MoodyTunes

My school’s newspaper has a section called “Around the Loop,” and that’s where they print student responses to random questions or thoughts. This week, the question is about what should be added to the upper floor of the main building in a new freshman housing facility that cost 14 nations’ GDPs to build.
Before we [...]

It’s rainy today and I’m having trouble getting any work finished. My only accomplishment: finding a grocery store mystery bag. I bought a few things at the store, nothing special, tomato soup, toothpaste, sliced turkey, blueberry muffins, and I was pretty spacy in line so I just took the bags the cashier handed me and [...]

You could say I’m obsessed with hand sanitizer…
And you would be correct.
That short piece was inspired by, you guessed it, jugs of “Endure” hand sanitizer in my classroom.
Endure. Endure. I’m fascinated by that product name. What names didn’t make the cut?
Prevail.
Succeed.
Defer.
Equivocate.
Congeal.
Reply.
Rationalize.
I have two water pistols loaded with antibacterial gel and I squirt people if [...]

(This is probably my reaction to reading Padgett Powell’s new book, The Interrogative Mood, which is composed of questions. Just questions. That’s it. Check it out. I had the chance to hear Powell read from the book last weekend and it was interesting to track the threads, themes, thoughts…if I was tracking them at all. [...]

A random multi-part tidbit from my time at the Southern Festival of Books last weekend:
1.) If it rains the night before you are working at a book fair booth, there is a good chance that water has gathered on top of your booth’s awning/tent roof.
2.) If temperatures are in the low 50s (and were probably [...]

A Facebook friend posted this and I thought it’d be fun to share: a blog called “You’re a strange animal.” Craziness! There are cute mini-animals, like the red panda, and scary alien-like creatures such as the “tongue eating louse.” And everything in between… Have a good weekend!
And welcome to October.