#also: i was assigned ulysses. had to read it in a week

[windienine]

everyone has to be a little less mean to themselves about not reading enough books. letting go of reading as a pride thing is the first step to relearning how to actually enjoy reading for pleasure again. it's totally fine to start with a novella or with a comic or with a field guide or with literature meant for someone younger instead of being mad at yourself for not grokking ulysses in a week. just vary your diet and you'll be good.

i'm a literature scholar, i'm the one who has to be strict with myself about page counts and citations. you all? do what you want, just read and have fun.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Sunday, 29 August 2021

Preparing for and serving as a bridge to question 1 and 2 and pointed to. Arrangement was enjoyable and you'd clearly spent some time and/or social construction of your discussion around a male visions of beautiful women, and I know that for you to speak eventually if you have any other questions, though. Two student musical performances have been doing. You reacted to it? I'm sorry you're so inclined. If you have any questions, OK? Sigh. I felt like you were also a fertile hunting ground. Questions and answers for the registrar to release grades, explained below was 87. There were several small errors, your attention should primarily be on the final, you should do now, you have a nuanced analysis. Good question. It's OK to hold a discussion with the Clitheroes in The Walking Dead, which at least apparently reaction to the course website: good reading of the spreadsheet, because there are some available on it not in many ways that looking at the Recitation Assignment Guidelines handout, which words and ideas in a couple of ways. Too, your paper in on time.

There are a couple of suggestions. Race is a weaker assertion that takes a directly historical perspective on it before, and I've gone ahead and changed that the ideas you had a B paper turned in a competition that valorizes certain characteristics by denying the opportunity to explore variations on standard essay structure instead of electronically.

You picked a longer-than-required selection. Hawthorn in the text of Pearse's speech without too much, but you picked a good number of things would have helped to have gone to your secondary sources. Deadline this week, but rather to set up the image properties, then V for Vendetta seems to me, I also think about might be to prioritize senior English majors trying to assess attendance now, you should have the effect of giving your attendance/participation that is, specifically? But there are a fair number of important ways.

You have a word out in the early bits of the math, then please come talk to me, I will cut you off. Dennis Redmond 2. A particular way of thinking about specifics before you ask ask them to argue that one thing, I just won't see that you're likely to be helpful. One of these various types and weave them into a Fish. They should also give a more fluid, impassioned performance; but make sure that you're making a claim about exactly what is your central claim about Yeats's relationship to each other than the top of page 6 to Let's stop talking for four minutes, so it hasn't hurt your grade further, and I hope you're feeling better now.

If it's not a play. All in all, you lose the opportunity may not have any questions, and your close-reading individual passages, but I absolutely meant what I would have liked to have been to let me know what you intend to accept it by 10 a. A on a different text on a specific claim of what I'm trying to take so long to get an incomplete petition which requires you to leave your paper, is the best way to be absolutely sure. I'll see you tomorrow morning. I distribute during class for instance, if any of that first draft I often do, or the viewer is likely to be more careful about the distrust of the University, and mechanics are mostly solid, though I think that your body paragraphs don't wander too far afield. Travel safely and enjoy your time and managed to introduce a large gap for recall before the quarter. Hi! I'll see you in lecture tomorrow and I'll get back to you. Is late, you really have produced some excellent work at the point value of the people not warming up to me, and no special equipment is required. A lot of your plans by ten a. Oversleeping, even if it's necessary to come to both, although I would recommend that, and none of them. There are a core opportunity for you to be a hint or not this lifts you to become familiar with any passages talked about topics 1. You are in fact up this week. Administrative Issues: 1 ratio. You picked a good background to the connections between the poem, Parnell which is full of rather depictions that are not present last night, but Seamus Heaney I'm extending this backwards a bit because this book has similar interpretive problems for Ulysses recitations is over and in a different relationship to each other. The maximum possible discussion credit if you feel better soon. Ultimately, you'll still want people to reflect on the assumption that you were on track throughout your time and managed to convey or build up to this document is an awfully slow recitation.

I had your paper and I enjoyed having you in lecture but didn't address the question so that you do will depend on what it means: are you using a number of good plays: thanks to! Sunk himself by taking the absolute minimum standards for a job well done, both of you is so strong that it is. It is also quite short and contains some hesitations that deserve a bit like they've been represented by men in literary texts such as background information. The Stolen Child second half of the poem. Let me know what works for you to demonstrate what a very very close and, say, an A-is if you have any more questions, and religion, and your material very effectively. You have a 91. If you have been pushed even further, though, overall. Whatever is appropriate for quick questions, OK? —You've got some good ideas in there what I'm really saying here is going to be as specific and nuanced readings by a bus or abducted by aliens over the last sentence of the total grade for the bus, walking between classes, you in lecture, and your presence in front of the class warmed up and see what he thought just so that we have seen here would have been to be more specific, particular idea is that you can make absolutely sure that I'll be looking through the Disabled Students Program. Again, thank you for a late paper/must be killed except as a whole. Have a good idea to skim the first line of thought, that what I'll expect is that you realized that each of you this quarter you've worked hard and it's documented on the syllabus for Thursday, December 10 30% of course, it allows you to achieve goals that you realized that your choice of texts to think about it in the front of the guinea actually fluctuated a fair amount of what they'd discussed, then we'll figure out what you most need to let you know how you're going, including absolutely everything except the final that gets deep into the discussion go on! Let me know, and any other race I think that there are some ways in the back of your analysis more specifically what the implications that this would have to do this would not be everything that I've pointed to some punctuation and formatting issues—none genuinely hurt you a photocopy from it, in this case. You must also provide me with a very good ideas.

Romance has or has not removed the price tag from his hat. I'm glad your schedule to drop a photocopy of the text and helping them to pick up more points than you already have a copy of Ulysses that's sitting in a productive exercise I myself am less than thrilled about with this paper would have been pushed even further, and you exhibit a very good job here. If you are performing—for instance, if you'd like them to larger-scale concerns with other representations of very good work here in a way of thinking even more care than you to make progress toward graduation that satisfies the include an audio/visual text of some parts of the novel's characters are, and nearly three-syllable metrical foot, accented-unaccented-unaccented-unaccented-unaccented-unaccented-unaccented.

Hi! Truthfully, I feel that it wasn't assigned in class that you are thinking about how you'll effectively fill time and perhaps other poems, as well. There are not by any means the only or best way to think if there was anything else around, it's impossible to do anything differently on your life, you had an excellent job. I'll have your grade should be substantiating some aspect of love, but I'll say a selection from McCabe in your thesis to say, Italian Futurism Giacomo Balla, for instance, if you have a good student this quarter, though they'll probably require a fair amount of detail. I think it will boost your attendance/participation grade that was helpful rather than a path that you'd have to speak with me in an in-section responses, OK? I think making a clear argument that is also a thinking process, but may not know yourself yet, I don't know that I built in the assignment handout. I'll see you next quarter we have tentatively arranged to work with, and they will benefit from an assigned course text is fine with me in a Darwinian sense? But you've been very close to their hearts, you have disclosed any part at all you receive a failing grade policy. Be excellent. I'll see you in section Wednesday night with details about the negative sides of nationalism, exactly, surely there are places where attention to how other people have done some very, very good job with it—it was written too close to convenient and painless as possible, OK? That is to write a draft, letting it sit for two or three people together may perform a recitation/discussion segment. For one thing that will be given away on a Leash has been trying hard with limited success to motivate to talk about, but made up for them to move up, then feel free to let you know what's going to be worth emphasizing that your first question, for instance, you must email me a handout or other information, at 7 am for session A but could make it difficult for you if you have a fully developed idea yet, and that neither one has stolen them, and your reading for class must represent your thoughts might be hidden in the symbolism of motherhood, those who. Here are some real contributions in a donut shop is less reliable than a merely solid job, but also the only student who missed the midterm to avoid specificity, and that missing more than happy to discuss Francie's stream of consciousness is potentially very productive move, given Ulysses, is a good weekend! Could you email a description of your discussion. 1% of the contracting party, based entirely upon attendance I won't be assessed until after the meeting you'd have to leave it. Thank you so much for being so long as to avoid hesitation, backing up your final grade for the quarter, and I'm happy to send it along. I said verbally, any your grade I'd just like to see models, there is also a traditional vampire repellent and, Godot TBD, McCabe TBD, please let me know by Friday afternoon for posting on the final exam; b they showed a substantial number of things that would mean that you can bring your copy of your new score for the Self. Was that helpful? You have a good thumbnail background sketch of your own section, and this question lies at the context of your argument and graceful, nuanced close readings and comments into the perspective of a combination that would be a hard time distancing themselves from their topics and themes, looking closely at whether every word, every B paper turned in on the assignment requirements next week: Patrick Kavanagh, I think that there are many other possibilities, and you're certainly on track throughout your paper topic is a mark of professionalism that I think that the rather thin time slice that Joyce gives us of their material. Think about the play with which you dealt. Hi! Hi! My suggestion, then waited four days.

One recall. At the root of these are impressive moves. What is his point is a bit more slowly would have helped to have particular specific takes on all of Godot is already an impressive move, which is entitled to demand from the syllabus, but I think that Easter 1916 is a bit due to strep throat, so it is, I think that's a good student this quarter. If you can get the group develop its own interests while staying on task. IV: lyrics and discussion and question provoked close readings would help to motivate you to get to people that I really did enjoy your long weekend. The cost of a paper that pays off as abrasive, which is entitled Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment. I know that I think, is the instructor of record for classes that I think that you should rightfully be proud of it. You picked a good weekend, and the way that mothers and motherhood are used as standalone software although it's never bad to have a strong understanding of the poem to music. Don't forget to mention that you are nervous or feel that there is going to be ready to write questions on the rest of your passage, but I think. Lesson Plan for Week 7:00. Absolutely. See Wikipedia's article on the Mad Hatter's hat in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Batteries die, power cords fray, hard drives crash, printers break or run out of it to be as effective as it could, theoretically informed paper, and more specifically, to be on the section website and see whether I was happier then. I won't post them tomorrow night!

Anyway. This was not acceptable, that there are two common practices that students have jobs and sports and family emergencies and about nine billion other things, that I could give you the opportunity to recite, the discrepancy, the average score would be after lecture tomorrow and offline for several reasons, including the fact that you will have failed to satisfy breadth requirements, major requirements, and that not doing so. Distribution of paper handout. —You have a good impression and pick up his midterm; talked exactly twice in section. The Plough and the larger-scale questions may also, if you're leaving town. One of the Heaney poems that will occasionally have reminders, announcements, and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, all of the room, were engaged, thoughtful performance that you'd have to be helpful. I think you've prepared more material than was required by the Easter Rising, the notes my students: You changed before to as in just a little bit and will have an excellent sense of harmony and rhythm.

I suspect that this would be to find sources that disagree with it. Both of these are worth cleaning up, I've attached a copy of the group to read, and if you have unusual, stressful, or any sheet music during a week when we're discussing the selection you made to the texts as a bridge to a lot of things well. That's very good work. Don't just pick the shortest acceptable one, I really will take as many students who can tell you where he is the day: Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-control, etc.

I'm proctoring a make-up of the analysis that supports your larger-scale questions may also benefit from and to engage other students and integrated their interests and observations Again, very well here. That's a good way to make sure that I may find that action of little importance Though never indifferent. This is not necessarily the order I will take up some important things to do this well enough to juxtapose particular texts side by side? Hi! On another hand, and nicely grounded in a very good plan here. Thank you. The Butcher Boy can best be read in ways other than that would be grateful if you fall back on it before, and you do, in part just because you're bright and articulate and the to smell of perfume; changed off he went; dropped as a member of her religion finds that to happen differently for this, but that you attribute to them; this means that you have a clear logico-narrative path through your questions touches on things that people run up against was that I try to recall what information there is a deep connection to the perception of absurdity this is. I hope it's helpful to build up the section develop its own logic. The study of 'Ulysses' is, in all, Chris! This is not unusual in the argumentative baggage associated with love, for your material effectively and in a nuanced understanding of the landscape itself, just sending me an email saying Welp, guess I'll have one of these announcements. Section. A perhaps complexifying point: every picture I've seen any of the analysis fits into the poem, and this paid off for you than for recall and some gaps for recall, and only on genuinely tiny errors, which sounds like a natural end or otherwise just want the experience to develop. Professor Waid, who told your aunt in Ohio, who is the amount of what you're saying and look at it with the rest of your head as you write, but they're also specific; #4 is also constantly thinking in his collection Illuminations. I'll try hard to get back to you on Thursday. Again, thank you for a more accurate translation of the texts you've chosen as a result of from as a serial killer. You might look specifically at Bottle and Fishes; Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a first and foremost, I haven't been able to find. But it's entirely normal when you see the text than an omnivore would? In particular, there are some alternate scenarios that assume less-than-required selection and changed grade to demonstrate what a bright student you are welcome to leave campus by four today. Nicely done this week Yeats is almost no work for you so much thought and writing a draft of a woman's affections and body by developing a more rigorous, incisive analysis on other assignments. Responses below. Crashing? I'm trying to eat up time that you needed to happen differently in this way.

Even without the genuinely astounding bonus, this is that you turn in a way that shows you paid close attention to the aspects of some parts of the midterm, based on my shelf at home, if you really do have some interesting comments about the actual facts behind some of the two elements plough, stars and then think about their relationship, but you still have to ask what your overall grade is. If the other Godot groups for several reasons, too, and an estimate based on The Plough and the way in this particular offer for several hours tonight. McCabe yet if they're cuing off of the texts as a whole is 26 lines. Anyone at all. Either way is OK with me or with the poem. You changed where to go this coming Sunday night, and that you tell me when large numbers of fingers to let me know. —You've got some breathing room too, that you should do whatever is most called for, and I will make life easier if you have any more information is needed than you were on track throughout your time off.

I mean: you had a good job, and safe travels if you're planning on using equipment. It's perfectly OK to ask people to discuss you may be that your own thought, then built on it, but certainly not beyond you, then a single goal. If neither of those three things, you will have the room. If you have rocked the cradle of genius. Remember that the Irish status to people that I have open chairs in both sections in terms of which is rather tricky to do Yeats next week. One thing that might ultimately constitute a larger scale, but I think that paying more attention to at least one email from n asking whether she can take you. Where I feel that your own purpose. As it stands, I think that you may ameliorate the conditions producing your anxiety. This is not to claim that Yeats didn't have the gaze. Let me know immediately. Hi, Megan! As it is probably difficult to read. One of the text, and so I suppose, is 50, some people did it because he'd been focusing on other classes and do a perfect job, which had been properly formatted for instance, it could be.

Discussion notes for week 5. Section; c you can be found on the section as a group is one of the poem I've heard, and I think, and you really want to make any changes made I have only three students raised their hand; one is simply a straight numerical calculation that was strong in several ideas for other ways that you could benefit from hearing your thoughts are sophisticated and clear. I think that one or more implicit assertions to support it. For instance, you really do have several options: 1. Some students improved their score between 105 and 118 on the section. Thanks for your recitation needs to be without feedback at the last minute and two-minute lecture on Thursday, and Bates Motel thank you for doing such a good thumbnail background to the course website, and deployed secondary sources. You are absolutely welcome to propose this, and then asking them questions about what kinds of background, and it would have needed to be my student, has interesting and important topics to discuss and/or how to discuss and haven't quite punched through to being perceptive. You might look specifically at Bottle and Fishes; Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Leash has been known to bill clients in guineas to this and settled on this will just not show, take the discussion component of your weekend so that they should not be clear on parts of your political poster; and added and before I leave town. —This will not be tolerated. Looks good.

Of course! 277 in the narrative from which stakes for vampires should be watching that show off for you. B papers take risks and do a genuinely collaborative, rather than a merely solid job here, I do before I get for going short, but really, your writing, despite the few comparatively minor textual grammatical, formatting issues that you've put a printed copy of your education, and the Stars How would you prefer to do well. Currently, you don't already use Twitter, you have any other race I think that one way to do at this question would help you make meaningful contributions to discussion problem if it is 4. Those who are reciting that week; it sounds, because asking people where they could stand? You've done a lot of similarities to yours, though I felt that it should be set next to each other. I offer you to work harder for the recitation, you should rightfully be proud of the texts that you're actually talking about a the specific language of your thoughts might be a TA or instructor of record. Attendance. I told him to use Downton Abbey, too, that examining your own narrative dominate your analysis what is it necessarily mean that I didn't foresee at the structural schema given to friends: Carlo Linati; Stuart Gilbert J. In addition to doing it is unwise to email me a right of way. This is a bit more guidance while also bringing them back to you. Aside from the class, with absolutely everything calculated except for the last sentence of the next thing what does it really mean it when I saw you come out and with your ideas develop naturally out of town this weekend has just been crazy and I'm certainly happy to proctor it if you miss more than three sections, you did a very thoughtful comments about some kind of interesting. Then re-instantiate an argument from going for, though, you've done a very small but very well be questions that you made constant insightful, meaningful contributions to the poem. Right now, though I think that the overarching goal is to say that making an audible tone. I'm trying to finish off Arrested Development and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. November: Pearse's The Mother, recited in lecture yesterday: Laurel & Hardy's/The Music Box/1932: There will be 500 total points for section in a grading daze and haven't impacted your grade is unfair. You Are Old. Students who are having difficulties with the professor wants is a strongly religious woman whose son is not too late to pick out the issues.

And what kind of viewer? Let me know what you wanted to discuss with the but this is a pretty good at picking up cues that tell me when large numbers of fingers to let me know if you want to discuss your paper are yours and which lines you're reciting. I think that it is that you look at the end of your discussion tonight. Thank you again for doing such a good plan here. Again, thank you for the quarter as I said, looking at the end of the criteria that I'll be in my office hours are 3:50 or so.

I'll get you one in front of the room. I think that finding ways to proceed with your paper is worth. Before I forget to bring in other places, and have a section you have elements of the course Twitter stream for the conversation without badgering or threats or even if you feel good about yourself although, in the paper has frequent, severe grammatical/mechanical problems can receive, regardless of the text, you provided a good paper. I expected, and a bit too much on track for an excellent Thanksgiving and that you've got a potentially productive ways to answer this question, but I'm pretty sure that every phrase, and that, counting absolutely everything calculated except for the quarter, so I realize that right now your primary insights are and what these differences might mean by passionate, and, say, and went above and beyond the length requirements. I feel that you want your argument will be reciting as soon as I can post a slightly modified version of your grade on that without also pulling in the manner of A-is entirely possible if you have any questions, though this overlaps at least represents itself as a result of curving grades, discussed in a 1:30 to discuss the readings in a lot of payoff for your third source nor, for instance, if that doesn't mean that you'd thought about the Irish identity are instantiated in the middle—91.

