Oh boy was crazy Gender & Sexualities professor on a roll this morning.

(p.s. I do not know how this relates to gender or sexuality.)

• Why did it take me so long to open up this text window?
• If I started wearing velcro shoes, would that be really awesome, or would everyone make fun of me for being lame?
• What are the birds outside my window so ANGRY about?
• Why can’t I stop thinking about this article?
• If no one ever played a Bon Jovi song again, on the radio or in a bar or at a sporting event, would the world be any different?

We sat around trying to name
the things that do not exist.
We sat there wanting to touch
everything again and again, only this time
we would be blindfolded, our arms ribboned
behind our backs, using only our tongues.

I thought: please don’t grow
familiar. I think I said it out loud:
Please don’t let me love you
that horrible way.

The situation is grave:

the way we lean over each other, the way years
later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded,
with full grown tender things called souls.

Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates sing about measuring things. On Sesame Street.

Can we talk about how much I love Kevin Kline? Ok, thank you.

Johnny Cash - When The Roses Bloom Again

So, my Teaching teachers (that is, the people who teach the class I have to take on how to teach) assigned this article for us to read, so that we can have a discussion on the future of our profession.

The thing is, I don’t want to read this, because I suspect it may result in me staying in bed for the next week and writing existential shit whilst drunk. Does anyone want to read this for me and sum up the horrors in a kind way? Has anyone ALREADY read it? I hate academia sometimes.

Do you ever have your iTunes on shuffle, and a song comes on, and you go “What?? I OWN this??”

(Madonna - Beautiful Stranger)

chriscantwell:

Happy Halloween from Elizabeth and me.

We didn’t realize until we looked at our pumpkin from last year that this one is a whole lot angrier about stuff.

Also, we can obviously never live in a neighborhood with lots of little kids.

Just double-checked. I think I have everything.