Head full of thoughts, feeling very talky

I've been super talky and full of ideas all day. I woke up at 6am having ideas and racing for my notebook even before coffee. In fact it's been a super fertile week for random thoughts, coming up with stuff for teaching the class, poetry, and other stuff. But I talked about it all so much to anyone who would listen and wrote a wad of emails and now have no juice left in me for blogging!

I didn't keep my resolution for grading all papers on the same day as the class. So, tomorrow first thing in the morning I'm hoping to finish that off.

It works very well for me to wake up early and jot down some more stuff for teaching, & then to do the drive and be thinking & when I get to the parking lot at school, write everything down.

I might have broken another resolution, not to write down ideas while driving...

Also, a bunch of what I'm thinking is awfully unbloggable and I'm writing it in email.

In teaching, I think I'm going a little too fast. There's a lot to cover; and some instructors assign 5 papers, some assign.. ****8***** which I just don't get. I'm asking them to turn in the first paper (which we've walked through, every step, but I see now I needed to walk slower) next Monday. I am not giving quizzes - only in-class writing assignments and that might stretch a little to cover the assigned reading... Today I asked them to read the first section's table of contents, skim it, and read only 4 pages, the bit about thesis/topic statements. Will they do it? I try to make a case for why I am asking them to read it and what value I think it'll have for them.

Made them laugh today by saying that I had no idea who fought in the Superbowl. They were like "Um... 'fought'???" "Oh... er... played. " So they explained to me what teams, what cities, and who won. (I've already forgotten who won.)

It was fun to drop by the ST office and if you have ever not had a job for a gazillion years you will know the funny little thrill that I felt that I get to belong there for a while. I know, if you work in an office for forever, you are desperate to get out. People were all nice, and trotting about cheerfully in socks with computers in the crooks of their arm, talking to me and yet also half-watching their chat windows and giggling as if insane; if you've been to my house then you'll know that I felt *right at home* and found this awesome. To me it is a little weird to be talking to someone when we *don't* both have our computers open... I mean unless we're naked, and maybe even then...

Okay, I just said that to make y'all laugh. It isn't really true. I don't think I've ever ... oh dear... if anyone gets the idea they can make me do that, it could be very very silly. The true part is that I run around the house with my computer open and held in one arm, imprudently, in the way I used to (sometimes still true) have to do everything one-handed because my book was in the other hand. (Toothbrushing, cooking, carrying laundry.)

Blah blah blah! Good night! The internet will still be there in the morning. Repeat after me. The internet will still be there in the morning. Now go to bed!

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[laura Q]

The internet will still be there in the morning. Repeat after me. The internet will still be there in the morning.

One of these days you'll say that, and it won't! she wrote ominously. There will be giant solar flares or a Pulse a la "Dark Angel" or spontaneous riots or aliens. And then you'll feel really stupid for sleeping instead of cramming in a last few precious hours editing wikipedia. Or -- wait. Nooooo .... too horrible to contemplate. No wikipedia edit wars?

hey it's 2am. i should go to bed. even if the internet isn't here in the morning work is.

[me again]

seriously. stop it. you're tempting fate. i'm superstitious that way. find some way to say it, like, "so long as the internet is there in the morning and no disasters happen over night, which could happen, i'm not making any predictions one way or the other, but if the internet is there i'll be able to do stuff on it tomorrow, and if it's not i'll be in catatonia for days anyway, so i may as well get some rest now."

don't fuck with the internet.