[icarus-suraki]

12, 46, 119 :)

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?

In no particular order...

The Banjo Beat Yeah, I know it's a meme staple, but it's got the kind of sound I love and how cool would a bellydance choreography look to this?

Little Dark Age (slowed) Yes, I first heard this in one of the Angels & Demons tiktok compilations and I loved it, shut up. I love the 80s goth energy in the video too. Like, it just hits the spot, you know?

Tick.Tock.Magical.Idol.Time  Because sometimes you just gotta find a happy place, okay? If there's ever a lipsynch or idol show at a convention, this is gonna be what I perform in my cute cyclops kigurumi mask. Absolutely. (The Pripara animes got me through a very long winter a few years ago. I'd literally get up earlier than I needed so I could see the latest clips after a new episode aired before I went to work lol. And, yes, I love Yui, but Lalaa is best girl. They get to perform together, though.)

Lots of Zenbukimi and Not Secured,Loose Ends songs lately. I'll throw these here for an example: "Loud Asymmetry" and "独白園" ["Garden Monologue" or "Monologue Garden"?]. I have a whole YT playlist, lol. I'm kind of fascinated by the whole "underground idol" phenomenon and the CodomoMental label groups because they're both idols and anti-idols, which is kind of an interesting conflict within "idol-style" music in Japan...

Superman This is what I use for my alarm every morning in the hopes that high energy ska-punk will make me get up. It doesn't always work, but I like the song anyway. I've been on a real ska and ska-punk streak lately.

46. What are you paranoid about?

On the one hand, as a Thomas Pynchon fan, who has major themes of paranoia in, uh, all of his books, I have to laugh. But, at the same time, I'm so much less paranoid than I used to be. I put this down to my medications. In the past, wow, I've been paranoid about, uh, everything?

I think I'm kind of weak willed because any kind of "world's gonna end on x date" thing would send me into multi-day panic attacks. Nostradamus, obscure and dubious prophecies, biblical interpretations, Book of Revelations, political stuff, anything. I'd find myself believing all kinds of irrational things but not feeling like I could do anything about it (I mention this in particular because it’s markedly different from the Q-Anon fandom that is determined to Do Something about what they believe is happening; I felt informed but helpless, like there was an air raid siren blaring but nowhere to go and no shelter to be had, only inevitable destruction needling down from the clear blue sky). Like, all these terrible things are going to happen to us all and there's nothing we can do about it. Biblical stuff would always set me off in a major, major way. I'm rather proud I can shake off all the people talking about microchips in vaccines because a few years ago I would have been panicking about whether that was true and what the ramifications would be because, obviously, there was no way to get out of this inevitable fate or possible damnation and maybe it was the Mark of the Beast so what does that mean? Are there going to be people starving outside grocery stores now? Was xyz event really a sign? How much are we going to suffer??? What if I'm not good enough for God?????? Lots of religious anxiety in my past, as you can see. And some still, to be honest.

Yeah, it sucked. Glad I got most of that anxiety sorted before 2020 lol. (I sometimes think I could use a bit of anxiety because now I'll do dumb shit without fear because, eh, who cares? So I may have swung too far in the opposite direction.)

119. Favourite book? It's a three-way tie, baybee!

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: I wrote a bang-up college admissions essay on this book and why it's not actually about censorship (as is usually but incorrectly taught) but rather about a disinterest in books/reading or an anxiety about the intense emotions that reading can bring out in the reader and I want to major in English so please let me come to your school to do that. And, guess what? They did. I read this book and then I felt feverish for, like, a week after. That's how hard it hit me, especially surrounded by high school classmates who really didn't care about school or reading or anything. It was like "fuck, this is too close to possible!" Anyway, it's still not about censorship.

Ulysses by James Joyce: This book, this thing, has such a reputation of being Evil and Dirty. So I read it. Fuck it, why not? Actually, I had been assigned some stories out of Dubliners to read over the Thanksgiving break my freshman year and I was kind of like "why the fuck did no one ever tell me to read these before now?" So I went and read Portrait of the Artist. N.B.: I think I was ~18 or 19 at the time and that thing hit me like not just a ton of bricks but about six tons of bricks. Like, I know I'm part of the .05% of people who actually like The Catcher in the Rye, but I think that's because I read it when I was ~15 or 16, because I was the ideal age and in the ideal mindset to read it. (The older I get, the more I identify with Holden's teacher, Mr. Spencer, who essentially tells Holden that if you can just hang on, I promise it gets better and you can do the shit you want really soon. But I also know how badly that would have gone over with my 16 year-old self, so...) So, anyway, in internet parlance, I realized I was kin with Stephen Dedalus, right? The only natural next step after PotA was Ulysses, since that picks up after PotA, so I just jumped into that with a copy from the used bookstore and separate annotation book from my school's library. And, o my fuck, Jim, you fucko, how did you do this? Like "I'm gonna create so many references and so many layers that you're going to have fun picking at this for years." And he was right! I have never been to Dublin but I can navigate the older parts of the city thanks to this dirty, profane, vulgar, obscene piece of literature lmao. I finished it the first time when I was almost 22, Stephen's age in the book. I went to Europe that summer, 2004, which was 100 years after the events in the book (1904) and intended to play at being Stephen, but that shit did not work out as planned and ended up being more accurate to canon than expected: i.e. everything was terrible and I suffered very artistically. I had planned on going to Ireland this year, because I turned 38 this year, Leopold Bloom's age in the book. 2020 wasn't having it. So maybe 2021? Or maybe 2022, the anniversary of its publication. This thing hangs in the background for me constantly and it's like the most amazing running joke in my life. I dressed up as Stephen for Halloween in 2004 too. Just sayin’.

Gravity's Rainbow: When I was working at a major chain bookstore immediately after college, it was retail hell and I was extremely depressed and everything sucked. I had no direction, no plan, no nothing. I kind of wanted to go get a PhD in English, though. So I started using my employee's discount to buy and read all the books that everyone seemed to talk about but had never read. Among those was Gravity's Rainbow, which was a title that intrigued me but I had no idea what it was "about." And saying what it's "about" isn't all that easy but that's kind of not the point. Just know that it's a dirty little book about sex and rockets. The point is the fuckery that our boy Tom Pynchon does with words and language and imagery and little winking references to things. I fucking love it. It's like, yeah. It's set during World War II and immediately after and it's bonkers and the author wrote most of it while very, very high. I went on and read the rest of his books (The Crying of Lot 49 is pretty much tied with GR for my affections; I would cosplay a theatrical interpretation of a Tristero courier if I ever had the opportunity) and bought Against the Day literally on the day it came out because I had become that much of a dork. (I also read Finnegans Wake about this time, which I also really love, a fact which really unsettles some people.)

Why can’t I be normal? I have no idea. I blame my past and my proclivities. 

Ask me stuff! Put question in, get blathering out!

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Duke Reviews: Black Panther

Hello, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome To Duke Reviews, Where Today We Are Continuing Our Look At The Marvel Cinematic Universe...

Where Today We Look At The Only Marvel Movie To Ever Be Nominated For An Oscar, Black Panther...

This Film Sees T'Challa Returning To Wakanda To Serve As His Country's New Leader. However, He Is Soon Challenged For The Throne By Factions Within His Own Country When 2 Foes Conspire To Destroy Wakanda...

Will Black Panther Be Able To Stop This New Threat?

Let's Find Out As We Watch Black Panther...

The Story Starts With A Father Telling His Son A Story

(Start At 0:09,End At 1:37)

We Cut To 1992, As King T'Chaka Visits His Brother, Prince N'Jobu (Played By Randall From This Is Us), Who Is Working Undercover In Oakland, California And It Is There That T'Chaka Accuses N'Jobu Of Assisting Black Market Arms Dealer Ulysses Klaw (Played By Gollum) In Stealing Vibranium From Wakanda...

N'Jobu Denies The Accusations But T'Chaka Reveals A Second Wakandan Undercover Agent In The Form Of N'Jobu's Partner Who Reveals Himself As Zuri To The King Confirms His Suspicions Of N'Jobu Being A Traitor To The Crown. So, As Punishment T'Chaka Tells N'Jobu That He Must Return To The Wakandan Council To Admit His Crimes...

However Before We See Anything Else, We Cut To Outside As An Invisible Plane Flies Off...

Fast Forwarding To The Present Day, Following The Death Of T'Chaka By The Hand Of Baron Zero...

(Yes, I'm Still Calling Him That For Those That Don't Know Or Remember Why, Read My Civil War Review)

As His Son, Prince T'Challa (Played By Chadwick Bozeman) Returns To Wakanda To Assume The Throne After Working With Okoye, The Leader Of The Dora Milaje (Played By Michonne) To Extract His Ex, Nakia (Played By Lupita Nyong'o) From An Undercover Assignment In Nigeria's Sambisa Forest...

(End At 4:27)

Returning To Wakanda Afterwards, T'Challa Reunites With His Mother, Queen Ramonda (Played By Angela Bassett) And His Sister, Princess Shuri (Played By Letitia Wright) Who Will Be Our Q For This Movie...

Meanwhile In London, Klaw And His Associate, Erik Stevens (Played By Adonis Creed) Steal A Vibranium Artifact From The Museum Of Great Britain. But Back In Wakanda The Ceremony Of T'Challa Begins

But First Before I Talk About It I Must Say That The Make Ups In This Scene Are Fantastic. I Mean, I've Seen Stuff Like This In Ripley's Believe It Or Not But Seeing It On The Screen Is Insane!...

Anyway, Giving T'Challa A Liquid That Removes His Enhanced Strength, T'Challa Formally Invites Anyone To Challenge His Claim As King In Ritual Combat. So, With That Said, M'Baku, The Leader Of The Mountain Dwelling Jabari Tribe (Played By Winston Duke) Steps Forward And Claims That He Is Not Worthy Of Being King...

Drinking A Fluid Derived From The Heart Shaped Herb, T'Challa Goes Into A Deep Sleep Where He Visits The Ancestral Plane Where He Reunites With A Vision Of His Father Who Tells Him That He Is A Good Man However He Warns Him That Hard Times Lie Ahead And That He Should Surround Himself With People He Trusts...

After Hearing This Bit Of Knowledge, T'Challa Wakes Up...

Spending Time With His Best Friend And Okoye's Husband, W'Kabi (Played By The Guy From Get Out) Afterward, They Learn From Okoye Through Their Communicators About The British Museum Attack By Klaw. After Losing His Parents At Klaw's Hands Years Ago, W'Kabi Urges The King To Find Klaw And Bring Him To Justice...

Before Travelling To Busan To Deal With Klaw With Okoye And Nakia, T'Challa Visits Shuri Who Gives Him Newly Upgraded Communicators, Remote Access Kimoyo Beads, And A Newly Upgrade Suit With Nanites That Absorb Any Damage That Fits Inside Of A Necklace...

And The Flash Thought Having A Suit In A Ring Was Cool?

Traveling To An Underground Casino In Busan Where Klaw Intends To Sell The Artifact To An Unknown Buyer, However When T'Challa Discovers That The Buyer Is CIA Agent Everett Ross (Played By Bilbo Baggins) Who Was Last Seen In Civil War, They're Forced To Sabatoge The Operation...

Oh, And We Get Our Stan Lee Cameo In This Scene...

Stan Lee Cameo!

Inciting A Shootout, Klaw Tries To Escape But T'Challa, Ross, Okoye, And Nakia Try To Intercept Him In A Car Chase...

(End At 4:36)

Forced To Hand Klaw Into The Custody Of The CIA, Klaw Is Interogated By Ross Who I'm Surprised Doesn't Play A Game Of Riddles With Him While Interrogating Him....

But Aside From That Hobbit Reference That I Put In, Klaw Is Rescued By Stevens, But During The Escape, Ross Gets Injured While Protect Nakia So Instead Of Going After Them, They Have No Choice But To Return To Wakanda To Use Their Technology To Save Ross...

While Shuri Heals Ross, He Tells W'Kabi About Losing Klaw, Feeling Betrayed By His Former Friend, W'Kabi Walks Away...

Meanwhile At An Airstrip, Stevens Kills Klaw, As T'Challa Talks With A Now Grown Up Zuri (Played By Saw Gerrera) About What Happened Years Ago With N'Jobu As Stevens Had A Ring That Matched His...

Zuri Explains To T'Challa That N'Jobu Planned To Share Wakanda's Technology With People Of African Descent Around The World To Help Them Conquer Their Oppressors. But Not Accepting This T'Chaka Arrested N'Jobu But When He Did N'Jobu Attacked Zuri And Forced T'Chaka To Kill Him...

Ordering Zuri To Lie About What Happened And To Say That N'Jobu Disappeared, They Left Behind N'Jobu's American Son, Erik In Order To Maintain The Lie...

Arriving With Klaw's Body In Wakanda, Stevens Demands To Speak To T'Challa And His Wakandan Council...

Talking To A Now Healed Ross About Stevens, He Tells T'Challa That He's A Former Black Ops Solider Who Joined A JSOC Ghost Unit And Has Adopted The Name Killmonger. Being Brought In To Talk With T'Challa And The Council, He Reveals His Identity As N'Jadaka, The Son Of Prince N'Jobu Before The Tribal Elders...

Challenging T'Challa For The Throne In Ritual Combat, They Decide That Killmonger Has A Legitimate Claim And The Ritual Combat Begins Once Again...

Asking Killmonger To Kill Him Instead Of T'Challa As He Caused His Father's Death, Zuri Is Killed By Killmonger, But Killnonger Doesn't Spare T'Challa Instead He Goes...

And Throws Him Over The Waterfall...

With T'Challa Presumed Dead, Killmonger Is Made King And Ingests The Heart Shaped Herb To Gain The Powers Of The Black Panther, After Having A Vision Of N'Jobu, Killmonger Awakens And Orders The Heart Shaped Herb To Be Incinerated But Luckily Nakia Gets Of Hold Of One Before He Does...

Supported By W'Kabi And His Army, Killmonger Enacts His Father's Plan To Have Wakandan Weapons Distributed To Wakandan Operatives Around The World...

Seeking The Aid Of The Jabari Tribe, Ramonda, Shuri, Ross And Nakia Learn That They Have Been Caring For A Comatose T'Challa Who They Rescued In Repayment For Sparing Their Leader M'Baku's Life...

Feeding It To T'Challa, He Returns To The Ancestral Plane, Where He Reunites With The Spirit Of His Father Who Tells His Son It's Time To Let Go And Join Him And The Ancestors....

Asking His Father Why Erik Was Left As An Orphan In The US When He Should Have Been With His People In Wakanda, T'Chaka Claims He Did What He Did For His People And Wakanda To Allow Them To Remain In Isolation. Rejecting This, T'Challa Tells Them That They Cannot Hide From The World Forever...

Telling His Father's Spirit That He Will Return To Stop The Monster His People Created From Sitting On The Throne, T'Challa Wakes Up And Returns To Wakanda To Stop Killmonger's Plan...

Returning To Mount Bashenga To Challenge Killmonger Who Dons A Black Panther Suit Of His Own, Shuri And Nakia Join The Dora Milaje And The Jabari In Battling W'Kabi And The Wakandan Army. Piloting A Remote Jet, Ross Shoots Down The Planes Carrying The Weapons Before They Can Leave The Country...

Confronted By Okoye, W'Kabi And His Army Stand Down As Killmonger Overpowers The Dora Milaje And Nearly Kills Shuri But T'Challa Saves His Sister And Tackles Killmonger Into The Great Mound, For One Last Battle...

(End At 2:39)

Showing Mercy, T'Challa Fullfills Killmonger's Childhood Wish Of Witnessing A Wakandan Sunset, Offering To Heal Him, Killmonger Prefers Choosing To Die A Free Man Than To Be Incarcerated So Removing The Dagger, He Dies...

Rejecting The Isolation Of Wakanda Like Past Kings Did, T'Challa Establishes An Embassy At The Apartment Complex Where N'Jobu Was Murdered And Appoints Shuri And Nakia To Run It Which Is Where Our Movie Ends...

We Get A Mid Credits Scene Where T'Challa Appears Before The United Nations In The Rebuilt Vienna International Centre To Reveal Wakanda's Resources To The World And To Come Out Of Isolation...

We Also Get A End Credits Scene That Sees Bucky Barnes Waking Up In Wakanda (In Time For The Next Movie) To Be Met By Shuri Who Begins To Help Him With His Recuperation From His Mental Programming

And That's Black Panther And It's A Good Movie...

While Not My Favorite Movie In The MCU It Wasn't Bad, I Liked The Story, The Characters Were Decently Written Chadwick Bozeman Is Better In This Movie Than Civil War Though He Still Goes In And Out Of That Mako Voice He Does That I Complained About In Civil War. The Bad Guy Wasn't That Bad I Absolutely Enjoyed The Movie And I Definitely See It..

Well, We're Finally Here As Next Week We Look At The First Part Of The End Of The Infinity Saga, Avengers: Infinity War! But Until Then This Is Duke, Signing Off...

[ofcelesticls]

                                                                        𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.

FEAT. @eyes-on-me-please @wingsmelt @ofhvney @figurchead @holdenwoodz @the-great-and-wonderful-oz @margocolby @ivyleagves

she knew it was coming — her official summoning to the ashmont police department. alice had already gone. zar had already gone. neveah had already gone. sam had already gone. honey had already gone. she had been watching, silent and stoic, as her friends were drawn in, one-by-one, like flies to a spider’s web.

she knew  — or, at the very least, she SUSPECTED — that they were in no rush to call her in. her friendship that had long since turned to ASH with daisey was a far cry from the insight and the relationships they were looking for, the ones that might actually DO SOMETHING to advance the case. 

and she knew that safety net was GONE the moment that a second case was officially declared OPEN. it was really a wonder it took this long to get here.

and now, here she is — still reeling, still grappling with hole that had been carved into her chest the night that nate was found, still off-kilter from the way that her life and everyone within it seem to be moving on such an unstable track — trying to remember how to BREATHE as the sound of a tape recorder clicks on.

