis--I just go back to school.
- Teaching for 7 hours straight (well, four 90-minute blocks) is exhausting. Bah.
BONUS! I just opened a can of Western Family 8 Flaky Jumbo Biscuits and there were NINE! Really! Scott even counted them, too! (I.e. it's not my math "skills" that made this magic!)
Scott keeps giving me the not-quite-evil eye because he's hard at work and I'm ignoring my mounting deadlines. 8-page research paper, 15-page teaching unit, two smaller papers, and the rest of a novel to read . . . in less than 48 hours?
Whatever. I'm gonna go eat some cookies.
P.S. Dangit. Is that not a totally Dave Barry ending? I eventually stopped reading his column over my Sunday morning cereal bowl because it drove me crazy how he ended every single one exactly the same way: some kind of crisis he's been building up to is finally stated explicitly, and then he totally writes it off with some pithy remark about heaven knows what that's not-so-subtlely linked to whatever bookend he opened the article with. I'm not kidding...go read some Miami Herald archives or something.
2 comments:
Oh man, you will totally appreciate what just happened since Radio West annoys you, too.
So as you know, since you saw my post, I emailed him and he emailed me back! And so I emailed him again, and he emailed me back! And I emailed him again! This totally baffles me, because those radio interviewers sort of feel - well - not human? It turns out he is NOT gay (I always thought he was!) and he has a daughter at BYU, and guess what - he's LDS and a gospel doctrine teacher. What! WHAT!
That is what baffles me. How could he be LDS and let some of the people say some of the things they say on his show? Is it pressure from his superiors? Does he hate Utah so much he will do anything to not appear "Peter Priesthood"-ey? Danny says he thinks he's trying too hard to not be biased. What!??!
Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! Do you have a teaching job lined up yet? I don't remember - what are you teaching? Teaching is so fun. You will love it. It's so rewarding!
PS
I totally agree with you. KUER is 98% sans fautes if you eliminate the boring night-time jazz and frustrating non-challenging questions of Doug Fabrizio.
Have you ever seen the aquarium in the Eyring? I haven't. We should go :).
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