dannydmc

Just been busy! It's the first week of classes.

well if you look back a journal page you will see the crap of people stealing my phone while i was at six flags. then of course, making almost 400 calls and using almost 3000 minutes. yeah.

He could have at least apologized if he was going to send an email to you anyway.

I wouldn't mind one bit.

Aw, hell yeah; that's my boy -- gettin' play all across the country. Word.
My computer is in the shop When I get back online, I'm looking forward to trading more nerdy thoughts with you about grad school and quarter-life crisis epiphanies. Until then, keep the ladeez all fired up for me

How have you been? It's been a while.

I've never heard of a good trip to the dentist, but I must say that your experience sounds particularly horrible.

I still don't have an iPod!

you spelled taoist wrong, and it looks like you're into toast philosphies.

mmm i like toast too!!

you totally geeked out telling me about your concerts in my jounral and came in here and wrote about it. i feel all special and crap.

Sounds like a fantastic concert. Good music brings all sorts of people together.

Just some thoughts: would you consider teaching at a different high school, in a less isolated area? And as far as the academic life goes, if you don't want to teach, don't do it. Your research might be stellar, your books might be read for a hundred years, but you're still going to have to teach to make ends meet. It seems like teaching college students would be somewhat different from teaching high school students. I've never taught high school students, so I'm not really sure. Depending on what it is specifically that you don't like about teaching high school, though, you might not find teaching college that much of a positive change.

Don't get me wrong. I love doing the grad student thing. It's not glamorous, but I do find it rewarding almost all the time.

Hey, glad to hear you'll be passing through Fargo! Are you considering becoming a student at NDSU, or a teacher? We've got some great graduate programs, there, but their teacher education department sucks.

Thank you. It means a lot.

Get thee back to the dentist or oral surgeon!

I hope you feel better.

Ha ha - this too shall pass!
I've always lived in really small communities too. It can warp your mind. I'm glad you're getting out of there. Grad school will be easy to adjust to though, because a lot of getting through it is about navigating effectively through a tiny community. Go for public administration - it turns out that being employable after grad school is pretty important. Who knew?

I think you would enjoy this modern epic poem called Fredy Neptune. It's by an Australian writer, Les Murray. It is absolutely one of my favorite books. And I'm really excited, because an old professor of mine gave me Les Murray's contact info recently and told me to send him some of my poems.

Fredy Neptune is about a German WWI vet who travels all over the world and, because of a freak accident, finds himself unable to feel pain and endowed with superhuman strength. It's very strange and very good.

I normally write in snippets of narrative, sort of. I tend to write very short poems and leave a lot unsaid. When I'm descriptive, I'm usually hinting at a story.

I've always wanted to write a verse novel. One of these days I will. I just need to have an idea that I can stretch that far. When I was in college I wrote a longer series of poems about a man who slept for most of his childhood, no longer needed to sleep as an adult, and observed all sorts of things that happen at night. Then it gets weird and he ends up having sex with the ghost of his unborn twin sister.

Yeah, I'm just another whiny, blonde, tofu-burrito-eatin' hippy who pays $1500 a month to share a walk-in closet. Oh, and I have giant fake boobs and I want to be an actrees.
So how's WI treatin' ya? That's my mom's home state. She said y'all can see the Northern Lights sometimes. You ever seen 'em?

I mean "actress".