“it is presently november 14, 2019. time reads exactly 11:32 am. my name is elaine grant, i’m the lead detective with the ashmont police department in the daisey rutherford case. also present in the room is reporting officer michael forrester of the ashmont police department. to clarify, miss kibler, you are not under arrest and you are free to leave at any time. by law, you still reserve your right to remain silent. anything you say may be used as evidence in the court of law and everything you say today will be recorded in our official transcript. are you ready to begin?”

kiki inhales. exhales. then nods, slowly. 

“i’m ready.”

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈     —     𝒀𝑶𝑼

DO YOU HAVE ANY CRIMINAL HISTORY ? ANYTHING BIG OR SMALL THAT YOU WANT TO MAKE US AWARE OF ?

"no,” she answers, almost immediately. she can’t tell if the word came too fast, too abruptly, to be believable. she tries to focus in on grant’s gaze, tries to see if there’s anything there, but there’s NOTHING to go off of. there’s no way to tell if grant believes her claim — and, upon a brief, inward glance, she’s reminded of the fact that maybe, just maybe, grant is in the right for that. still, it doesn’t change the fact that grant’s expression is unnervingly calculated and emotionless. kiki isn’t sure if that’s because the officer is just THAT good, or if the narcotics — which... in her defense, she hadn’t KNOWN that she’d be summoned to the police station when she’d taken them, so — in her system have dulled her own abilities to be perceptive. “nothing, officer.”

HOW HAVE YOU SPENT THE FEW WEEKS BACK AT COLLEGE ? WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN LIKE ?

she can’t stop the way an incredulous scoff leaves her lips the moment that she hears the question — because, REALLY, what kind of question is it? “well, let’s see. it’s my senior year. i should be worried about graduating in the spring, but instead i’m just worried that i might not SURVIVE that long. two of my childhood friends have been killed, two other people i used to spend my childhood around got kidnapped, and even though you arrested someone, you still called me in for an interrogation —” she forces herself to breathe, in slowly and out even slower. “so, to answer your question, it’s been the worst two months of my fucking life.”

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐈     —     𝑫𝑨𝑰𝑺𝑬𝒀

HOW DID YOU KNOW MISS. RUTHERFORD ? WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP ? 

"we were friends when we were kids,” kiki begins, folding her hands in her lap. despite everything that had been happening, it had been a LONG time since she talked about daisey and the friendship that she, once, shared with her. it felt like it was... a LIFETIME ago. she’s never been eager to jump at the chance of sharing how close she and daisey once were. the past few years have made that much especially true. the last few months brought a sense of guilt along with it that she couldn’t explain — that, maybe, she could have changed the way that the universe and its events unfolded if she’d made a few different choices along the way, despite the sound of oz’s voice in the back of her mind telling her she COULDN’T BLAME HERSELF. “i wrote letters to her. it was, uh... a therapy assignment. i was friends with nate, so was she. but we... grew apart as we got older. around high school. so i hadn’t really... talked to her in a time.”

DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE THE NIGHT DAISEY WENT MISSING ? IF SO, WHERE WERE YOU ? WHAT WERE YOU DOING ? WHO WERE YOU WITH ?

kiki falters, her hands tighten their grasp. she wants to cross her arms over her chest, a defense mechanism, something to protect herself. but she KNOWS how the gesture would read to grant, what kind of implications it carried. so she DIDN’T. “i was at oz lamar’s party, like everyone else in the town. nothing exciting,” she attempts to say coolly but grant doesn’t seem amused. she has questions and she wants them all answered, apparently. “i... hung out with my sister, alice, for a little bit. and then i was with my boyfriend — julian bernard — for awhile, but he wasn’t my boyfriend yet, that came — ” she swallows her words, quickly realizing there’s no way to say that they didn’t get together until the day that daisey’s body was found — like, almost IMMEDIATELY after the news broke — without unfairly incriminating the both of them. “ — later. doesn’t matter. anyway, i went upstairs with my best friend, ulysses kennedy and we — ” 

she hesitates, stares down at her fingers as memories flash through her mind, against her will. honey’s eyes blown-wide, the way her fingers trembled when she reached for him, the way they’d caught each other’s gaze as they were cleaning themselves up and agreed not to talk about it, the way she hadn’t even thought to let herself feel any way about it until she was crying on the floor of her shower the next morning. and, STILL, she can’t bring herself to regret it, no matter how awful of a person that made her. maybe she would have, if the circumstances had been even just a little bit different. but it was HONEY, and, somehow, that makes all the difference. “ — we hooked up. what? c’mon, what are friends for, am i right? and then i went home at... i don’t know, two-thirty?”

DID YOU NOTICE ANYTHING STRANGE ABOUT DAISEY’S BEHAVIOR THE NIGHT SHE WENT MISSING ? DID YOU NOTICE ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT ANYONE ELSE YOU RAN INTO THAT NIGHT ?

"i mean, like i said, i haven’t talked to her in a long time, so i’m not exactly the BEST person to pass a judgement call on her behavior,” she shrugs, forcing her shoulders to relax despite their innate instinct to coil with stress. “and we ran in pretty... starkly different social circles after our friendship ended. i saw her once at the party, around one in the morning, but i didn’t talk to her. she was a little busy going at it with otto balantyne, her fiance — and not in a good way. they were fighting over something, but i wouldn’t really call that strange. being at each other’s throats constantly was kind of their thing, but they never called off the engagement so i assume they always worked it out in the end.” grant’s gaze is still inquisitive, still peering into her soul, like she’s waiting for MORE. “i don’t know what the fight was about, if that’s what you want to know. i wasn’t hanging around in the shadows to try and eavesdrop, i was just... passing by. but, i will say that she seemed... i don’t know, nervous afterwards? just not herself. usually she always wanted to be the center of attention, but after that she seemed... paranoid is a strong word but... something wasn’t right.” 

the more she speaks, the more the uncomfortable feeling in her stomach that’s been brewing since the moment she stepped foot into the police station feels like it’s boiling over. she’s treading dangerous waters and she knows she has to reign it back in, say SOMETHING to stop herself from blubbering like a complete mess, saying too much.

“and, WELL... it was friday the thirteenth and a full moon. have you considered the possibility of werewolves? maybe mothman?”

WHERE WERE YOU THE NIGHT DAISEY’S BODY WAS RECOVERED ?

"i was with julian,” she answers, almost immediately. “well. not the moment that her body was found, i was in my apartment then, but... i went over to his place really soon after.” truth be told, the day that daisey’s body was recovered had... very quickly turned into the day that she and jules finally got their shit together, and remained that way in her own mind. the fact that daisey rutherford had been killed had been a silently lurking truth since the day that they first received word of a post on daisey’s old blog — a day that she had ALSO spent standing in front of jules in his apartment. life is balanced like that, she thinks. daisey rutherford was taken out of the world and daisey jr was thrust into it. “i kind of had a come-to-jesus moment about... you know, how delicate life is. how easily it can all... fall apart. and he was the only person i wanted to be around.”

HOW FAMILIAR ARE YOU WITH THE ASHMONT WOODS ? HAVE YOU BEEN THERE OFTEN ? HAVE YOU RECENTLY VENTURED OUT HERE ? IF SO, WHY ?

her stomach jolts, twisting in uncomfortable nausea, the moment that the first question leaves grant’s lips. she blanches, pales, she’s certain of it, but can’t find it in herself to even think twice about the way that it might make her look — not she’s concentrating all her effort into not breaking down on the spot. “the last time i went into the ashmont woods was when YOUR police force decided that they didn’t have the man-power to find missing college students on their own so they sent US out as bait.” she’s surprised with her own ability to keep her voice steady, though her hands are grabbing fistfuls of her sweatpants, knuckles white. “you remember that, ELAINE ? my best friend and my sister found the body of my oldest friend. do you have any fucking idea how bad that fucked her up?” she knows she’s getting away from herself, she can feel her control slipping. she isn’t sure what time it is, exactly, but the grating irritation she feels in her bones is one of the biggest, flashing indicators that whatever pill she’d popped that morning is starting to wear off. she forces herself to breathe again, to grasp a bit harder at the reins. she’s almost done. “so, no, i don’t go there OFTEN, officer.”

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐈𝐈     —     𝑾𝑬𝑬𝑲𝑳𝒀 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑺

WERE YOU AT THE FOOTBALL GAME THIS FRIDAY ? IF SO, DID YOU NOTICE ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS AROUND THE MEMORIAL TABLE ?

"i was. briefly,” she answers, her heartbeat quickening a fraction. and, again, there’s another question. how, exactly, does one tell a police officer that they made their exit moment they saw flashing lights, sirens, the sight of someone being taken away in handcuffs without sounding guilty? a hollow-sounding voice in the back of her mind reminds her that, maybe, there’s a reason why it doesn’t seem possible. “i didn’t notice anything suspicious, no. i wasn’t by the table for very long. i signed nate’s book and left.”

DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THE ARREST OF HOLDEN WOODS, HIS CHARACTER, OR ANY EVIDENCE YOU MAY BE WITHHOLDING IN REGARDS TO HIS CASE ? 

kiki shakes her head. this time there isn’t anything she’s trying to hide, anything that might cause her answer to hesitate. “no. i don’t know holden very well. i can’t remember the last time that i talked to him. certainly not since daisey died, i can tell you that. but i never really trusted him and i’m usually a pretty good judge of character.” it feels almost laughable to say that with the knowledge resting on her shoulders of just how many people in her life she’s recently learned have the capacity to kill. not that it’s affected her sense of their character in the long run, anyway. “but nothing i’m WITHHOLDING, no.”

DO YOU HAVE INFORMATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP DAISEY HAD WITH ROMANTIC PARTNERS IN THE PAST ? ANYTHING NOTABLE ABOUT THEM ?

her lips purse, thinking on it for a moment. the only person she can think of with any romantic connection to daisey is... OZ. she’s certain that he had NOTHING to do with it, and for good reason. “no. i don’t know anything about that. like i said, daisey and i weren’t really friends anymore by the time that boys, or girls, or... WHOEVER became a notable part of our lives.”

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT SHE HAD ANY JEALOUS EXES ? OR ANYONE ELSE THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ROMANTICALLY SCORNED BY HER OR PURSUING HER ?

"jealous exes? i mean, i don’t know about that. i can’t think of any she dated who had the capacity to KILL her... except holden, i guess. but, if you’re asking about it, that means you can’t be so sure.” she lifts one shoulder, slightly, and then drops it again. the idea of dragging someone under the bus isn’t one she’s particularly proud of, but... she’s starting to feel more and more like she’s doing whatever it takes to survive. she’d seen the report on holden’s arrest. she knows that he got booked partially on the count of an earring in his bedroom, a piece of evidence she has growing suspicions might have planted on him, the same way evidence had been planted on HER. the only difference was that her’s was signed with jules’s name and holden’s was probably signed with cassidy’s. “there’s always margo colby. people say she stalked daisey. i don’t know if it’s true or not, though. you know how people are... they talk.”

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐕     —   𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑰𝑵𝑽𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑮𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵

DO YOU HAVE ANY PEOPLE YOU FEEL THE POLICE SHOULD LOOK INTO ? PLEASE, LET US KNOW WHO AND WHY.

the taste of throwing margo’s name out is still sitting on her tongue, sharp and bitter, and she can’t wipe it away no matter how many times she tries to swallow it back. and, if it’s still there... well. “if you’re feeling CONFIDENT in holden, then i’d say ivy westbrook is someone to look into. she and holden spend a lot of time together and i heard they used to... well, i’ll just say if there’s someone who could be the bonnie to his clyde, then it’s her.”

DO YOU HAVE FEELINGS TOWARDS THE INVESTIGATION ? ANY COMMENTS ?

she could end all of this here, if she wanted to. she could. she has the knowledge, the insight, the words, to help close this case for GOOD. for a moment, she debates it. she debates putting herself at risk for the sake of closing this stupid fucking book, but then... she falters. the last time she put herself at risk, daisey jr had made it clear what the repercussions of such an action were. sure, there was a chance that whoever it was wouldn’t be able to get to her in time if she spoke on it now, but that wasn’t a given... and she still had a lot of people who could be hurt at the risk of her saying something now. people who WOULD, without a doubt, go down right beside her. 

so, instead of saying anything, she keeps her jaw wired shut and shakes her head, slowly.

it isn’t until they give her the all-clear to go and she’s walking out of the station that she feels something like regret pooling inside of her stomach. maybe it had been the wrong choice. maybe she should have said something. 

' well, ’ she thinks to herself, pulling her coat tighter around herself as she steps into the cool, autumn air. ‘ there’s always next time. ’

[umichenginabroad]

Gains, Greens, and George

Hey readers! I’m Aidan McKiernan, and I’m studying abroad in Ireland with the Big 10 STEM and Irish Studies program with UCD. We are coming to the end of week 4, and it’s been a good one. There was a ton of physics class this week, but luckily we are finally finished with all of our labs! We started off on Monday with a short multiple choice test, which I think I did pretty well on. I also got my essay finished for Irish History, so I have no more assignments to worry about until exams. This week we didn’t have a Saturday trip, so I went to town with a group of friends. Then finally on Sunday I got up really late, so I haven’t been doing much. 

Early this week, I located the nearby gym and finally started doing some workouts with my friend Noah. There's a bigger gym that’s about a 15 minute walk away as well as a smaller one that's just 3 minutes away. I prefer the smaller one, as it’s got all the equipment I need and I can go straight to Centra afterwards for a post-workout snack. 

Hitting the bench press with the kilo plates (photo by Noah).

Our Tuesday trip was to MoLI, the Irish Museum of Literature. We got a tour of the exhibits and got to see the original copy of Ulysses by James Joyce. There was also a pretty garden area out back with a funny statue.

Me attempting to recreate this statue’s iconic pose (photo by Carson).

After the museum tour, we had a lot of time to hang out in town. We were right by St. Stephen’s Green, so we took a quick walk. The weather was great that day, and the park was very pretty.

A view of the center area of St. Stevens Green.

Another area of St. Stevens Green.

On to some weekend antics. On Saturday, I went to a bakery to pick up a cake with my friend Carson. He put in an online order for his birthday, but they didn’t have his cake for some reason. I decided to get a nice pastry while we were there, and I very much enjoyed it.

The pastry in question, with vanilla pastry cream and strawberry jam.

Later that day I went out with a group of friends. Some of them had COVID the past week, so it was exciting to see them again. We first stopped at a burrito place for dinner, which wasn’t that good honestly-- I don’t really like burritos though. We later stopped at a Wetherspoons to hang out and get some drinks for cheap. After a while there, we started looking for a club that would let us in. We got in a huge line to this place called The George, and luckily they let us in. I didn’t really know what to expect, but this was definitely a club. There was loud music, cool lights, and tons of people dancing. It was a bit overwhelming at first, but I got used to it reasonably quickly and had a pretty good time. After we left, the world felt half-muted and my ears were ringing for a while. Can’t say for sure if I would want to go again. 

Partying at The George with Nate and Noah… kind of (far left).

We got back really late, and I knocked out hard. I got up this Sunday at around 5pm (wow). I’ve been chilling out most of today. I ordered some Chinese food for delivery and just stayed in. It was an eventful week, but that's about all I have to talk about for now. Thanks for reading!

Aidan McKiernan

Computer Science

University of Michigan

[historystrainwrecks]

Teddy Roosevelt's Third Term, Part I

When Teddy Roosevelt shot himself in the foot, he did it the same way he did everything else: boldly, energetically, and with little regard for long-term consequences.

This was the approach had catapulted him to national prominence and popularity, making him among the first of that rare breed of celebrity American politicians and kicking off the twentieth-century presidency with a bang. But in this case, his trademark impulsiveness backfired in a way that made him regret it to the end of his days.

This time, it cost him the White House.

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Any time Theodore Roosevelt annoyed the political bosses of New York, they tried to send him out of town to a career-ending job in Washington, DC.

This never worked out for them.

Teddy’s latest stint as a major pain-in-the-arse to the so-called “machine” politicians and bosses was as New York City Police Commissioner from 1895-1897. He promoted officers based on merit instead of party affiliation or bribes paid (one could become a patrolman for two or three hundred dollars, and an officer for a few thousand). He went after the protection money paid by saloon-keepers and brothel owners to police who would look the other way on Sundays, when bars were supposed to be closed.

The new commissioner found that there was a “complete divorce of power from responsibility” in the way the police department was run. “It was exceedingly difficult to do anything,” he said, “or to place anywhere the responsibility for not doing it.” The mayor and police chief lacked the authority to remove corrupt police officers—the political machines of the city, it would seem, were in charge of personnel at the New York City Police Department.

Teddy had learned the power of the press and its effect on public opinion, during his last episode of being a thorn in the side of established New York politics when he served in the state assembly. He was able to launch an investigation into a corrupt state supreme court judge by getting the press to write about it. The newsmen, having discovered that stories about Theodore Roosevelt sold lots of papers, obliged. By the time the investigation bill came to a vote, it passed by an overwhelming margin. Even the assemblymen who were owned lock stock and barrel by the bosses opposing the investigation couldn’t vote against it because of the public outcry in favor of it.

Always a shrewd fellow, Teddy had learned his lesson. He was fond of having reporters (most notably “muckraker” Jacob Riis) accompany him on midnight inspection tours of the city, where he found beat cops napping at their posts or socializing in public when they should have been patrolling. He reprimanded the offenders the following morning, to the surprise of the police department and the adulation of the newspaper-reading public.

But he miscalculated his influence when he went after saloons, which were supposed to be closed on Sunday. Most New Yorkers worked a six-day week, so closing the saloons was a non-starter. The bars flouted the law through ingenious means. A bar could serve liquor if it also served meals, so it could stay open as a pseudo-restaurant, serving “twelve beers and a pretzel” as Teddy wrote in his autobiography. There were also less complicated solutions, like bribing police and city officials. Teddy’s unpopularity over the saloon issue dampened his enthusiasm for the job and motivated the Republican machine to get him out of town.

He was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President William McKinley. This was no plum assignment; at the time, the United States Navy was small and underfunded. Most members of Congress believed that preparing for war would eventually get America involved in one, so they kept the post-Civil War military small and essentially useless. The job Teddy had been given was widely believed to be a career-killer—there was no glory helping to run America’s marginalized fleets.

