I waited to review “The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop” until the spring grades were in, so it didn’t look like I was brown-nosing Lewis Buzbee, who taught my spring lit class. (Not that I am above brown-nosing… every week I rearranged the classroom tables and wiped down the whiteboard; I would have stayed after to clap erasers, [...]
During the day, I’m steep into a buzz of projects in addition to the weekly workload, but at night I am now turning into PrintWoman, carefully printing out my thesis one essay at a time (two copies each). I did not teach myself how to create a master document and then associate subdocuments with it, [...]
Another moment of Vendor Luv.
For several years I’ve ordered items for MPOW through CDWG (the government arm of CDW). It’s a particularly sweet deal for MPOW, because they do a great job of handling split shipments, essential when I have to get seven identical items to seven distributed MPOW-ers.
There’s a guy there named Jeff. [...]
Well, not exactly, but the MFA office–which is almost always as trusty as an atomic clock–sent out a message this evening saying that they had made a mistake in a message last month; the second-year readings are being held on August 23 and 24, not 24 and 25. Every day counts for our Excellent Adventure [...]
Transparency is all the rage, and a couple of friends have urged me to share all the details of our move to Tallahassee.
I would never do that to you.
Moving is gross. It’s dirty, tiring, and irritating. As someone pointed out yesterday, pretty soon after you start packing you get into this weird displacement problem where [...]
