May 28, 2009

• Delightfully enough, around 4am this morning, my stomach woke me up. It was upset and/or hungry. At 32, I still can't decode my stomach's needs and wants, so I got up and decided to go for a walk. I was shocked not to see more people up walking and driving at 5:30am; it's not like I live in a slacker-ish city.

  Anyhow, on my return, I contacted my Amazon Credit Card people about an error; I'm fairly certain I called India. With "damn this out-sourcing" ringing in my head, I made coffee and actually just watched The Today Show for a couple of hours. After a much needed nap, I discovered two text messages from my lovely friend Cheryl about David Sedaris coming to NDSU (OMG!). June 9th... 7pm book reading & signing. Granted, the book they are promoting is one I've already read (When You Are Engulfed in Flames), but I may end up bulldozing him down with hugs and gushes of affection. I think that's the best bet for getting him to consider becoming my new best friend.

  And now... as I ponder him and all his books I've read, as if they were required for the ultimate literature class (now THAT is literature I would throw into the CANNON people!), I'm thinking... HEY, HE COULD BE THE AUTHOR MY ENGLISH 110 STUDENT READ. DUH! I mean, he's witty and hilarious. He uses language (a theme in that class) in odd ways, and his books are typically in broken up into small stories/essays. Perfect!

  Ah. What a lovely mid-day feeling I'm having. Now, to seek out food before I accomplish some STUFF. That stuff would be wrapping up more changes in the summer school English 120 shell as well as possibly taping myself using iMovie to introduce me and the course. This way students can SEE and HEAR me, and I can lay out the, "Please don't get on my bad side and send error-filled emails or hand in stuff late; I expect more from you than that crap. Thank you."

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