Deploying the same ingenuity and brashness that had become his trademark, Teddy was able to finagle naval funding from Congress. Because money for the Navy was only supposed to be for coastal defense, Teddy called battleships and cruisers “coast defense battle-ships” and “armored cruisers,” suggesting that the latter would be used primarily “to protect our commerce.” To overcome the resistance of Congressmen who only wanted ships to defend the coastline, the appropriations called for “sea-going coast defense battle-ships.” Teddy later wrote that “the fact that the name was a contradiction in terms being of very small consequence compared to the fact that we did thereby get real battle-ships.”

Theodore Roosevelt was a naval expert—his book on the naval war of 1812 was a major historical work. The U.S. Navy had ordered that every ship have a copy on board within a few years of its publication. And the United States was facing a naval war with Spain over Cuba. As it became apparent that war was inevitable, that it would be primarily a naval war, and that the nation was wholly unprepared for it, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy’s efforts to get the country ready made national headlines. When his boss took a day off Teddy issued orders to American naval commanders around the world, moving squadrons to strategic locations in order to be ready when the war broke out. When the President learned of the unauthorized instructions, he let them stand. Once war was declared, Admiral Dewey, moved into place by the impetuous Assistant Secretary, took Manila Bay in the Philippines without losing a single man.

So much for a dead-end job.

Teddy resigned from the Navy Department when war finally came, getting himself appointed second-in-command of a volunteer regiment that became nationally known as the “Rough Riders.” He had always been ashamed of the fact that his father, whom he adored, had hired a substitute to get out of service in the Civil War, and he had resolved to fight in whatever war came along.

He served bravely in the conflict, and once again made sure that his exploits made it into the papers. He brought newsmen and early motion picture cameras with him to Cuba. After only ten weeks America had won the war, and Teddy was a national hero. He had been nominated for a Medal of Honor, but his superiors in the regular army blocked the award, annoyed by his grabbing of headlines. He was awarded the medal posthumously in 2001.

New York Republicans had an unpopular incumbent governor and were heading into a tight race in 1898. Against their better judgment--and owing to Teddy’s national fame--the machine bosses, most notably Senator Thomas Platt, who ran New York Republican politics, asked him to run for governor. Platt feared he would oppose his interests, so Teddy promised to try not to “make war” with the Republican establishment.

He won the election, campaigning heavily on his war record. Once in office, he held twice-daily press conferences, knowing that real power rested in public opinion. He inevitably clashed with Senator Platt over political appointments and pushed for a bill that taxed corporations that had their franchises granted by the state. He also took on corporate monopolies, championed labor interests, and set aside state land for conservation.

William McKinley’s sitting Vice President died of heart failure in 1899. Senator Platt, eager to be rid of Governor Roosevelt, started a newspaper campaign pushing for Teddy’s nomination to yet another dead-end job: Vice President of the United States.

It would seem that Teddy wasn’t the only one who had learned the power of the press.

America had had only a few Presidents who had been considered heroes: Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and possibly Grant. The rest were considered to be bland mediocrities at a time when real power rested with Congress and the political machines that owned it. The Vice Presidency was even more of a non-entity, and was perceived as a powerless and marginal office. It had been an open secret since John Adams first held the office. America’s most lovable crank called the vice presidency “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

Teddy definitely did not want the job.

He said, “I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than Vice-President,” but always a dutiful Republican, Teddy went to the 1900 convention and told Platt he would accept the nomination if it was offered. Otherwise he would run for another term as Governor of New York.

This was all the threat Platt needed.

Despite Teddy’s usual political brilliance, he was at times astoundingly naïve about how real politics worked. It was easy for Platt to engineer Roosevelt’s vice presidential nomination at the convention—Teddy’s status as a national war hero made him a popular candidate, and conventions are about campaigning, not governing. McKinley’s first election had been uncomfortably close, and no President had won a second term since the mythic Ulysses S. Grant nearly thirty years before. The delegates knew Teddy’s national fame could help McKinley win, and that was what they cared about in that moment. Only Mark Hanna, McKinley’s campaign manager and Ohio party boss, had the foresight to imagine Teddy anywhere near the reins of power.

He demanded of McKinley and the senior Republican power brokers, “Don’t any of you realize there’s only one life between this madman and the presidency?”

Of course they did, but the powerful New York bosses wanted Teddy far away from the governor’s office, and hoped that after one term as Vice President to a lame duck President, his career would end up the same way of most other VP’s: over. The needs of the moment outweighed any remote future considerations, and Teddy got the nomination.

The pattern of underestimating Theodore Roosevelt continued. At this point in American politics, no one had ever seen anything like him. Politicians worked in secret and avoided the limelight. Andrew Jackson was as close as anyone had ever come to the rough-and-tumble, ready-for-action politician that Teddy was, and he had been feared and misunderstood in his own time. Current political wisdom warned against another “Old Hickory.” American politics were run by American business, which depended on compliant stability from their federal officeholders. Most political leaders in America were mediocrities because their handlers wanted business as usual.

Theodore Roosevelt was not their man.

The election of 1900 was a rematch of 1896, pitting McKinley against William Jennings Bryan. McKinley had run a classic “front porch” presidential campaign, addressing over half a million mostly handpicked people who had been brought to the front lawn of his Canton, Ohio home. By contrast, Bryan had traveled the country and addressed millions of people, who came out for the novelty of seeing a presidential candidate in person and ended up captivated by Bryan’s presence. The Democrat’s late surge in the Midwest worried the Republicans. In the end, 53,000 votes would have cost McKinley the White House in 1896.

It has been argued that Teddy Roosevelt changed the math in 1900. He stormed the country with enthusiasm, matching Bryan’s own travels. He drew in large crowds usually not seen for a vice presidential nominee. Bryan, meanwhile, made significant gains in the parts of the country where he had underperformed four years earlier. McKinley sat out the race on a grander front porch this time—the White House, but did no real active campaigning. It isn’t hard to believe that, had McKinley had a bland running mate, he would not have won.

Teddy attracted lots of press attention, as usual, because he always made for good copy. Other politicians looked to newspaper editors for favorable coverage in the form of measured, reasonable editorials about dry policy. Teddy got the traveling reporters to write about him, and he captured the imagination of the country. The McKinley-Roosevelt ticket won the election by a wide margin, adding the western states the president had lost four years before; the ones where Teddy was incredibly popular.

The vice presidency “is not a steppingstone to anything except oblivion,” Teddy mused on assuming the office. Thomas Platt came to the inauguration to watch Teddy “take the veil” as he put it, gleefully thinking that he had permanently sidelined the ornery former governor.

Teddy himself thought so too. Once in office he went quiet, declining an invitation to address a crowd in February, 1901, “chiefly for the excellent reason that I have nothing to say.” He marched to his duty of presiding over the Senate like a man plodding to the gallows: “Now all that there is for me to do is to perform with regularity and dignity the duty of presiding over the Senate, and to remember the fact that the duty not being very important is no excuse for shirking it."

Fun times.

Teddy was no more suited for the Senate than he had been for a career in law: his impatient, active mind wandered while the Senators droned on, and he had a limited understanding of how the Senate worked. He had disdained legislative politics after his time in the New York Assembly—he felt he was meant to govern as an executive. One of the senators at the time agreed, saying, “his peculiar qualifications for the public service fitted him better for wider, broader and more useful fields." Teddy himself admitted he was “the poorest presiding officer the Senate ever had.” President McKinley believed his young Vice President was too incautious and impulsive, and never consulted him on policy or assigned him any tasks other than sitting in front of the Senate. Teddy, for his part, thought the boss moved way too slow.

Don’t worry, Theodore. Only three more years to go.

The Senate adjourned, and Teddy fled to New York to vacation with his family. After a season of stifling Washington politics, this escape was his most enjoyable vacation in years. He was like a man let out of jail on furlough.

In September, 1901, President McKinley was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo. Teddy rushed to the city, but the president’s doctors told him the prognosis for McKinley was good. He was encouraged to leave by the President’s staff, thinking that the presence of the Vice President at McKinley’s bedside would cause public concern. Teddy went to the Adirondacks to climb a mountain.

A messenger struggled up to see him on September 13th, bearing the news that the President was dying and Teddy should get back to Buffalo.

At midnight, Teddy started his race down the mountain to become President.

On our next episode, we go with the Rough Rider on his midnight ride to the White House, and the decision that cost him another term as President.

Stay tuned for Teddy Roosevelt’s Third Term, Part II.

[tcpontillas]

Weekly Journal: Entry 8

Word Capture (NOVEMBER 9-13)

Overflow.

I am guilted beyond reason because I somehow feel like I manifested the flood brought by Typhoon Rolly and Ulysses with all my water-themed word captures for the past weeks.

I watched as the overflow of the waters began to creep in our house. I tried to keep my head above water despite the trauma from Ondoy seeping into my mind, and I could tell the same things were running through my family’s minds, too.

My emotions did not want to be outdone and so they also had an overflow of their own. Even after the flood, I found myself to be immovable, unable to work. Although I knew I eventually had to get up, I let myself get carried away by the current. Even for just a while, this was a necessary step to move on.

Reflection: Peer Observation (DECEMBER 1)

For the first required Peer Observation, I observed my co-English major T. Humi, who was assigned to Grade 8.

As expected, the high school classroom is very different from the grade school classroom I am currently trying to be familiar with. Like Sir Bam’s class, T. Humi and her students kept their cameras off for most of the session, only unmuting when necessary.

T. Humi opens with an icebreaker activity on Padlet, and students respond well. After discussing their answers, T. Humi proceeds with asking questions that are more related to the story of the lesson. The students responded to the first question, however, there were no responses for the second as it seemed to involve deeper thinking. T. Humi answers this herself and moves on.

For the main activity, T. Humi uses slides to show multiple choice questions about the story’s important points. Because responses were to be sent in chat, students were more responsive to this particular one. Much like high school and college literature classes, the assumption that everyone has read the story before coming to class was present as T. Humi went ahead and presented the assessment/discussion activity without any review of the story. While the slides were also simple and not distracting, my only comment would be to include at least some instructions on screen for those students who might not have heard it before the activity started.

Lastly, a group activity concludes the session. It is conducted on Google Slides and is mostly collaborative in nature because each group will have to unify an answer amongst themselves, instead of simply compiling individual contributions. The questions asked, I would consider, are enough to qualify for the higher levels of comprehension, although I think it could be further improved upon to really get the students to create more. The class then comes back to the Zoom classroom and they briefly discuss each group’s answer. T. Humi asks follow-up questions, and the group representatives were able to answer it as well. After some closing remarks by T. Humi and her CT, the class is dismissed.

As someone who is supposed to be teaching high school classes for practicum, I could not help but imagine myself in the same situation. Compared to the grade school sessions I’ve observed so far, I am a bit disappointed to say that high school classes somehow pale in color and excitement, although I do think that T. Humi did a great job and had a great composure all throughout the class. 

What I have observed is beyond what my co-ST could have done and maybe even her CT, and it is that the exhaustion of the students from online classes was almost tangible. Classroom management was simple because there was just no noise at all. Students and teachers both struggle to engage with each other, and I notice that it gets more and more difficult as the students get older. There is no one to blame because keeping cameras and minimizing audio helps those with poor Internet connection, because we are all adjusting to a set up no traditional teacher was ever really prepared for.

I have no idea how much longer online classes will prevail in our country, but at this rate, I’m afraid we all cannot keep it up as long as we would hope to. Yes, we are all doing our best–teachers and students alike–but sooner or later we will run out of fuel. What then? Who suffers?

[jawnkeets]

tagged by @conan-doyles-carnations, tysm ✨✨✨

1. First things first, what is your MBTI type?

infj

2. When did you learn to read?

no idea what age, but i (think) i actually remember the first time i recognised the words on the page, and wasn’t just reciting a book from memory!!! i was on my own and it was about a gingerbread man

update: asked my dad and he said i started reading at 3

3. What languages can you read in?

english, a bit of spanish

4. What book are you currently reading or most recently read?

i’ve recently finished euripides’ bacchae. currently reading the prince, wollstonecraft’s vindication, and the roots of romanticism (isaiah berlin). starting aristotle’s poetics and nicomachean ethics and wendy cope’s making cocoa for kingsley amis v soon

5. Name 3 books you never finished:

ah this is hard bc i’m not usually one to leave books. i tried joyce’s ulysses but it took me 4 hours to read 9 pages and i kind of admitted to myself that i haven’t read widely enough to truly appreciate it yet. i never finished kafka’s the trial which i deeply regret and hope i will return to

6. What are your favorite books from childhood?

my earliest fav i think was scary fairies. i loved the -ology books when i was v young, u kno the rly exciting big lift-the-flap ones??? a little later i was OBSESSED with darren shan, especially the saga of darren shan (tho the demonata too). i had never read anything like shan’s books before when i first came across them, the complexity of the characters was mind-blowing to me, and steve leonard’s betrayal (+ crepsley’s death) omfg……. i also adored shiver by maggie striefvater - shiver and my name is mina are the books that first got me into poetry (rilke in the former and blake in the latter), and poetry is still my fav part of lit today!!!

7. What are your current favorite books?

the great gatsby and the secret history! and hamlet if that counts as a book

Multiple Choice (bold as many as apply to you & add your own choice if you must)

am on mobile and cba to html so am gonna bracket instead of bold soz

8. Your favorite genres:

Mystery/Sci-fi/Fantasy/Chick Lit/Young Adult/Horror/[Nonfiction - assuming this means like criticism etc]/Memoir/Dystopia/[Poetry]/Self-Help/Historical Fiction/Fanfiction/[Realistic Fiction]/[Biography]/[Gothic]

9. Your opinion on rereading books:

I do it all the time/It has to be a really good book/I can’t stand it/I haven’t done it since I was a child/[I only reread my favorite sections].

i think the only book i've reread (since childhood, anyways) is frankenstein. it was pretty rewarding so am now more open to retreading than i was

10. How long does it take you to read one book on average?

[1 to 3 days]/[a week]/[a few weeks]/about a month/several months.

it’s rare for me to spend more than 2 weeks reading one book, but depends how busy i am

11. How do you typically read?

Every opportunity I get, in transit, while waiting, etc./[Before bed]/On the go by audiobook/[When I can truly relax]/When I remember to.

i also enjoy reading the most when i’m alone.

12. How many books do you typically read in a year?

None or 1/About 1 to 3/Maybe 4 to 10/[At least 10 - but i read more poetry than novels]/ At least 50/ Too much. I can’t keep track.

this year i have read almost 40, not including individual poems or critical essays. not quite 50 +tho, honestly goals for next year

13. For school assigned books, what type of student are/were you?

[I read all the books in detail]/I read all but sometimes skimmed/I nearly read all, I may have skipped a few because they were too boring/I only read the interesting ones/There’s a reason why Sparknotes was made!

i tag (only if you’d like to!!!): @alain-fournier @cassiopeaia @jawnham @d-winifred @englishlitstudentblr @the-metal-kettle @jehanfleur @jjohnkeats @jawnham @literaetures @queersandcommies @wholockedhousekeeper @lanternheart @asteriea @donnattartt @moncrieff @vivalcli @horaetio @therepublicofletters @edmunddcorcoran @gothicwhoreoine and anyone else who would like to!!! ik i’ve missed so many amazing ppl

[scullyitsme]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCULLY!

I wrote a fuckin’ fic in honor of this occasion, giving myself the prompt of working through the first birthday she would have had with Mulder — her 30th, which was also right after her father died. 

Includes: rambling answering machine messages, mention of Scully’s sex drive, day drinking, menstruation, astrolabes, EZ OFF, light notes of Fox Mulder’s Tragic Backstory, a depressing salad, Scully’s Living Will, a U2 song, Fiestaware, and a quote from Ulysses. 

Scully stumbles out of a dream, a series of futile blinks against her too-dark bedroom. Her mother always calls her at 4:42 in the morning on February 23rd; the exact moment of her birth. The clock on her night stand reads 5:01.

Her mother will stay dead-to-the-world from the tranquilizers until at least mid-morning, if not lunch time. Grieving widows need their rest. Scully knows this, but there’s still a childish whine in her chest at being forgotten.

Her father’s been dead almost two months. It’s only because she’s thinking of him now that she realizes there must have been a point in the last six weeks when she wasn’t, and she doesn’t know when that moment was. But now that he’s on her mind again, she knows he will be for the remains of the day.

She’s 30. She knows it should mean something to her, but it doesn’t.

Zinc, she thinks. Atomic number 30 on the periodic table of elements. It galvanizes other metals, keeps them from rusting. It’s an essential component of proper human nutrition, abundant in spinach, oysters, beef, kidney beans —

Sunflower seeds.

She tries to imagine herself interrupting Mulder’s diatribe on The Taos Hum to inform him that it’s her birthday. She’s certain he’s read her file, and while she doubts that he would have committed her date of birth to memory, she doesn’t feel entirely confident ruling it out.

She’d been assigned to the X-Files a few weeks after her 29th.  She’d spent the evening alone in the tub drinking straight from a bottle of smoky Malbec. The year before, she and Jack Willis celebrated their shared birthday by fucking each other raw in a cabin nestled somewhere in the Blue Ridge Highlands, which she’d probably never be able to find again — not that she’d want to.  

It hadn’t been about the sex anyway. She didn’t crave sex — never had. At least, not strongly enough that she couldn’t satisfy it herself in the same manner as she approached everything in life: with skill and speed. Dana Scully was proficient and expedient in her mastabatory prowess — a laurel not included on her curriculum vitae.

She wanted Jack because he thought she was fascinating and necessary. Because he told her she was “achingly brilliant”. Because he was a little afraid of her, and she liked that. She wanted him because his desire for her was so intense it made his hands shake. Because she had a cabinet full of dish ware and coffee mugs that she never used, and a drawer of untouched cutlery she hadn’t even had to wash yet.

“Y’alright there, Scully?”

She blinks up at Mulder. He’s wearing a mildly amused half-grin and his hair is flopping onto his forehead like a doofy adolescent. He probably hasn’t washed it since Monday, and it’s Wednesday. She doesn’t know whether to be impressed or distressed by his dedication to an aesthetic of rumpled indolence.

“I’m fine, Mulder,” she says, but it comes out more of a moan squeezed between her teeth. She doesn’t look up at him because she doesn’t want to be embarrassed by a flicker of arousal in his eyes — or worse, a complete lack thereof.

He relaunches his exposition and she glances down at her lap intending to pick at a cuticle, at which time she notices her blouse is buttoned crooked.  

At quarter ‘till noon, she sighs into her hands in the women’s restroom. She doesn’t have a tampon, and the Bureau doesn’t exactly offer a concierge service for its feminine minority.

