voncookie | November 29, 2006
In spite of the fact that as I’m writing this I’m watching The Bold & the Beautiful, which would lead one to assume the contrary, I am completely overwhelmed with work right now. It’s the end of the semester—I believe we’ve already had this experience on this blog before—which means generalized insanity tends to ensue. [...]
voncookie | November 28, 2006
When I was taking my Qualifying Exams in ’05, I had one disastrous meeting with a professor of mine. I went in to talk to said professor about one of my lists—those dreadful lists of books, articles and poems that stand like gargoyles before the gates of success; they will all test you before the [...]
voncookie | November 25, 2006
…all my dishes are clean… ALL of them. wow. I’d call that a day well spent.
voncookie | November 25, 2006
I’m rockin’ out in my kitchen to my favorite dance music. “Dancing Queen” never sounds as good as it does when sung into a whisker with yellow rubber gloves on. I’m up to my elbows in suds and still wiggling around to “Since U Been Gone” and “Send Me On My Way”. For once, doing [...]
voncookie | November 25, 2006
…upon an autumn day. Our Grandma came to anchor in Winnebago Bay!” It’s my Grandma’s 90th birthday today, and I do so wish that I could be with my family in Virginia celebrating this incredible milestone. I wrote something for Grandma and sent along this photo, which was taken back in the summer of ’04. [...]
voncookie | November 23, 2006
I hope everyone’s having a lovely Thanksgiving day, all warm with family and friends. I’ll write more later, but I just wanted to wish everyone out there a happy day. I’m off to go be a bad vegetarian. Goose is a vegetable, right? Cheers!
voncookie | November 22, 2006
FYI: Eggnog Lattes are now available at Starbucks and other coffee locations. Enjoy one today! I guarantee you’ll feel a little Linus in you saying, “That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown!” Then lick your lips and try to forget you just consumed a wad of caffeine, fat and sugar totaling about 500 calories [...]
voncookie | November 22, 2006
Ha! Haaaaa haaaa haaaaaa! Oh, I am laughing my ass off right now! I’ve decided on a working title for my diss: “Total Eclipse of the Heart”: Cosmology and Sentimental Poetry of the 1920s. Of course, that’s not the exact title, but using that hideous Bonnie Tyler song as a reflection of some very serious [...]
voncookie | November 20, 2006
This war makes no sense. It makes no fucking sense whatsoever. All I see is tragedy. Someone, please come up with a solution so that this can finally come to an end. Please.
voncookie | November 20, 2006
Well, I’d say the activity went over fairly well. I think I’m going to write about it in my serious blog, though, so when that entry comes up, just check the left-hand side of this blog for the feed and click away! (Do you know how to say “click” in Spanish? It is “hacer ‘clic’”—”to [...]
voncookie | November 20, 2006
I gave my students an exercise today, where they took a work by Jacinto Benavente called “El nietecito”, and *without changing the text* (except for one small element, which I’ll discuss in a moment), modernize it for a present day audience, to make it applicable and compatible with the world(s) of today. Some of them [...]
voncookie | November 20, 2006
I’m going to try something new with my students today: I’m going to have them issue a casting call. We’ve just started with the drama unit, and I think it will be interesting to have them imagine a space, and characters and a setting in which to have an imaginary performance. We’ll see how it [...]
voncookie | November 20, 2006
I gave my students an exercise today, where they took a work by Jacinto Benavente called “El nietecito”, and *without changing the text* (except for one small element, which I’ll discuss in a moment), modernize it for a present day audience, to make it applicable and compatible with the world(s) of today. Some of them [...]
voncookie | November 19, 2006
I’ve been working my ass off for the past few days, thus nothing new since Friday. And there’s so much to say! Like about the crazy dude that stopped me on the street to tell me that I was alive (!) with color, Van Gogh’s colors, and hadn’t we met somewhere before? More on that [...]
voncookie | November 17, 2006
So, my therapist kicked my ass the other day. It was very funny… I walked into his office all in a tizzy about the dissertation, saying things like, “I’m not getting any work done. I need to understand why. I need to explore my relationship with my dissertation.” To which my therapist, Z, responded (I’ll [...]
