Hasta el día en que vuelva, de esta piedra nacerá mi talón definitivo, con su juego de crímenes, su yedra, su obstinación dramática, su olivo. Hasta el día en que vuelva, prosiguiendo, con franca rectitud de cojo amargo, de pozo en pozo, mi periplo, entiendo que el hombre ha de ser bueno, sin embargo. Hasta … More My Definitive Heel
This semester I am not teaching any foreign language courses and it is wonderful. Last semester on Facebook, I completed the quiz “What kind of elementary school teacher are you?” with the result Funny and Friendly. You are a very funny and friendly teacher. You like to make your classroom a fun place to be. … More Academic Mondays: Funny and Friendly?
It is the weekend, so we must sing! I sing that the Mardi Gras riders are on their way. The Mardi Gras riders are on their way here. They come from everywhere, but mostly from Grand Mamou. Will you receive this gang of Mardi Gras riders? Will you receive this gang of great drinkers? The … More Don Carnaval
Howard Zinn died last night at 7:12 PM, EST. Unable to face the State of the Union address, I was grading quizzes. One defined Romanticism as “a literary movement which arose in Germany in the late eighteenth century and then spread elsewhere and which, in contradistinction to Classicism, values imperfection and seeks darkness.” Axé.
“EVEN THOUGH the Superbowl is in the EVENING February 7 and in MIAMI, papers are still due IN PERSON, February 9 at 4! I can drive here from Miami in that time, and so can you!” Axé.
Oh when the Saints go marching in Oh when the Saints go marching in Yes, we’re going to be in the playoffs when those Saints go marching in. “Oh, what a beautiful audience is out there swinging with us!” Axé.
Why, a reader asks, are students and faculty alike expected to work so much? Ze says: What strikes me as really weird is how incredibly much work everyone is expected to do. Students, faculty, everyone. We’re all so busy that we collapse into puddles of stress at the end of the semester and every single … More Academic Mondays: On Overwork
It is the weekend, so we must sing! Here are Chris Thomas and his late father Tabby at a place we used to go in Baton Rouge. I am on my way to Angola. It is a good day for the drive because it is sunny. The area, up near the Natchez Trace, is very … More Chris Thomas
It is Friday, so we are wearing white. I am wearing a long white shirt over a coral tank dress from Brazil, and Dr. Scholl’s Original Exercise Sandals ;-). It is January 22 and mild, and we are bathed in Oxalá’s bright light. Axé.
For pleasure I am reading the Moroccan Letters of Cadalso, after which I will read his Lugubrious Nights. These books come from a strange and different world, I must say. To be able to read them is rather wonderful. Axé.
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