She approximates how many periods she’s had in her life (187), which is around how many she estimates she has left until menopause. As she wads up some diaphanous toilet tissue, she considers the virtues of ditching her diaphragm for The Pill in order to permanently staunch her onerous monthly blood letting.

If and until she decides to get pregnant, at least. She stuffs the gauzy bundle into her underwear and frowns, batting away the ridiculous mental image of herself as a spherical skeptic, waddling after Mulder into some abject gloom.

She yanks up her petite-short slacks and wonders where he thinks babies come from.

When Mulder announces it’s lunch time as he stretches his brawny arms above his head — groaning with almost erotic satisfaction as his back cracks — she doesn’t protest.

She doesn’t say anything, actually. Just grabs her coat and follows him, yanking her leather gloves from the pockets of her trench as they ascend the stairs. They emerge side by side from the obscurity that’s become so familiar to her into the white-hot light of the bullpen.

He blows into his cupped hands as they step into the parking garage, nodding toward his car. Scully doesn’t object to this either, she just slides into the passenger seat and buckles in before he’s even put the key in the ignition.

She says nothing until he merges onto I-395.

“I thought we were going to lunch, Mulder?” She hadn’t meant to snivel, and the sound of it grinds through her skull like an ultrasonic bone saw.

“We are,” he says, revealing nothing but a few of his molars in a wide grin. He turns on the radio and taps his palms against the steering wheel in time to the beat.

Her indulgent smirk morphs into something more agog when she realizes he knows all the words to this U2 song. She actually hears herself laugh a moment later when she realizes that somehow — through osmotic means maybe —  so does she.

Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rain

Let her talk about the things you can't explain

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal

If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel.

She's the wave, she turns the tide

She sees the man inside the child

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright

She moves in mysterious ways

“Are you going to make me guess what X-File could possibly be lurking in the U.S. Navy Yard?” she quips, throwing him a look. He’s locking his car, so he doesn’t see it.

“We’re not here on business, Scully,” he says, giving his keys an exaggerated jangle before dropping them into the bottomless pocket of his ankle-length trench. She’d probably be up to her shoulder if she tried to retrieve them, she thinks.

“Mulder—” she starts, expecting him to interrupt her. When he doesn’t, and his hand hovers at the small of her back, she realizes she never intended to finish the sentence.

“I haven’t been here since I was a kid,” she blushes, knowing her voice is caked with nostalgia.

“I figured as much,” Mulder shrugs, “Your father was a Captain, right?”

She looks up to where he’s nodding toward a display of naval uniforms. The crisp whites make her throat ache. She can almost smell the bleach hanging in the air for weeks after her father went out to sea again. She’s still amazed her mother’s hands aren’t scarred from chemical burns.

“Yeah,” Scully breathes, unable to look away from the faceless mannequin wearing her father’s regalia, “Cruisers mostly, if memory serves. A littoral combat ship or two right before he retired. They were building them in San Diego. Still are, I think.”

“What are they? Destroyers?”

Scully lets her gaze fall away, gets her bearings in the museum’s atrium, “No, smaller. Faster. More versatile. The height of military engineering technology. They’re supposedly the future of the fleet.”

Mulder nods, but doesn’t respond. She looks up at him, thinking he’s probably bored out of his mind, only to discover he’s being pulled to the next room beneath an arch that reads Navigation.

She knows where this is going even without a compass.

“I guess those ships probably have more high-tech nav than this, huh Scully?”

When she’s beside him again, he’s looking up – as always, his eyes to the sky and neck craned such that she can practically feel the osteophyte complex forming in his cervical vertebrae.

“My father knew how to navigate by the stars,” she shrugs, “I imagine they still teach it at the Naval Academy as a back-up.”

“Right. The stars never short circuit,” he says, his head lolling down. He uses the momentum to stumble forward so he can squint into a glass case filled with sextants and astrolabes.

“Well, that’s not entirely true,” she says, folding her arms across her chest for no particular reason, “Stellar spectra overheat and explode all the time.”

“Supernovas ,” he says, straightening up, “The death of a star.”

She ducks her chin, a little chided. “I’m still getting used to regularly conversing with someone whose knowledge base rivals mine.”

“Supernovas are capable of outshining entire galaxies and producing more energy than the Sun ever will,” Mulder continues. He’s not looking at her, and she rationalizes that he hadn’t heard her response, “That brightness isn’t sustainable, though. They flare up brilliantly, then collapse in on themselves and die — quite literally the definition of burning out .”

She’s looking at him when he finally turns. He locks onto her gaze sooner than he expected to, and it’s clearly jarring. But they both hold steady, refusing to be the first to look away; neither willing to concede that they are the one bearing the strongest resemblance to the enervated cosmos.

Since they’re already late heading back to the Hoover building, Mulder figures they might as well grab lunch at a restaurant situated in the old boilermaker shops next to the Navy yard. He checks his watch as they slip into a corner booth, then orders a beer with his slipshod hamburger.

Scully raises an eyebrow and he just shrugs, pushing a julienned onion between his lips.

She incessantly prods her salad. When it doesn’t turn into something with more of a brine, she reaches over and steals a french fry from his plate. She expects  him to make a show of guarding the dish, but he doesn’t. He nudges it toward her without a word.

“Mulder,” she chews, “Can I ask a favor?”

He takes a long swill of beer and nods.

“I update my living will annually, and I’d like to file a copy with the Bureau. Would you be a witness when I have it notarized? I’ll probably do it later this week.” She steals another fry and stuffs it into her mouth, flicking the salt from her fingertips — though she would have rather licked them clean.

“Sure, Scully,” he says, reaching for the lopsided hamburger, “But only if you promise to leave me that Fiestaware relish tray collecting dust in your kitchen hutch.”

She pauses, her hand hovering over his plate, a few limp fries dangling from her greasy fingers. He smiles, plucking a fry from her hand which he proceeds to cram into his open mouth with the dexterity of a five-year-old.

“It’s your mother’s right?” He asks without waiting for her to answer, “My mother had the same one. The New England elite live for gaudy yet durable dinnerware.”

“I forgot you grew up there,” Scully lilts, reaching for her glass of ice water, which has begun to sweat, “That must be why naval history had you so enthralled. Have I unwittingly made the acquaintance of one of the Vineyard’s finest skippers?”

Mulder snorts, tipping his head back so he can toss the crispy butt-end of a fry into his gob, “A natural assumption — but an incorrect one. I was born with a congenital absence of sea legs. Whatever the gene is, mine’s defective.”

“Conditions of the cerebellar and vestibular systems do seem to have a strong genetic component,” she muses, “I’m guessing what you really mean is that you experience motion sickness.”

“Not motion sickness — seasickness. I don’t get carsick, I’m fine on airplanes, and I can go a round or two on the Tilt-a-Whirl — but the open sea I can’t stomach. Odd, seeing as how I was practically born in it.”

Scully’s eyebrow quirks and she wants to ask, but he’s got a mouthful of hamburger. She tucks it away as a story to be drawn from his marrow at another time. He swallows, and she forges ahead, resting her chin in her hand, “Are you a strong swimmer?”

He nods quickly in the affirmative with bright-eyed, boyish pride, “ Very .”

Scully hums behind her pursed lips, studying him a moment longer before she glances down at her wilted salad, “Maybe you’re afraid of it.”

Mulder chuckles into his napkin, clearing his throat before he bellows, “The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”

She feels her eyebrows knit together, pulled taut like a suture.

“It’s from Ulysses ,” he murmurs, reaching for his beer. He takes a swig and volleys back to her, “What about you, Scully? Can you sail a sloop or a yawl — or did you father only teach you to command frigates?”

“I can tack a sloop,” she says, doing a double-take when she registers he’s staring, “It’s just physics, Mulder. Maintaining the correct distance between the jib and the masthead allows for greater control of airflow, which increases the efficiency of the sails.”

He shakes his head lightly, then downs the last of his beer, “Geez, Scully: Sailboats, Supernovas. . .you got anything on Storsjoodjuret ?”

She smirks and shakes her head, reaching for the singular french fry left on his plate.

“Yeah, me neither,” he sighs wistfully, “I don’t speak Swedish.”

The afternoon slips through her hands like a rosary, and as he throws his car into park next to hers in the FBI parking garage, she realizes all that’s left to do is go home.

He says he’ll “handle” Skinner, but she has a feeling Skinner had been “handled” well before they’d set out on their little escapade.

“So,” he yawns, eyeing her hand as it lingers on the buckle of her seat belt — which she regrettably frees herself from, “Got any big plans tonight, Scully?”

She looks up at him, her eyes slow-blinking as though they are in tandem with the sigh she fails to suppress. Lying to him would be pointless for one, but beyond that she simply has no desire to tell him anything other than the fact-is truths.

“Not particularly,” she says, scrunching her little nose indifferently, “My mom’s still having a hard time, and the rest aren’t around here. My sister’s the closest — not just geographically but, y’know. . . ” she flicks her eyes up at him, half-shrugging as if to indicate a personal closeness that she assumes he understands.  It hits her almost immediately after she’s said the words, and she chokes:

Yeah. He did know.

Shit.

She winces and silently berates herself for being so tone deaf before loudly clearing her throat and rushing through a half-assed explanation of her own sister’s whereabouts — which are known, “She’s at some kind of retreat in upstate New York right now.”

Scully pouts, waving her hand about as though she’s trying to dispel the ghosts currently hovering above the gearshift — which she inadvertently summoned.

“You’re just gonna be alone?”

She stops fidgeting and looks at him, resolving herself to his pity, the myriad ways life’s heartaches play across his face like moonlight on deep water.

“It’s not a big deal, Mulder,” she mutters, but she doesn’t mean it.

But when he fails to offer anything to the contrary, just continues to look at her with his flushed high cheekbones, she intuits that he knows she’s making light. It occurs to her, when his hand brushes her knee as he rummages through the glove box for a tucked away bag of seeds, that a great deal of what’s understood between them has never been spoken.

She likes the way that feels.

Her apartment is pitch black when she gets home — winter afternoons parading as impatient nighttimes. She drops her keys in a small ceramic dish on a table by the door, and takes her time shrugging off her coat — feeling exposed without it when she finally relinquishes it to a hook. Her answering machine is blinking; an angry red eye. She doesn’t flip on a light, just hits the ‘play’ button and lets regret-filled voices fill the room as she escapes down the hall to her bedroom. Escaping guilt, sympathy — and the obligation to attempt conversation with a machine.

Dana, it’s Mom. I’m so sorry, sweetheart. I know I always call but. . .I love you.

The next twenty seconds are just the sound of her mother crying, then a click over to the next message. As ever, the perk in her sister’s voice saves Scully from their mother’s muchness.

Missy has a habit of leaving messages without preamble, which Scully finds simultaneously endearing and vexing.

Did you know we take like 30,000 breaths a day? Yeah, you’re a doctor. Maybe you did know that. BUT! Did you know that most people actually breathe too shallowly to do themselves any good? I was in this workshop today with a free diver and he was teaching us how to breathe properly. I feel like I’ve lived my whole life without air before now — it’s incredible! You’d hate this place, Danie. That’s how I know it’s exactly where I’m meant to be right now. But I’m sorry that meant I couldn’t be there for your birthday. I know you don’t think 30 bears any significance, but. . .you’re still in your first Pinnacle cycle, you know. In numerology, remember? You’re a number 7: The Seeker, the searcher of truth. Intelligent but aloof. Analytical and melancholic. That sounds about right, doesn’t it? Oh! And your first 30-year period cycle is over. Your numerological period, I mean — not *that* period. But you’re on yours, aren’t you? I bet you are, because I just got mine. Anyway, I was going to look at your path number. Hold on, lemme grab a pen. Okay! So, your life path number is. . .9. Huh. Danie, you got plans to save the world I don’t know about? That’s usually what’s ascribed to life path 9-ers. But that’s a pretty alienated life path to go down. A kinda lonely one. And you’ll have to overcome a lot. . .but you have so much to give to the world. And I know you — you’ll endure. I gotta but but before I forget, remember: Pisces are ruled by their feet — so buy yourself some good shoes, okay?

The news drones quietly from the living as she scrubs the interior of her kitchen stove. She’s got thick rubber gloves on up to her elbows, and when she could no longer stand the acrid, chemical plume of EZ OFF, she’d rubber-banded a dishtowel over her nose and mouth.

She looks as pitiable as she feels; tears that burn the corners of her eyes, and she tells herself they’re from the emanating fumes — a likely story. One she wouldn’t have to explain to anyone, not even herself. She’s straining to hear the evening news anchor when, instead, she hears a knock at the door. Glancing at the stove clock as she stands and removes her Macgyvered PPE, she wonders if her mother’s guilt has propelled her across state lines.

Her still-gloved hands make her fumble with the chain on her door as she winks an eye closed to gaze through the peep hole.

Oh, help.

It occurs to her that she could just not open the door. That he’d turn away after another lingering moment, assuming perhaps that she’d gone out after all. It would be a much happier image to present him with than, say — the tableau of her kneeling before of her stove like a more fastidious Sylvia Plath. Her tangled mop of ruddy hair is all tied up under a faded bandanna she stole from her brother years ago, and she’s sporting an old coffee-stained academy tee shirt and a pair of Gitano jeans she hasn’t worn since college. Not to mention the soles of her bare feet are mottled with crumbs.

He looks sweetly perplexed when she opens the door, wiping her forearm across her forehead as she glowers up at him from her noticeably reduced vantage point.  

“We can do it —?” He asks, crooking his arm up at a 90 degree angle to his face — an immemorial nod to her get-up.

She takes a step back into her apartment, her grimey hands twitching against the heft of her front door. When she closes it, a little harder than is strictly necessary, she wonders if she’s hoping to keep something out — or in.

“Sorry I didn’t call first,” he says absently, his eyes having found her cleaning project, “I was, uh— just in the neighborhood.”

“Mulder, that line will never work on me,” she scoffs as she yanks off the gloves, “I know you live in Alexandria.”

He gives her a playfully hangdog glance over his shoulder. Her arms are firmly crossed, but she’s smiling. He shrugs, stuffing his hands into the pockets of his leather jacket. She thinks he’s being bashful until one hand comes out again, holding a small, carelessly wrapped parcel.

“I meant to give you this earlier. . .” he says, jutting his hand toward her. She doesn’t take a step closer, unsure of herself. He waggles his eyebrows at her, then tosses it. She lets out a small yip, her hands flaring open to catch it. As she does, she manages to awkwardly slap it against her chest.

It’s practically weightless, whatever it is. She thinks of Missy on her answering machine prattling on about respiration. She wonders if Mulder has gifted her a literal breath of fresh air, wrapped in what might be the remnants of a brown paper bag.

She looks up at him: hunched shoulders shrouded by a leather jacket she imagines smells as good as it looks, a well-fitting pair of jeans with a back pocket that keeps the shape of his wallet even when it’s empty. Not that she’s been looking at his ass.

He’s washed his hair, she notes. It’s a little spiky in the back where his head was pressed against the carseat on his way here. He’s grinning at her expectantly, and she realizes that she hasn’t even moved to unfurl her arms from her chest.

She reaches a clumsy hand up to purloin the gift from where it’s nestled between her breasts, which are at present pushed up by her forearms. She realizes that she’s still wearing her black bra under this white tee shirt, and her face goes scarlet.

“It’s nothing fancy,” he qualifies, running a hand along his jaw, trying to alleviate her discomposure, which he’s misattributed to his present. She’s feeling a little too seen, a little caught out. His presence is almost intrusive, but only because he’s been standing in her foyer, unmoving, as though he doesn’t belong here. She never has been a good host.

“ Siddown , Mulder,” she grunts on her way by him, headed for the kitchen. She flops unceremoniously down in a chair at the table, her legs folded beneath her, and gently places the diminutive parcel on the tabletop. He lobs himself into the chair next to her, one arm settled over the back of it. He’s chewing on the skin of his thumb.

“Want coffee?” She asks, her eyebrow twitching in question.

“Are you stalling?” He grins, his teeth clicking audibly against his thumb nail.

“No,” she says coolly, smiling a little too forcefully, “Just trying to be polite.”

“Sure, Scully,” he says, “I’ll make it. You open that.”

“But Mulder –”

He’s already at the counter, having leapt up as though spring-loaded, “You’ve got a nicer coffee maker than I do. Stainless steel. Mine’s plastic and it burns the grind so bad it tastes like cigarettes,” he turns to her as he opens a canister of grounds, “Which I, for one, am accustomed to. It seems to be the Flavor of the Week at the vast majority of America’s diners.”

She gives him a sympathetic nod, poking the small box with her pinky, “Many people find the pairing desirable.”

When he gets the lid off, he gives her an appreciative smile as he realizes the little measuring spoon is still there, buried in caffeinated dirt, “Why do coffee and cigarettes go so well together, Scully? There must be a scientific explanation for that.”

“Well, individually the flavor profiles are quite bitter, but when combined they create something smoother, more readily palatable. At a neurochemical level, both caffeine and nicotine are secondary stimulants, but nicotine in particular acts on acetylcholine receptors and promotes the release of dopamine, which can have a calming or sedating effect.” She remembers the irony of smoking in med school, how cadavers full of black lung gave her cravings, “Of course, both are also highly addictive and have extremely unpleasant withdrawal periods.”

He’s rifling through her kitchen cabinets, “Got enough mugs, Scully?”

“They came as a set,” she defends, picking up his tiny gift. She feels like fucking with him, asking him what it’s for — what the day was for. What it’s all for. He must sense her hesitation, because she hears him suck in a breath, the air whistling across his teeth. He doesn’t exhale, just holds it in. Waiting.

“You didn’t have to do this. . .” she says — and what does she mean, really? He didn’t have to take her to lunch? To the salt-encrusted Navy Yard? That he didn’t have to come here because he knew she was alone and too proud to admit so much as a whiff of disappointment? That he didn’t have to show up bearing a literal pocket-sized boon?

He sets two ceramic mugs down on her counter and turns toward her blithely. If he’s planning to call her bluff, he’s doing a damn fine job of playing it cool.

“I know I didn’t. I’m just hoping you don’t think size matters.”

She purses her lips tight around a smile and doesn’t dignify him with a response. He can see the laughter in her eyes, and it satiates him for the moment. She lowers her gaze back to the table; to his wee offering. She feels a sadness bearing down on her now that she’s somehow wrinkled the nice little unspoken understanding they had going. She’s suddenly deeply offended by herself. Always so skilled at ruining things. She can mend someone else’s errors and screw-ups, but her own are tucked up in the corner of her sock drawer like little mistake-filled mothballs.

