décembre 2011
23 billets
I WIN.
Grades turned in. Now who’s got the whiskey?
Grading Tests
Is the most depressing thing about my job.
At least I’m at home on my couch, hanging out with my cat as I grade. I enjoy that part of being part-time. I finished a pot of coffee and have now moved on to bloody mary’s - without the mary:) It’s probably going to be a long day.
“But granted the consciousness that even between the closest people there persist...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters: 1899-1902, trans. Jane Bannard Greene (via proustitute)
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Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire…
That's it...
Forget YouTube. Time to get out the guitar.
Petit papa noel, etc.
Looking for a decent youtube video of French Christmas carols to share with my kids tomorrow for a little fun before exams.
And oh the commentary on French culture I’ve found, the commentary that I can’t share with my kids. They are all either…
1. Too dramatic (the old-fashioned ones are great, and sure Josh Groban has a fine voice, but how do you sing along with that?)
2. Too...
“I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value....”
– Robert Walser, The Tanners (via ecstasyinstants)
“Back in the old days, women and men had all sorts of strategies to say ‘thank...”
– Philip Galanes gives advice for how to break up online. (Hint: Don’t.)
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