voncookie | June 30, 2006
…the next time I’ll bring my camera. I’ve been getting up with the sun this past week so that I can get to campus in time to fully prepare for class. I have my teaching portfolio well-organized (although it could be *more* organized–see my other blog for thoughts on what organization actually is.) so usually [...]
voncookie | June 29, 2006
… I am dismayed to announce that MS Word now recognizes “thesauruses” as an acceptable plural of “thesaurus”. On the bright side, it still accepts “thesauri” as valid. However, considering that the people at the WritersMarket.com website prefer the anglicized version, I have a feeling that, once again, Latin plurals are taking it right in [...]
voncookie | June 29, 2006
I’d like to announce that today marks my 100th entry into this blog, and I’d like to celebrate by apologizing for the glaring typo that I made in yesterday’s entry when I wrote “their” for “they’re” (I’ve corrected it now, don’t bother looking for it). I like to think of this horrible, unforgivable grammatical failure [...]
voncookie | June 28, 2006
I’m back, ha! Jitters are over and done with, tomorrow my students will do their first set of skits for class, and I am *so* excited about this. A typical Spanish-class skit will have students pretending to be in a travel agency asking for a ticket to Bolivia or Managua or something, or maybe have [...]
voncookie | June 25, 2006
I’ve been away for far too long. It’s not that there hasn’t been anything to write about–remind me to tell you about the dog in the wheelbarrow at some point–it’s just that there’s one *very* important thing that’s about to happen: I’m about to return to teaching after a year’s break from it. I’ve taken [...]
voncookie | June 22, 2006
My perfect driving record came abruptly to an end this evening, when I got pulled over for having a headlight out. I got a “fix-it” ticket. I have NO idea what that means. But I’m sure my insurance company is being notified of it at this very moment. Sucky sucky sucky. The ironic thing is [...]
voncookie | June 21, 2006
In the poem that I wrote for last week’s workshop–a spontaneous writing exercise that we all participated in online–I came up with a short, quick poem, that apparently was close to “saying all that it had to say” in that one first draft. (Although I think I’d call that a zero-draft, as it was done [...]
voncookie | June 21, 2006
In this corner the SF Giants! In the other corner, Los Angeles de Los Angeles de Anaheim. (Nice!) And sitting right behind you, a six year old Giants fan that is just beginning to grasp the way the game is played, and has huge, zeppelin-like lungs for screaming! Oh my, my first ballgame in years [...]
voncookie | June 20, 2006
For those of you with a Trader Joe’s nearby and a hankerin’ for some healthy food, check this out: Asian Vegetables with Beijing Style Soy Sauce: find it in the frozen foods aisle. Then add: TJ’s Baked Tofu (either Teriyaki or Thai flavor) Stir fry veggies + tofu for five minutes in olive oil (or [...]
voncookie | June 19, 2006
I know that it is often said that one way to delay working on something is to attempt to organize your efforts. Organizing your project gives you a (false) sense that you are actually working on the task at hand, that you are facilitating its progress by ostensibly by attempting to make things “easier on [...]
voncookie | June 19, 2006
While I was in New Jersey, the first day and the last day I was there, I embarked upon a project that I’ve been meaning to do for, well, about six years now. The project: organize my thousands of photos somehow. This all started because I needed more material for the “Retro Photo” section of [...]
voncookie | June 19, 2006
“Alien Face”–That’s the “appliance”–a cruel piece of orthodontia that was supposed to correct my overbite. I think I spent more time with it in *this* position, which was a whole lot funnier than actually wearing it the way I was supposed to.
voncookie | June 17, 2006
A disclaimer: I love the magazine “Poets & Writers”. Love it. But their last issue (not the one on the stands, the one before that… April/May issue, I think, not the one with Wole Soyinka on the cover) has really made me think about what it is that I actually want from this writing gig, [...]
voncookie | June 17, 2006
I keep wondering if I can infinitely revise a poem that I’ve written, be it yesterday or 10 years ago. I think I’ve mentioned this already. Because I have a poem that I need to revise, but I feel like I’m emotionally finished with it. In that case, when you’re expected to revise it, do [...]
voncookie | June 16, 2006
I’ve been out of undergrad for almost ten years now, being a 1997 grad myself. When I was in college, I spent my first three semesters as a biochem major at a miserable university that shall remain nameless. I gave up pre-med stuff when I had this conversation with a fellow premed student as we [...]
