Urban Honking

I’m trying to challenge myself to blog about something not job-related and all I can come up with is how much I despise Anthony Lane, which is not only not that interesting but which I have already blogged about so many times. All I can think about these days is: – my job – my […]

Starting week 3! The add/drop period here is crazy. It was 2 weeks long at my last job too but there was nowhere near this level of switching around. I think the kids here are a lethal combination of very very very concerned about getting an A / wanting the getting of that A to […]

Just in time for back-to-design-school I made this shirt. It’s available at Buy Olympia. Thanks to Pat for producing it. So, is it true? What do you think? There was a little discussion about it in the AIGA LinkedIn group today. That was fun.

– call Ombuds office and have extremely long, very confusing conversation regarding my plagiarism policy – google stuff about plagiarism – open a blank Word doc titled “FIRST CLASS LECTURE” for literally maybe the 100th time and stare at it for 15 minutes – suddenly realize that I am making a list of books to […]

I had nothing but stress dreams last night. I’d awaken from one, wipe my sweaty brow, go to the bathroom, fall back asleep, and have another one with a completely different plot. It went on and on. The first dream consisted entirely of me trying to calibrate the grading percentages in my syllabus, while all […]

Lovely rainstorm in the night awakened me in spite of the fact that my husband says it’s “too loud” with the windows open so we have to sleep in a stuffy tomb. Still heard that ol’ pitter-patter outside though! Mother Rain is more powerful than a shut window (note: when asked what exactly he feels […]

I woke up thinking about this li’l essay on comedy I wrote a long time ago, I don’t know why, and I just re-read it to see if I still agree with it, and I do. I think I would like to expand this into a real essay about comedy, for some sort of publication […]

I am sitting in my office, on the shitty blue Ikea couch, with my feet on a decent rug we got on sale that is all reds and blues and curlicues. At the rug store, we really immediately fell in love with this crazy rug that was all pink and blue and teal and psychedelic […]

Well would you believe it, ladies and gents? Would you believe it if I told you that after all of that hoo-ra back in Iowa, I suddenly today with zero fanfare turned out a beautiful crusty loaf of delicious springy bread? I don’t know what was wrong back in Iowa. This time it was easy […]

Hello everyone Hello children, hello Life continues apace. I am pecking away at various projects that desperately need to get done. I am going to hot yoga classes. I am needing a haircut–where am I gonna get a haircut in this town?? for years I have been going to my FRIEND for haircuts. Now I […]