Tom is Away

"So often the media would take even the most logical idea, like private funding for all sports stadiums or having all colleges require 40 hours of community service, and make it seem like there were two equally powerful sides to the argument, which was so rarely the case. A logical fallacy, is what that is… I mean, there was a time when you couldn’t get a lightbulb replaced because the press would find a way to quote the sole lunatic in the world who didn’t want that lightbulb replaced… Honestly, when lynchings were originally outlawed, you can bet the newspapers made it seem like there was some real validity to the pro-lynching side of things. You can be sure that the third paragraph of any article would have said ‘Not everyone is happy about the anti-lynching legislation…"- Dave Eggers, "Your Mother and I"

73 degrees and sunny again.
Luckily for Big Kev and Durkin, who arrive around 5 PM today, we’re supposed to get strong thunderstorms starting at 4 PM and ending sometime tomorrow night.

reading workshop letters, then catching some shuteye.

The Carolina Panthers’ punter is being accused of steroid use?
Come on.

Link

pretty good workshop. best note of the day: when my teacher, Jim Hynes, told me I may have the prologue for a good novel. That’s good.

getting workshopped, then out to dinner. Very likely back here tonight, because Big Kev and Durkin are coming tomorrow… and I’m probably better off not having any alcohol today.

Confidence crisis.
Preparing to be workshopped for the second time this semester.

Oh, if only I didn’t think the story I turned in was awful.

Rapper Ludacris, explaining where his inspiration comes from:

"People want to know where all the craziness is coming from, the creativeness, the rhymes," he explained. "It’s from eating chicken each and every day. One way or another — baked, I don’t care if it’s fried, rotisserie, a Caesar salad with chicken on it — I’ll eat it. Chicken every day."

writing workshop letters.

lunchtime

showering, then maybe getting some work done.

teaching, trying a new thing we haven’t done yet in class that I’m afraid may fail horribly. Back in an hour.

today’s forecast:

Cloudy, some wind. 77 degrees.

in bed early again, wondering why i suddenly need 9 or 10 hours of sleep per day instead of my usual 6.

reading

i’m never moving to indonesia.

too tired to focus, but not tired enough to go to bed.

Get your bid in now

grading papers is less fun than watching women’s basketball.

women’s basketball is just not fun to watch.