midgebop
Drunk on a world served straight: through the lens of a travel junkie, movie slut, foodie, music lover (no country twang please), queer liberal, English prof.

September 2007



Bad Conference Presentations

Friday, 28 September 2007 9:57 P GMT-07
Today I had committed half my day to attend a technology conference nearby. What attracted me most about the conference were two sessions relating to Second Life. Being the techno nerd, I have been wondering about the application of Second Life in te
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Too too too much work

Thursday, 27 September 2007 7:57 P GMT-07
OK, I need to kvetch, yup sometimes kvetch simply captures it. I know that I am totally responsible for the predicament I find myself in, but alas, I can still kvetch. Tonight, it clearly became apparent I had hit my max when I flung my jacket around
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Pete Seeger's The Power of Song

Tuesday, 25 September 2007 9:22 P GMT-07
Jim Brown's documentary shows how Pete Seeger changes the world one song at a time.
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Finding Time to Read

Monday, 24 September 2007 9:37 P GMT-07
Each summer I'm reminded about the joys of reading. I find time to read during the semesters, but I don't find enough time to simply luxuriate in a text, falling into words and stories, not worried about deadlines. One of my unwritten goals f
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An Ideal Sunday

Sunday, 23 September 2007 6:35 P GMT-07
After a week of total total stressormania over the tenant situation, I finally found myself in a chilled space this weekend. I hopefully have new renters (I will know in a week), a way to clean up the place, and probably enough ridiculous character d
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Am I Gullible?

Sunday, 16 September 2007 5:53 P GMT-07
So the landlord/tenant saga continues. After much much consternation, I did go over to the house and posted (since he wasn't home) a three day notice for possession of the property. Today I get a call from him (someone watching the cat came over
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Pissed Off

Saturday, 15 September 2007 6:22 A GMT-07
I have never enjoyed being a landlord. It's something that simply happened due to a series of events. Over the years, I haven't had any huge disasters, just a series of small things like tenants who don't fully care for the house. Up unti
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A Fabulous Class

Wednesday, 12 September 2007 9:05 P GMT-07
Once again I find myself in awe of students. I am amazed and honored at times to be in a class of students who show up, not just physically, but with an amazing presence. Such was today in my ENG121 class. I had assigned the class an identity collage
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Jodie kicks ass

Monday, 10 September 2007 9:46 P GMT-07
Boom. Dead. Boom dead. Boom dead dead. In Neil Jordan's latest film, The Brave One, Jodie Foster totally delivers as an anguished victim, NPR like talk radio host Erica Baine, exacting revenge on the shitkickers of NYC streets. Erica Baine moves
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Adventures in Cheeseland

Sunday, 9 September 2007 6:41 A GMT-07
It's Friday night and outside the Rec Center in northwest Denver a group of us sit, wondering when our teacher will show for our cheese class. Finally, this goofy guy pulls up in his car, realizes that we have been given the wrong time, and begin
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Habits Unchanged

Tuesday, 4 September 2007 9:37 P GMT-07
As I kick into gear for a new semester, it's clear that some of my habits will simply not change.It's 10:30 at night, and I am finally prepped for classes tomorrow. Of course, some things are left undone since I have developed the habit of le
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Random Vancouver

Monday, 3 September 2007 11:35 A GMT-07
As I sit in the Vancouver airport (free wifi--whoohoo), staring out at the mountains, some brief random thoughts about my trip here.The clouds hovered more than the sun. C, my cousin, says he welcomes the rain and clouds since when the sun shines, hi
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