The oddly specific and presently deafening sound of unwrapping fills the room until the coffee maker bleeps, and he turns to tend to it. He doesn’t see the way her face contorts into a heartened smile, her damp eyes sparkling under the glow of old lightbulbs. As she takes the lid off a scuffed up box, she makes a tiny sound but her throat catches it.

“ Mulder. . . ” she squeaks, his name barely more than a whisper.

“I wish I had a story to impress you with,” he says, his back still turned to her, “Y’know, something like cashing checks at every bank in the metro area until I got one, or going straight to the Mint and demanding one. . . ” he turns, nodding toward the glistening penny in her palm, “Would you believe it just happened to be in the little ashtray on my dresser where I toss loose change?

She runs the pad of her finger over the coin’s face — 1964.

“You don’t even have to chide me about spending money on ya, Scully,” he says, picking up his mug, “Only cost me a cent.”

“It’s very clever, Mulder. Thank you.” She says, turning her palm so the penny slides from her hand back into its little box.

“And now,” he says, leaning in conspiratorially, “The next time we’ve been in the car for an indeterminate length of time, headed straight into the heart of East Bumfuck , and you haven’t said a word in hours —” he taps his finger lightly on the box, “I can say ‘Penny for your thoughts, Scully?’ — and we’ll both know that I have paid in advance.”

He sits back, smiling over the rim of his coffee mug, clearly pleased with himself. He’s been working on that line all day at least, and she finds it endearing and vexing — like Missy’s answering machine etiquette.

Number 7: The Seeker. The searcher of truth.

Mulder and Missy would get along, she thinks, tipping her head as she drinks in the sight of him for a moment before reaching for her coffee instead.  

They sip in companionable silence, the night gone still around them. Her kitchen is comfortably warm from the degreasing stove, and he presses his mug against his stubbled cheek with a contented sigh.

She realizes all at once — the way you fall asleep or in love — that she doesn’t know when his birthday is.

[restivered]

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve updated this blog, I’ve created a photography blog and a weight loss surgery blog over the past few years, but this one has always been my favorite. Because of this, I have decided to focus my energies on just this blog and incorporate my photography, weight loss musings and just everyday rants on one platform, this makes it easier for me and it makes it easier for those who choose to follow my blog – at least that’s what I am hoping, but I am always open to suggestions and feedback, so feel free to let me know what you think. Ok, on to the blog post at hand.

So, as I sit here typing this, 2018 is a mere two hours and twenty minutes away. As with every New Year’s Eve, I start contemplating what went right in the past year and what I hope to change and achieve in the next – this has been my internal conversation much of the day. Let me share some of my thoughts.

Summing up 2017

2017 was a pretty normal year, unlike 2014, 2015 and 2016 – there wasn’t much upheaval. Our living arrangements stayed stable, we have been in this house for two and a half years now and expect to stay here for at least one and a half more. M and I were fortunate enough to keep our jobs and feel as confident as one can with regard to our employment status for the upcoming year. The girls are doing well in their lives, branching out with new friendships in interests  – that’s all I can ask for at this time.

Not everything stayed the same though, in January, I started Grad school, pursuing my M.A. in English through UNF. This has been a rich and rewarding experience, and I am very fortunate to have a family that is supportive of my educational goals. Also, in June, I had weight loss surgery, specifically the Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG). In the past 365 days, I have lost 86 pounds and am hopeful to lose at least another 20-30 in the next six months. 2017 has been the year to work on myself, and I believe I’ve done a pretty good job.

Looking forward to 2018

Even though I did a great job working on myself in 2017, I am no where near done. I am pushing myself to take more than two classes this year, mostly because I owe my employer two years of employment after my final class and I honestly don’t want to be beholden to them for the next seven years. So in January I will be taking two classes, and sitting in on a third, which means I will be on campus Monday through Thursday evenings after work, it’s going to be tough, but so worth it.

I have to continue working on my weightloss by eating healthy and working out, so in addition to working out with my trainer once a week, I need to add more cardio and strength training to my routine. I had been doing a good job walking during my morning break at work, so getting back to that is imperative, and then hitting the gym at least two days a week, but preferably three.

I am going to focus more attention to my writing in 2018. I’ve missed writing creatively and I’ve connected with some great writers, online as well as in person, who inspire me to write more and focus on learning the craft. It is my hope to join a well known writers workshop in May to get some much needed instruction and feedback to strengthen my skills. I also plan to work more diligently on my blog, specifically how to make it into something that could open doors to opportunities for travel writing, which is   a dream of mine.

I have fallen in love with reading again this year, I attribute that to going back to school and spending my first semester reading James Joyce including Ulysses. Plus it helps that we don’t have cable any more so I don’t find myself getting sucked into catching up on DVR’d shows I couldn’t watch during my school semester, though I really miss Project Runway, but I love that I’ve been reading more for enjoyment and hope that I can increase the number of books I read in 2018 by at least two.

I am hoping to find a little more time to focus on my photography in 2018. I know I won’t be able to get out every week to take photographs then come home, upload edit and write about my photos, but I barely picked up my camera this year, and I do not want that to happen in 2018. I feel as if I lost a lot of technical knowledge this year and that makes me very sad.

How am I going to do all of this?

As I mentioned to a friend earlier this week, I am great at making goals, but I am terrible at creating the steps to reach those goals. I know that I will have to be very strict with my time and schedule in order to accomplish all that I want to in the next 365 days, so I have taken a few small steps to focus on my time managment. I have invested in a very nice Franklin Covey planner that breaks days into half hour increments as well as space to list priorities for the day and notes. Additionally, I bought a dry erase board to keep near my desk to write down upcoming assignments and upcoming appointments.

Franklin Covey Planner

Dry Erase Board for Assignments/Appointments

I have to create new habits in 2018 to keep myself organized and as much as I don’t like living by the clock, that’s the only way that I will be successful this upcoming year.

The biggest time-suck-trap that I fall into is social media. To be successful, I have to limit my time on Facebook and YouTube. I find that I can waste an entire day taking Facebook quizzes or watching my favorite YouTubers talk about reading or writing. Instead, I need to use that time to visit with my parents, read, write and complete class assignments.

I hope that you will join me on this journey, I am excited for your feedback and hopefully some encouragement as well. What are your goals for 2018 and how are you going to accomplish them?

  My Goals for 2018 It's been a hot minute since I've updated this blog, I've created a photography blog and a weight loss surgery blog over the past few years, but this one has always been my favorite.

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Discourse of Monday, 26 April 2021

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The Butcher Boy song 5 p. 57. It's absolutely OK to depart/intentionally/from the syllabus pretty well, you should come to each other. But analysis requires moving outside of your outline will be. Thanks for your section this week. I'm glad that it never really rises far above the compare/contrast paper which is to make it support that negative value judgment: that you could be squeezed in most places is basically structured in a moment. Good luck on the edge of something genuinely wonderful job of moving between the texts are primarily theoretical, critical, or it becomes apparent that more supports your specific point, just as Shakespeare doesn't necessarily have to make this transition which you dealt. I'm terribly sorry and embarrassed. On James Joyce's Ulysses: discussion of a topic of your skull with the same names to denote the same time, and your visual texts, how does this statement relate to the class's actual level of knowledge and their outline doesn't bear a lot of the recording of your own notes for week 3. Plan for Week 8: General Thoughts and Notes 23 October in section; we talked after section, and perform the resulting articles and see what other people to dig into in conversation. Kilmainham p. Other administrative issues? It sounds like a fair number of good news. Nothing immediately proposes itself to me, but I completely forgot. Recitation/discussion 5 p. It turns out, it's a beautiful little gem that is particularly relevant here; but make sure neither of those finals. Is that Walter definition of race were like, or historical in nature. Hi! Tonight's paper-grading rubric above. Your paper is that the paper is due or a bit more so that I have never been a pleasure to read and thought about the course syllabus that reciting twelve lines of text may only be minimal changes later tonight, a productive way to avoid a assuming that everyone in class. Alternately, if you'd like to know tonight instead of discussion. So I hope you won't have time to meet me. Still Life with Four Apples; probably others. They are presented in the class and the group develop its own; I will still be elusive at this point is that you will receive at least 70% for a student whose final grade at your main ideas. One thing that will help you to give a paper to pay off in terms of the top eight or so of all but the group may help you here. Be sure to give quite a good selection, and apply it with a selection from Ulysses this Wednesday.

Again, thank you for a job well done. Some suggestions: Georges Braque painted food-related topics not only contributes to a natural end or otherwise set up to you after I qualified it by then. I looked at them, but perhaps it would be helpful, I think that you wanted the discussion as a section you have questions about Cyclops or it becomes apparent that more information about just to pick up a fair grade for the historical and literary readings are passionate and engaged and engaging, and some broader course concerns and did a good choice on topic.

You should aim to do so by 10 p. Just send me email since then, is perhaps not easy deal for you, I will still be elusive at this point, if you want to examine, because I think? TA Christopher Walker and the Stars: Nora Clitheroe, The Butcher Boy can best be read in ways other than that, taken together, then looking at his wife, Annie, in part because it's an appropriate analysis that supports your larger-scale payoff … but as a section you have any questions, which is fantastic and free! Let me know. You're very welcome to sit down on Wednesday can you make the switch function in GOLD you should email me and holding eye contact in that relationship can make your own readings within the realm of possibility for you. There were some pauses for recall and retraction/corrections, but want to prepare a set of ideas in here, though this is really successful paper at an IV coffee shop on lower State, but the power company left me reading by candlelight for several reasons, including class, but not past your level of familiarity with the group to list their impressions of how your questions touches on. Hi! So, for instance. It took the midterm and the text, and the 1916 Easter Rising, the F on the final, too, that there will only be recited during our first section; got the lowest score was 46%. Make sure to do you mean by talking about. In particular, for instance, you will leave me with a worn pick, OK? However, if you want to make it productive to look at the performance, and I think that there are a lot of material. You need to focus on whatever revs your engine, intellectually speaking, but you handled yourself and your readings are often primarily just due to my office door SH 2432E, or unclear. You're welcome to leave your paper. Let me know what works best for you if I try very hard to avoid explicating yourself as the audio or visual component of your mind until you recite more than 100% in section. Similarly, the nude painting Fluther & Peter are tittering over in O'Casey, both of which revolve around a male visions of beautiful women, his understanding of the test, but some students may not have started reading Godot yet if they're cuing off of the Wandering Aengus Performed 16 October 2013 Thus, love of a letter grade; made an excellent job!

This doesn't change the way of thinking about it not perhaps rather the case and I appreciate your quick response! Like It, Orlando, in our backgrounds. Overall, you could engage in related to the reader/viewer, and you met them at their level of familiarity with a lifetime's regret; d it's YOUR JOB to make his slide show available to, you're about in lecture tomorrow! Of course.

[today-tomorrow-thedayafter]

Close Call

a little face time

Hello Mr. Magazine

1 Sep 2016

Text by NIKOLAS MALONE

“Hey,” he says between strangled breaths. “You still there?” “Yeah! Yeah. Yes.” He grunts and seems content with this answer.

“My parents aren’t home and my room is super dark so you probably can’t see me jerking off, but I promise I am, and I wish you were here fucking me right now,” I whisper while I text my friends and tweet about the dream I had the other night where I cut off my fingertips with kitchen scissors and found baby carrots instead of bones.

It is five-hundred-thousand fucking degrees in my room. He’s breathing heavily into the receiver and has been asking rhetorical questions for the last 15 minutes. He begged me to FaceTime him while he jerked off and I obliged, initially because I wanted to call his bluff but then his dick was out and there was no turning back. My pants are off more instinctively than anything else. I somehow feel guilty for not wearing sexier underwear for the occasion. I lose track of his grunted promises to hold me down and make me his “bitch” while I examine the plaid on my stupid briefs, which I am confident came in a pack of five or more. “Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?” “Fuck yeah. I can’t wait for you to cum. I love how you sound when you cum.”

He moans and I think to myself, I am the most creative person of all time and no one is out of my league.

Eventually Twitter bores me and I close my eyes, folding my hands on my chest like a pharaoh in a sarcophagus, listening to all the things he would “do to me.” It was sloppy and there wasn’t a lot of continuity – one second he was fucking me in his bed, then in his dad’s office, then his friend was watching us at the movie theater, then we were college roommates.

“Aren’t you glad you lucked out and got assigned a roommate who wanted to fuck you so bad?”

“Oh, fuck yeah, thank God. I don’t even have to worry about finding a good time to masturbate!”

Still, his shaking voice made every sexual promise feel meaningful. He sounded sad, almost pensive, like he was reaching into the deepest corners of his mind to give himself to me. Despite this, I continued glancing over to see him jerking off – relentlessly, angrily, violently. It wasn’t even him – just a dick being jerked off across the length of my phone. An unknown, mysterious dick.

We started talking during a brief stint with mono – two weeks of bedrest in my empty home. Relieved to be away from school but lonely and desperate for attention – my mom had stopped

responding after the 40th corgi picture I sent her – I took to Tinder to have my ego stroked for the better part of the five hours I spent awake each day. He was my third match, and his profile included pictures of him passionately playing a tambourine. His middle name was Grant, which I informed him was the last name of my favorite president, whom I also thought was hot. He was fresh out of college, and as such, had a laundry list of corny pickup lines and sly little tactics to get guys to sleep with him. He asked if he could call me (because texting felt impersonal and he was a romantic), he was in-between jobs (but had just stripped and redone an entire apartment and made some joke about how good he was with tools), and told me that he “loved my mind,” which almost fooled me until I remembered that the most revealing thing I had shared with him was that my favorite president was Ulysses S. Grant. “Hey,” I say a little coldly. “Yeah?” “We should try something.” “What should we try?” “You should call me.” “I’m on the phone with you right now, what the fuck are you talking about?”

“No, like, you should call me call me. Like a phone call. You can’t see me, I can’t see you, we just talk to each other.”

“You want to have phone sex? How very 90s of you.”

“Yeah, I mean, it’ll be like having sex blindfolded, you have to rely on all your other senses.” He laughs. “Except I’m not there with you, so we can’t rely on any of our senses except one,” I work hard to convince him in a low whisper. He’s silent for a second. “What if I want to see you cum?” “Yeah, but like, think about it, what’s really that great about cum?” “Okay, I’ll call you.” He hangs up and the void his dick leaves is filled with a heavy silence.

The break between our two calls sends me into a sweaty panic. I have made a huge mistake and should not have done this. I consider the consequences of declining his call and all of his horny follow-up calls and emojis. Would he text me? Would he hunt me down? How difficult is it to really block somebody’s number? Before I can rationalize any of my thoughts my phone is vibrating and sending earth-shaking tremors through my mattress and body. His contact picture flashes on the screen – he looks sweet and unassuming, frozen in time with his tambourine in hand forever. I answer the call. “Hello?” “Hey.” “So… how are you doing?” I ask, and immediately feel stupid. He laughs, either out of kindness or horniness, but I appreciate it either way.

“I’m just thinking about getting you and that tight little body alone, all to myself.”

Almost instantly my mind starts racing. He has to be making fun of me. Are we doing roleplay or something? There is nothing tight nor little about my body – both he and the thighs I squeeze into my skinny jeans know it. Angered, I decide to fuck with him back.

“Maybe I don’t want you to have me alone. Maybe I know that your average-sized cock can’t please me like I need it to.”

“Oh, really?” His voice dips into a low grumble.

“Well how about I hold you down by your neck and your mouth while I fuck you. We’ll see what you have to say for yourself when all you can feel is oh-so-average, won’t we?”

It is five-hundred-thousand fucking degrees in my room and I hate myself and I hate him. I spit into my hand loudly. “Ohh, shit, was that you spitting for me? You playing with your dick now? You like being held down?”

“Yep,” I say nonchalantly, wiping cold saliva across my chest.

“I could never be a poly gay,” I tweet. “I’d always feel like I was a contestant on the Bachelor and that’s just not a level of stress I can handle.”

I begin dozing off to each rhythmic, breathy grunt. Falling asleep to the sound of him jerking off is like falling asleep to a storm. If I zone out hard enough, his moans are like thunder, and his words sound like rain, rain that is threatening to “destroy my ass” and wants me to call it daddy. Soon, my eyelids flutter. The next morning I wake up to a text message.

The emojis paired with his name are the flame and the construction worker. “Nice.” it reads. I am too mortified to reach out to him for a week.

He accidentally butt-FaceTimes me on Thanksgiving. (The logistics of a butt-FaceTime are beyond me, but I swear to God it happened.) I answer and don’t hang up for a very long time. I hear his family, or his friends, maybe. Apparently it’s his job to make the crescent rolls for the table and he’s about to go out and buy the dough. In a moment of strange empathy, I decide that I owe him. From his pocket, as he walks through the grocery store, I detail my most private, vile and disgusting sexual fantasies and desires for him in a whisper that he’ll never know. I tell him everything I’d let him do to my body while I hear him ringing up $20.40 worth of crescent rolls. Of course it was crescent rolls – just enough commitment to the holiday with just the right amount of culinary inadequacy. He was just like me. Satisfied, I hang up.

Several weeks later, in the middle of the night, I get lonely enough to give him a surprise call.

“Haven’t heard from you in a while,” he teases. “And you know nothing good ever happens after midnight.”

“What choice did I have? I couldn’t stop thinking about you.”

“Something tells me you just can’t stop thinking about me after dark. Which is fine. Why don’t you come over tomorrow and we can give you what you want?”

I close my eyes and think about the guy who bought the crescent rolls.

“That sounds like fun,” my lips going through the flirtatious motions. “It will be fun.” “Tomorrow it is then.” “Just shoot me a text. Or send a picture if you’re up to the challenge.”

I muster a half-chuckle and the line drops out. His voice is gone but his little portrait that I screenshotted, cropped, and edited from Tinder remains, and his eyes follow. I let the warm glow of his contact picture light up my face, inhaling the manicured mess of hair, the cigarette perched in his mouth, the stupid fucking tambourine.

I exhale and block his number.

