Post-Graduation Week
I graduated last week — Thursday, May 10. It was one of the most boring experiences of my life. I don’t even remember half the ceremony. I may have fell asleep a few times. I happened not to sleep the night before. I was just so wired. But, when that old man (not sure who [...]
My Last Day Of Class
Today was my last day of class in college, at least until I eventually come back. It’s also the day before my birthday. I thought about not blogging today in remembrance of the Virginia Tech victims, and participating in One Day Blog Silence. Well, I’ve been silent long enough since the day’s almost over. It [...]
Sometimes You Gotta Say, "What The F-Bomb"
Or, as Joel’s dad mentions, “Sometime’s you just gotta say, ‘What the heck.’” Today I said it. Well, I said what Joel’s dad said. I just don’t think the F-bomb rolls off my countrified tongue as nice. “What the heck” is much more poetic, don’t you think? Have to write a 10-page paper by Thursday [...]
Thursday 13 – I Do/Don’t Like This Semester
I don’t like that I had to buy two copies of Wuthering Heights for The 19th Century British Novel. The on-campus bookstore should’ve had the correct version to start with. I do like my Bible as Literature class. There’s way too much homework, but I enjoy learning new things about the Bible. Plus, reading all [...]
I Live My Life For The Weekend
I think I’ve heard something to this effect before. And that’s what my life is all about. I live five days a week, only in anticipation for two. Believe me, my weekends are nothing to get excited about. But, I wait for them anyway. I usually sit around and watch a TV season of something [...]
Customer Service, TiVo, & New Career Idea
I just got off the phone with a guy from India who works for Amazon’s customer service department. Yes, I asked where he was from. I think it was because I’ve been reading The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman. And reading all about the outsourcing of [...]
Spring Semester 2007 & Worries
My first day back to school. In just a few short hours I’ll have to wake up and go to my first class of my last semester. I’ll admit, I feel unprepared for what lies ahead in the coming months and the coming years. Maybe not entirely unprepared, but worried nonetheless. My life, up to [...]
What Next?
What can you do with an English major? That has been a concern for me ever since I stepped into my first upper-level English course. This runs parallel to the major question in any person’s life, especially a soon-to-be college graduate’s: What am I supposed to do? Or, what next? We’re always trying to find [...]
Mary Beth
Taylor Caldin and Jordan Hill sat in a booth at Sammy’s next to the front window, sucking the last of their shakes. It was 11:30, half an hour before closing, and Taylor’s mother, Jean, who worked there, was wiping the counter clean. Taylor was an only child. His father hadn’t lived with them or even [...]
School Of Dreams
Making the Grade at a Top American High School There are more and more books coming out each year that try and uncover what it means to be a public high school student today. Edward Humes does this beautifully, but he takes a different route. He goes into the heart of one of the nation’s [...]