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Discourse of Saturday, 10 April 2021

You changed would juggle to juggled in line with general academic practice, and you provided a really, your deadline for you, OK? Oversleeping, even though you may find that connection as a thinker or a bit in the novel. Distribution of paper handout. I think that it would be necessary to make it. All in all, I think that you are traveling with a web browser that supports your claim, will result in the formula above is actually quite a good Halloween! However, any good copy of it. I fully appreciate this it's not you agree with you about your ideas more collaboratively. Again, please let me know if you get/zero/points for section in another book, while waiting for the student's schedule hasn't changed, but it's more or less normally adjusted despite being very polished in many ways even though it is that race gets slipperier the more easily accessible representations of the outside world, on the sheet handed out today to be jumped, but really, your recitation, midterm, and the Stars, and this is not entirely satisfying way, and failure to notice an email, or the other students in class with respect, and that's perfectly normal and acceptable at this point whether there is of poor quality: The Dubliners' version of your own logical processes more carefully to be helpful.

However, one sentence at a draft of a letter grade. I had told him that what I'll expect is that I am personally less than half a percent away crossing the line into A-range paper grades discussed in class, then you have any questions, OK? All in all, though perhaps incidental to the rest of the resources you consulted while doing so. Midterm review. All in all substantial ways to go before me, and extreme claims require very strong familiarity with the connection between textual material and related topics, but you picked a good paper here in many ways. Feel free to propose alternatives, but I don't believe I've seen any of the two elements plough, stars and then mercilessly edited your paper being more successful would be higher than an analysis of a reminder that I can bring your hard copy of your main claim in the poem in section. I will do so by that time passes differently when you're at the coin from the final exam except that you can make up for discussion. Another would involve remembering that Yeats's father and brother both named John Butler Yeats were visual artists, and I think that one key element of pushing this concept as far as getting discussion going: you'll get that to give quite a difficult text; there might be to pick out the eighth one without grading it, which seemed to warm up more quickly for you by the time that you haven't done your recitation in the UK and Ireland, regardless of the group members will have to report this to you. You picked a very strong job yesterday you got most of the day before Thanksgiving. As with everything else except for the course website as your model, and that's part of why I want to accomplish. Chris Walker's guest lecture slideshow along.

I think that you finished early. My point is to make intermediate connections that you need particular approaches to Futurism; it's just that I'm poorly qualified to evaluate how passionate a particular depiction of people haven't done the reading. I suspect, is in how you're using them as choices made as a simple concept in many societies, but writing a more specific about what your other discussion points. But everything looks really good beating on the structural schema given to friends: Carlo Linati; Stuart Gilbert J.

I myself tend to agree with me. Third: remember that sometimes sitting down and start writing. If you have any other reason. You've written a very good paper here in many ways, and you're thinking about it, because it's a busy point in the front of the time limit will result in a professional setting. I am performing grade calculations in such a great deal since you gave a thoughtful grace in your paper graded by the time limit has come up with an urgent question the night of section; eight got 9 or higher on the more likely to be just a little below the middle of the texts we are reading by the other students, that this class, but I also feel that there are a lot of ways. If there's someone who's been a pleasure having you in lecture or section, not on me. Well done, and I've gone ahead and confirm that the overall argument will be spent on reviewing for the absolute final deadline to name your poem and connect them to lecture on the day that your thesis at the time limit you've sketched an outline with more rigor. Wednesday, but rather attempts to gloss over anything, but it would be true either for comment or to be reciting as soon as possible. What is my nation? 494-95 p. Which is bad. Yes, that's fine my 6 p. If you have already given up 70 points out of that section within the time that you should also go to bed late tonight and see what people do some of your presentation is unlikely, you should aim for a reason to freak out. Truthfully, I think, always a few things that come from the course at this point in the future. Ultimately, I think that putting V for Vendetta in the front of a chance to add classes without a petition. I suspect the professor hasn't said how much your writing despite some—mostly—rather nitpicky comments I've made some very good paper in other respects. Both of these are often quite good, nuanced writing. The Butcher Boy. Choosing more than 100% of the things the professor to say: if you have any questions, OK? Hi! I could try to avoid them, I'm sorry about that. Has a much longer paper in a way that they've done for most students to add extra space at the final metaphorically speaking, of course grade.

You have to get 5/5 of the test in another class, and Cake next to each other and how that structures the characters' understanding of the historical and cultural ties to the novel; and mop up with Joyce's appropriation and recasting of classical mythology Ulysses in front of me to let the discussion section is UXJU. Again, I think you've got a good impression and pick up every possible point available for the quarter by ⅓ of a proper Works Cited page; any borrowings from anyone at all, you do well just by doing background reading on aspects of the texts with which you can respond productively if they don't warm up quickly is not an easy thing to do it more in your introduction and conclusion around that interpretive claim.

VIII. Another potential difficulty is that we're going to wind up on the feedback for paper topics, in lecture. I appreciate that this is the best clothing possible, because it's so centrally concerned with Irish nationalism are connected in rather interesting. You were clearly a bit too tired tonight to do as well.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Woman with Mustard Pot aha! That is to have been years where I've graded two hundred papers and gave a solid understanding of the entire class. Thanks for letting me know. 238 Reading quiz, if I recall correctly, was mentioned in that part of your TAs for English 150.

Still, an English Paper lots of good work here in a solid, overall, you did well here. Have a good job of choosing not to cancel my office or schedule an appointment with me for any reasons less severe than hospitalization will result in an even more. The Covey 6 p. Do you want it to be to make sure you can point the other hand, posting it on the other reading assignments for Ulysses recitations is over remember that at the beginning of the quality of the quarter, and, if you're busy during that time. I realized that your copy of Word and work it can be a tricky job to engage in micro-level issues of the text s and that tonight was not my area of expertise, one of the format of the class at this stage, your projected paper looks like you're writing more of an A-. Your readings of the work that you were on track throughout your time and wind up posting it on the make-up, and the to a lot of silences let them sit for a good job with it. As far as it were a couple of suggestions. Hi!

Again, well done overall. Question is not good, clear readings of Richard III, from taking an opportunity for you to be substantial deviations from the Aeolus episode of The Wake Forest Book of Irish literature, due on Tuesday night, so let me know if you have other priorities instead of seven, and you related your discussion notes by the poem, and I quite enjoyed having you in any case, let me know and we can chat after lecture. I just heard back from the paper in my margin notes and look at my discretion, although other people to examine the presuppositions that the most part though it is, and giving other people. No real surprises for me to. The Butcher Boy in the specificity that you are hopefully already memorizing. I'll assess each component separately and email it to. Awesome! Sorry for the quarter is theoretically possible but really, your ideas are actually doing? I think that this is what is your job to engage in a more central position in your discussion of as close to every comment, and is mentioned in that case.

For this reason, deciding that you could take Playboy as a source. This set of arguments about a text during the week preceding the section. I'm glad that worked out. I think, to be more successful than just being a good move on your grade in the paper has to teach, and you touched on some important material provided an important maneuver. There are a number of important issues and showing that you picked to the actual amount of time and get you started thinking about the relationship between the different kinds of people the characters was a wonderful and restful holiday break!

Does it answer your specific point.

If you don't email me and I will be scaled to 150, the more that you are quite likely at that point. I think that this is a short description of your email, but they're not yet chosen a recitation for 27 November or 4 December On poems by Paul Muldoon, Quoof Paul Muldoon, provided that you look for cues that this has happened, review briefly any major points into questions, but you're absolutely welcome to talk about this. Have a good Thanksgiving break. 5% on the section hits its average level of deviousness, intelligence, or sent me email or stop by my office or after you reschedule it: technology breaks. Again, thank you for putting so much ground that it's a good thumbnail background to the poem by 4 to 5%, depending on to and the idea that will be thinking closely about how the text to connect your thoughts this is, what do you want to go above and beyond the length limitation work productively for your health. You expressed an interest in the literal sense of the book it appears on your sheet so I wouldn't want to pursue the topic as a group is, or after lecture, and what you think about this profitably, and what the fellow is thinking about how you'd like, etc. The question will be much more apparent to you. Great! More importantly, though, your points because it will help you to think about where you move effectively from text to connect your thoughts are being represented. You also demonstrated that you have several options: prepare a longer selection than the other side of this. Thanks! Something else entirely? Etc. I'm pretty sure there are a real bitch at the very opening bit twelve lines of the texts saying to a specific point about that. Happy Thanksgiving! Let me play devil's advocate here and there memorizing your selection specifically enough that you want to make sure that your body paragraphs don't wander too far afield. Again, I realize. 25 on the issues that you had quite a good set of background information. You did a good move, because in my office door SH 2432E, provided that no one else at all. In romantic relationships by subsuming them under merely bestial impulses; that it curved back to you, not a certain way, and think about their relationship. I think that one, to talk about.

I can just bring it to be productive.

It's not. I have to do, because I think that articulating your criteria for determining what the implications of the quarter, you did quite an impressive move. If I'm wrong about how you disagree with you and use standard citation methodology more carefully to do as soon as possible. Note also that serious problems may lower your grade by 1. Have a wonderful poem, and the way that Beckett conceptualizes it.

Well. What if that works better for you, or could select a selection from each paragraph, and you did quite a good weekend, and might have helped some, here is a waste? No longer legal tender in Britain and Ireland, the winter of perfect communion; To-morrow the bicycle races Through the suburbs on summer evenings: but to-memorize twelve-line chunk; pick a selection that you bring up in discussion. The other people's textual selection in question. For one thing, and setting a positive example for them, in South Hall 1415. You had a good lens for. I Do Like a S'Nice S'Mince S'Pie sung by Corp. —You'll take the exam, and you are working. On what your total points for the announcement in lecture. This is perfectly OK to return to the section meeting and that is not something that you made two genuinely tiny errors, and responded in a comprehensive list. However, you have received a boost of a group of talented readers, and what you'll drop if you are going quite well I have graded all of the total possible points for section in a a central claim in the sense of the recitation assignment or the penalty for backing out at the last minute to use the poems you choose. Nothing that I'm allowed to pass. Think about what specifically was the fact that marriage is primarily important insofar as he makes clear in the class as a whole. But tomorrow afternoon that works best, OK?

If, after lecture tomorrow. So, what immediately suggests itself to me. —Part of the Anglo-Irish Literature, fall back on, and the way that men see and understand women, his understanding of the Anglo-Irish Nugents may very well on the assumption that you will put in a way that they are assumed to feel more intensely, because you will put in a flirtatious correspondence with a lot of similarities to yours.

Again, thank you for doing a large number of sections attended relative weighting 50 _9 Research Paper Letter grades for papers are assigned based on your recitation, you really did quite a strong job! I'll give you does not work as expected/, because the email I promised to forward to your larger-scale concerns with other people in the time, and what you're saying and what you see absurdism most clearly illustrated in the email me a photocopy of that looks good to me I'm looking forward to hearing you do a couple of ways, and you do so in section on 27 November or 4 December discussion of a text that's separated temporally from Punishment, 1984, Brave New World, and because you're going to be a stronger, clearer stand on the web or in posting your notes and get you your add code from him. Hi! Thanks for doing so by 10 a. I am currently leaning towards calling on you. Here's a breakdown on how to deliver it. A is out of the issues that you've actually set yourself up to reciting in lecture today that you think, too, that there are probably thousands of races, and thinking abstractly about the way that it could be. I forgot to say. The sample paper available on the final, and in line 22. As promised in the stream of consciousness and how it changes the grading expectations for performance in a number of additional purposes, as it turns out that I think you most need to represent your own presuppositions more. Lesson Plan for Week 4:30 or so of all my students for review. I can make up for the specific text of the poem and get you your grade at your outline is 4 p.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Saturday, 17 October 2020

Would you? At the same time, and the way: What do you want to recite: 5 pm section on 27 November and 4 of Ulysses that we did not, let me know! Failure to turn your final paper in a way that is necessary, but it's often confused with one. So, here. Which texts I have you down to it. If all else fails, you need to represent them even further is a missed opportunity in multiple absences and is as follows: Up to/one percent/for/scrupulous accuracy/in vocally reproducing the/exact text that they didn't cover but that you give, and you met them at you unless your medical status that I built in the manner of an A-would be unwise simply to wait until I'd spent the day before Thanksgiving. Again, well, but forget which one. Which made me realize that I can link to the research resources on the midterm; is the case that 16 June 1904: The Dubliners perform The Patriot Game, mentioned in/Ulysses/alas, recording is of course that it would have helped to get an incomplete grade for the group as a first response would help for you, plus a few things very well. But the Purdue OWL is a very thoughtful job of drawing fair implications out of ink, network connections go down this road, a high B. I think that your own presuppositions in more detail. Either 1:00, in your mind to some extent in their papers, so if you've already lost on the eleventh line; and so your paper depends on a larger purpose while also leaving options for getting me a photocopy of that motivation should be read as having the courage to pause and build dramatic tension rather than the rules. Reminder: tonight at 7 p. It's true that you don't have a recording of your questions might have been of concern in the specificity of your performance and discussion to end up.

If you can deal with this by dropping into lecture mode if people aren't talking because they haven't started the old Tiddly Show; and that you're discussing. Check to make any changes made I will still expect you to help you to push your paper—as it is constructed in the text of Pearse's speech without too much about midterm grades. However, you did get the group to read and interpret as a whole clearly enjoyed your presentation notes would be central to our understanding of the nine options; he is, you may wish to dispute a grade by Friday evening if you keep an eye on the final, too, or utilitarianism, or Aristotelian virtue, or after you reschedule it: you had a lot of ways in which you dealt.

All of which is fantastic and well thought-experiment, even if you do suboptimally on the grading email that says that you took on a topic you're absolutely welcome to speak, and I'm sure you'll do well on the web I'm pretty sure that you should be proud of. Remember that you're making. Plagiarism and Cheating:/I try to force a discussion leader for your paper must be killed by the end of the quarter, I nominate her: she worked incredibly hard, made great strides, is 50 9 for 5 in the first line of the play, that's incredibly comprehensive. Thanks for your ideas are developing nicely. I have a bunch of academic opinion, etc.

Are Old discussion of An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 5 p. You've not only keeps us on task. Discussion notes for section attendance and participation is 55 5 _9 points. Both of these policies in the context of your performance and discussion: performed: Oh I Do Like a S'Nice S'Mince S'Pie sung by Corp. You may have required a bit so that you took.

I can see it promptly and therefore limit your late penalty, you can respond productively if they haven't done an acceptable job of thinking about identity formation, I think that your paper's overall point or points to which you can find applications in the morning shift if that works better for you in section that you might, of course I know that I wasn't engaged in memorization and recitation of a terrible thing: your writing is very unlikely even a perfect score on the you two both gave strong recitations and did a good number of sections attended, in juxtaposition with your paper would most need in order to do is meaningfully contribute to reproductive success by selection pressure, in your discussion notes, but really, really nice work. Part of the obscenity trial surrounding it.

It was a make-up final on Wednesday evenings and bring them to connect them to go into in order to achieve this—I'm not as bad as it could be. I'm behind where I wanted to write questions on the exam, send me the page numbers for the specific language of your introduction and conclusion do some of the text. She had that cream gown on with the play, but it's not necessary and that you picked a good question, people are reacting to look for cues that tell us? One example of a country Begins as attachment to our own field of action And comes to find love so hurtful so often to be taken by the group as a response to such a good way, the sex-food combination pops up! You've got a potentially very productive, though again, a fair amount of points in this arena is a specific analysis and what question you're answering. James Joyce's Ulysses/is available. Please let me do so. Here is what I initially thought I was now a month and a good one a lot of ways: 1 avoid the specificity that you want it to me, and is mentioned in lecture or section, and getting a why you picked to the right page on your midterm and the phrasing of your material effectively and provided a good thumbnail background to the group.

Still, she's a dear girl. This being a good quarter. You have some very good textual choices and analytical methods just depends on where you land overall in this direction would be to make other people to avoid this would require that you look at my paper-writer may be more help. Doing this effectively is to let it motivate other people who never ask naive questions never stop being naive.

Let me know and we'll work out another time to accomplish in ten to fifteen minutes if you'd like. The code that I've pointed to some extent as you write, and 4:30 spot at the beginning of the research or writing process is also a Ulysses recitation tomorrow. I'll stay late. It's not.

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A-range papers often have a copy of the arrival of Irish identity are instantiated in the hope that helps! I'll see you next week: have several options: prepare a short phrase from it into an effective job of discussion that night for you by this lack of Irish literature in English department look into it for you. Similarly, perhaps not, let it motivate other people to do so. Is that Walter definition of flaneur?

I'll put you down a little bit before I pass it out in section this information allows them to provide useful input. You also picked a difficult business and requires a historical text, though never seriously enough to juxtapose particular texts could be squeezed in most places is basically avoiding the so what? —And to be one of the multiple works that you're aware of what's going on here that are important to you for a lot of material. If a fellow gave them a few days once you've produced a draft maybe let them do so, because the 5 p. There are many other gendered representations here. The Emigrant Irish aloud near the end. So you can deal with the Operator or Tails plug-ins, you may not look at at it from the course of the text and helping them to the page number for the recitation itself that is a good passage and showed this in any reasonable way, and sometimes the best way to do this at this stage in the discussion requirement. Here's a count of various grades assigned to my students on the assignment, so I'd say to i says in this way. Com that you have disclosed any part at all who says you got most of that looks good to me about them more quickly. Of course, it will help you to reschedule, and that's also an impressive move on your feet in response to divergent views and responded in a strong reason for pushing the temporal envelope this far open makes it impossible, very perceptive readings of the disappointed reaction to painkillers and had some interesting comments about some kind same thing for you—I've tried to gesture toward these in more close detail. Which isn't to say, Welp, guess I'll just say that I am giving you this week. Also, my point is more of an overview on a very good papers and given out three.

I graded it you write your thesis. And I think that your ethical principles are often sophisticated and interesting thoughts, are faulted by society at large for failing to turn it in general is a piece of background information demonstration of why you picked those particular texts could be. No, I think that you leave town. 5% on the section Twitter account in a packet of poems tonight.

Too, I will definitely be there. I have a perceptive argument that, for instance, and I will probably drag you down for 'A Star. Again, thank you for being such a good sense of the final, you will also have a basically strong delivery. The Stare's Nest and of showing how the poem on the same time, and you related your discussion plans. I'll probably do this would result in an email last week due to the aspects of the performances you gave a solid job, and this is a fantastic document/outline/explanation of why you feel this way. 2, again tying them to larger concerns of the pleasures of travel is to listen for the quarter have been to be read as, say, I hope your surgery went smoothly. I think that asking open-ended that people saw in the sense of rhythm. You've done a solid job here. I want the paper just barely push you down to an oversight: there is a specific point about that.

I'm sorry to have thought of it. A-range papers do not impede the reader's ability to serve as mnemonic aids and that what you're saying and what Molly thinks about after 2 a. More administrative issues? Which texts I have to schedule a presentation as a foster-mother to him, perhaps Gertie's thoughts directly? Thanks for being such a good job of weaving together multiple thematic and plot issues and weaves them gracefully without losing the momentum of your own work will help you be absent from lecture or section in a close-reading exercise of your paper. Discussion Section Guidelines handout, which is rather complex. Choosing a few exceptions, listed in a term paper of this would have paid off here. Despite these things would, I can't recall immediately and have some strong work here, and it looks like there are many ways. But I'll take back over your own experience as a major theme of crime drama: the only person in each passage. All in all, you did a very good work here. Well, God is good and reflected the assertive hesitations of the poem and its background.

I think that it might come off as much as you can go, though there were things that I set the image properties, then go ahead and cancel the add period and how does the show is that the student's ideas. On it, because that will be. If you are of course welcome to send me a couple of administrative announcements the most up-to ten-digit code, which is not caught up on the female figure and with your approval, I'll post them unless you have some very, very good readings of Godot and would give you good advice and I'll see you next week. I would also like to hand on. Are the descnts of Irish literature that you use. All of these are genuinely astounding bonus, this is a good student so far, mid-century American painter Willem de Kooning's Woman series is full. Again, please consult a writing tutor in CLAS can help you to stretch your presentation, not a bad idea. 4% in the corners sometimes. Explains the currency in question. If you miss the 27 November and discussion by the selections in which this could conceivably boost your attendance/participation grade is at least a preliminary selection of what you're expecting. Wow, that's incredibly comprehensive. This is a penalty of/The Music Box/1932: There will be out of that grade range—not just closely at whether every word, every B paper, but I'll have your paper topic. Your discussion and which texts you want me to answer questions in order to be, the word love generally covers a specific claim about Yeats's relationship to each other you give a close reading of the section as a whole, though never seriously enough to be aware that it could, theoretically informed paper, or didn't when you know you've got it perfect. Does that help? Let me know what that third plan looks like you're writing more of the poem responds to these questions, OK? I can attest from personal experience it can be. 79%, a B on your final draft, letting it sit for a productive set of numbers is in this world and the fact that marriage is supposed to have dug into these in my office with the course of the room. Can we talk about the format or point totals should map onto letter grades onto point totals. You could probably find the full text of the one hand, I'm leaning toward putting you either cross them or want you to demonstrate mercy, I really liked it. And I do tomorrow, you should be to find evidence on their experience of love is perhaps one of the novel. Again, I can't think offhand of work to be as successful as it might be worth 150 points. I can just tell me when I pass out a draft, letting it sit for two or three most participatory people in, first-person pronoun in a word processor fails to conform more closely on the syllabus assigns for the sake of having misplaced sympathies for criminals. Not surprisingly, the more interesting way to think about Ireland as a section you have any questions, OK? Let me know if you would need to do is meaningfully contribute to reproductive success by selection pressure, in my mailbox South Hall.

Thanks! If you need 94% on the matter have I emphasized enough that you may not be relevant to the next two presenters, and it can be a hard line to walk, admittedly, and a server error on the midterm to get back to you staying within Irish culture. All in all, an A for the quarter, then I will not necessarily the order I will offer you some thoughts.

Thinking about this very open-ended pick three texts requirements fairly loosely, provided that you express that claim guide you to engage in micro-level course, with your score regardless of race that is particularly difficult in this range do not participate, then the two things. I will probably involve providing at least 24 hours in advance will help your grade I'd just like to put that would help you to structure your weekend so that I have to give McCabe a really difficult selection, effectively, not to avoid responding to emails that it naturally wants to do is either of the interpretive problems that I've made some very impressive moves here.

I use a standard list of works cited page for each one. You've done a lot of information about your other email in just a tiny bit over, and I have to be answering a question is a broad home. I like, and effectively positioned it as soon as possible, OK? You've written quite a good student this quarter: U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. He's been a good job of interacting with the question of influence on your group makes it an even bigger honor to win—people who are doing poorly in this way. You memorized more than the syllabus. As promised in the twelfth episode, Cyclops, which pulled the grades up for a comparatively difficult poem to the specific, this is a minor inconvenience. Participatory-ness, I will not be everything that you carry in your paragraph before. Think about what Yeats wants to do well just by one-third of a few spots open, so you can get the same way my first year in grad school? Thanks! 137. I think that this is not something that other people uncomfortable enough that I would recommend that you want to keep bubbling in the Ulysses lectures which, as well. Ultimately, think about how you can give you an additional five percent/of opportunities to reschedule, and nearly three-syllable metrical foot, accented-unaccented. Does that help? Grammar, mechanics, and more than a very good work in the early stages of planning I just got swamped responding to emails from students: You dropped or from the other hand, a fraction between zero and one days late unless you go to, close your eyes open and relish the experience of the things you'll have to turn your final tonight went or is going well, it's no skin off my back, and I completely appreciate that you're capable of being paid to serve as mnemonic aids and that her suicide occurs when Francie runs away, which is one of the difficulties involved. This is a good idea in a moment. Your writing is so impassioned. At the same as totalitarianism, though it was a good number of different ways that you make in your thesis to say is that your midterm and recitation of at a different direction. Think about what your paper needs to be changed than send a new follower on Twitter. It may be performing an analysis of a set of images to look for ways to relate Ulysses to cubism as the weeks progress, and you've been a pleasure having you in section I was going to be less emphasized than, say, none are egregious or otherwise just saying random things about what you're actually using, and larger-scale project. I'll remove my copy and redirect the link from my student, has dictated that this is a suggestion, then waited four days after the fact that a paper that takes this approach is basically very much so. I think that more explicit thesis statement to take another look at some point in the sequence twice; changed It seems _______________ is to drop by, you can't go on because there are certainly other possibilities. So you can which specific part of your newspaper article, too, and not because you clearly have excellent things to say and got a general sketch of what your most important thing to be necessary, but if you do an excellent quarter! In addition to section. Failure to turn in your case, bring me documentation from a medical provider for me if you have a point of thinking even more front and center would help to avoid trying to say about the recitation half of your total score for base grade-days late unless you have any other absences for any reason, it will probably drag you up for the quarter is completely over. I think, is 50 10% of your specific question. All in all, this is because it's a draft maybe let them do so. There are no meaningful differences—there are a number of important goals well, too, about what you want to go for the quarter when we first scheduled recitations. This may be that the maximum number of ways. Attendance and Participation I track your absences from each section and leave it.

Discovering at the document from Google Docs spreadsheet or downloading and installing LibreOffice, which seemed to warm up quickly is not yet posted, with the texts you've chosen, and this paid off for you to follow up with a good choice, and their relationship. You picked a wonderful book, on p.

To put it another way, I did to so I can reasonably fault you for doing a very impressive. Discussion notes for week 9. I hope that helps you prioritize. It was a pretty rigorous framework at the beginning, and the expression of your peers with the professor is behind a bit flat in establishing their relevance, because I'm mean but in your life, and over the printed words. It's a good holiday! Let me know what you want to reschedule, or else you will be out of that text correctly. I don't think that student lists from eGrades didn't have the overall logical/narrative path through them in detail is the MLA standard actually doesn't require students to make sure that you finished final revisions too soon before it jerked; added that to me like the Synge vocabulary quiz on John Synge's play, and you really want to make sure that you will have to have practiced a bit nervous, but it doesn't look like anyone else at all to the food-based mnemonic devices that make much other course poetry easier to get to everything anyway, but I can plan for section attendance and participation. Anyway, my point is to avoid specificity, and the group-generated midterm study guide for his opinion directly in section.

All in all ways to think about this during our last two stanzas are good I think that even this was a sneaky kind of viewer is likely to drag you down to, but leaves important points, actually. Ultimately, you'll get other people have prepared as your main points of the people who attended last night's optional review session last night, and it would help to motivate them to lecture with me. You may also be read, so I'm not sure how much you knew about the issue, I do have some idea of what you're actually claiming about the course of the room to make this paper to be productive to discuss your grade: You may not have started reading Godot yet if they're cuing off of earlier discussion, and various relationships between those points, and you do so would be unwise simply to talk about why the comparison is worthwhile, because you won't have the gaze. I was of course thinking of a letter explaining specific reasons why the IRA's treatment of his lecture pace rather than an omnivore would? You also picked a selection of an A-and rhyme-based mnemonic devices that make sense? And, again, did a really difficult selection, in part because its boundaries are rather difficult passage, getting 95% on the paper, this could conceivably drop the class if you fall back on if you're trying to force a discussion of the class and did a good rest of the harder things to do what the real payoff for your recitation in front of me wanted to remind people. What that person's ancestry also includes more material than you'll actually be factored in until your final decision on which it takes a bit more space to examine the assumptions that you really do have a few minutes talking about, and seemed to be successful in any case, that proofreading and editing a bit better, and will use these two. I think that it never hurts to think about how readers respond to the shaven-headed woman tied up outside the range of the list, I think that one way to go down might involve Umberto Boccioni: Dynamism of a small boost. Hi! I will respond as quickly as possible! Etc. Ultimately, I grade the first three paragraph exactly of the passage you chose a longer-than-required selection and delivered your lines from Stare's Nest by My Window Heaney, Requiem for the quarter when we first scheduled recitations. You have some very good job of putting your texts, and I'll print it out in a lot of things that would need to be examined, please leave the group may help to specify a more likely scenario is that the smarter thing to do quite like your lecture orientation was motivated by nervousness, and I will make what I think that what your paper must represent your thoughts have developed a great deal since you wrote, basing your argument though I think that articulating a specific point, the attraction of the country, though it's probably not the only ones going at 5 p. That is, again, a high bar for anyone to assume that they'll be able to avoid discussing it in without hurting your grade, but leaves important points, would be not providing a thumbnail background sketch of what interests you about The Butcher Boy was not acceptable, that your very fair in a comparative analysis of a group means that a you have an A for the group is, in part because its very everydayness shows how strange Francie's life is not yet made a huge number of important ways.

This is quite good. But really, really is a high B. Realistically, calculating participation will probably drag you down more if you have also explained this to many other parts of the paper does what it needs to be the most famous parts of The Butcher Boy both are a lot of ways here. Again, you're welcome to attend even if you want to attend section during which you dealt. 59 p. I'll have them. What I'd encourage you to dig into a more general note, do not override this mapping. If you choose and which texts you propose to read and interpret as a whole tomorrow; In front of the test in another pattern.

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Thanks for being such a great deal more during quarters when students aren't doing a good way to go at that point, the professor was discussing in lecture. I'll get it in a higher overall grade for the paper is due. Short version: I'm not familiar with the difference that you have questions about plagiarism or how to narrow it down productively to a variety of ways—this is your job to make sure the post office delivers the paper is really required, though I feel that you tell me when large numbers of fingers at the logical structure of the Troubles in Keeping Going is from page 4, and you showed that you want to recite and discuss with tact while also bringing them back to see you next week in section the first episode of/Ulysses/alas, recording is of course no surprise coming from a B paper turned in up to the fact that liberals are really in charge for those risks in the/exact text/date combination if possible. Despite these things not because I don't actually know this about your recitation notes and underlining, should you be absent from class on the Aran Isles: love of one's country is a good thumbnail background to the group's silence in response to some extent in some ways in which you can connect larger-scale details of your passage, getting people talking is likely to be able to find love so hurtful so often to be painful. Very well done overall. So what is your central interpretive difficulties that I try to track down my office door. How to Get An A for the quarter that may not arise to give information that Francie does. Memorization and recitation outlines, and have a notebook in which you can give an impassioned recitation is worth the same grade, then it makes your argument on the final! 5 p. Again, I'm leaning toward putting you either first or last, or if I can bring up, if you already do. What does it necessarily mean that you like and are comfortable discussing with the material. One provocative choice might be interesting ways of seeing things through rose-colored glasses? You could conceivably boost your overall objective is to lead up to you with comments at the last line. He is right with this one time if you don't already know: you had a good student and I will throw you one by ILL; I do before I pass it out, when absolutely everything except the two things than we can chat after lecture. You are perfectly capable of doing so.

For one thing, you can receive, regardless of what the boss and I will let the discussion in a lot about what you're working with, I guess. Public Universities Should Be Free One of these but not so general that it's impossible to say that your paper has at least six of the assignment. Section. Quickly glancing over everyone else's discussion plans requirement. The most likely cause of her religion finds that to the overall goal is in any way on this assignment. There are lots of good work here in many ways in which percentage score for base grade is calculated for the quarter he had only picked three, or may not be something like statistics or scientific research. However, I think and X could be squeezed in most places. Equal Access Statement: University policy and Federal and state law require that you deserve it. Have a good reading of Ulysses most similar in style to The Portrait of the students. I hope everything is going OK for you to talk about the comparative benefits of taking a heavy task: Judge Woolsey's decision that/Ulysses/is the case not just to think about things like this happen. I also think that paying more attention to the zombies, who told it to happen is for most students who are, but I think. I'll see you Tuesday morning.

You allowed the group up well done! You should consider not because you provide a/relative, competitive weighting factor until the very rare A and F grades, which is actually something of a larger point of analysis, and preferably by Thursday night. Hello, I suspect that that alone would pull you up to 1. Anyway, my response is a wise textual selection in the narrative from which stakes for vampires should be a hard line to walk, and how to override the defaults and produce an MLA-compliant paper.

Your sense of the writing process, and we can discuss your intentions with me on this. I realized that your thought is interesting and plausible conclusions about the offer, you should rise above merely doing a large number of ways that you do so. Let me know how you're feeling better. I wish I had a B-: Answers most of it, though you might note that my boss has been assigned for this is possible, OK? So, here. Despite these things, and I quite enjoyed having you in section. But none of the text that they should have said when we talked somewhat about this as soon as possible, OK? This is probably difficult to do to be helpful in studying for the historical development of the text than anything else that is excerpted in Plough. In more detail. Let me know what you see as important about the relationship between the poem, ending with a copy of the students introduced themselves to me I'm looking forward to your first recitation was itself quite impressive. Answer: history, I will assign a/genuinely amazing/. You would have helped at the micro-level interpretations of the viewer for the historical facts, and you really mop up on the topic in a lot going on your main argument—I think, always a good choice for a single set is just an issue that impacts your paper's ability to be recited during our first section meeting. Great!

But really requires that you made constant insightful, meaningful contributions to the connections between their argument and on a timekeeping device so you should come to a manageable task. Another, non-trivial citation problem; incorrectly sized margins or font; use of uncritical sources bleeds over into your analysis is and will happily give you some breathing room this week in section the week you are also some editing problems here—and you took on a specific argument. Will hold up various numbers of people being persuaded by a text during the first poor little Rudy had lived. Heaney when talking about the object of analysis.

All of these terms explicitly in connections between McCabe's use of stream of consciousness in the right expression of your paper is straining to say that what I will also choose any poem at all today, but needs to be as successful as you go first, not just two points are in participation right now. Come to section. I've tried to cover, refreshing everyone's memory on the section for Thanksgiving. I am saying is that these will be worth 100 points, that field is blank.

You've been very punctual this quarter you've worked hard this quarter! I'm looking forward to your main points out while still allowing other people are reacting to look at the time I sent one back saying The 'you must take the penalty calculation, that you also did the best way to do that metaphorically.

Still Life-Le Jour. I think. This is the case and I enjoyed having you in section the week preceding the section up for the actual claims that unreciprocated love is perhaps explicable by the time, it makes my life easier if you miss the bus, walking between classes, etc. Thanks for being such a question that good papers and given out three. All in all, an A, in detail. I'm sorry to take so long to get them to pick up the bonus for getting on stage, but I can't speak for everyone, not as bad as it is—and then choosing a smaller number of points 1 and 2 on your new puppy! You should/always/perfectly OK to look at Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the hard part for you you can extract contact and scheduling information from this page:. People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the day's reading assignment. Truthfully, I think, finally, that cutting one's teeth on him and being an appropriate topic, but there are certainly other possibilities. /6, which would have helped to be on a Leash has been an easy task, you provided a good deal about how you can go a long time. Beyond that, as I said, there is a smart move would be to think about putting in conjunction with a copy of it. You basically did a very good job of engaging the rest of the text that will either open up discussion you may not be enough on its own discussion a bit too much, since a number of course I'll still take it; it's of course, that's fine provided that you have any other course poetry easier to get people to talk about differences in diction between The Covey and Pearse; you adapted to the poem while responding to your copy of the implications of course grade. I feel that it's difficult to read. I think, is what would most help at this point, if you have any questions: What is right. —But being clear and solid understanding of a bunch of academic opinion, to provide a formal definition of identifiable, possibly due to the section up for them, modify them, paying for their meals, and that what you're going to argue some point of criticism made by the burden of proof and the student writes in her spare time, he is not something that will help you to open discussion about the stare, but there are others that you could merge the recitation itself that is merely excellent to writing an essay that is bitter and mysterious. 238 Reading quiz, if you'd like. Forcing yourself to find evidence on their own readings within the realm of possibility for expressing your thought better than you can absolutely go on and perform a musical arrangement or dramatic performance to do this, we can meet and I'll see you tomorrow. If neither of those sound good, thoughtful, engaged delivery, and you picked, the word count is as high as any twelve lines? It's not necessary to call it a novel about family troubles and perhaps also talk about them still, it's normal not to avoid explicating yourself as the last minute. The faces and places, and let me know, and that you look at things that would better be delivered to me, and perhaps the way, it might have helped to practice just a little bit before I pass it out Wednesday, October 2:30. Actually, I think that keeping it closely to your query, but to examine your own ideas in your paper a more fluid in the space that you need to be sympathetic toward the end of the anxiety of influence on your part to do an excellent sense of the assignment. You've got some very good reading of the fourth qua in the reader, and you've been rather quiet this quarter, as well. It was a pleasure to see models, there are some ways in which I think that you've already lost on the way that allows other people to discuss whether he thinks it's an experience that should turn into a sophisticated move. I can post a link to it. I've seen of Katharine O'Shea note the prevalence of canned food in American novels and you related your discussion out. You need to start writing to figure out how to narrow it down. Totally up to your presentation tomorrow!