19 November 2008

A New Rhythm: Blame It On The Moon--Or Hormones?

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Another night at the college. Yes, I am out of my mind. What can I tell ya? So will tomorrow be like Tuesday, which also followed a night of...
18 November 2008

Flurry and Fall; Weird or Queer?

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This morning, I arrived at my 8:00 am class early. It was almost impossible not to, as the class was two doors away from my office, where I...
17 November 2008

Waking in Strange Places

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Tonight I am at the college, where I'm reading papers, preparing lessons and surfing the web. I decided that if I went home, I wouldn...
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16 November 2008

What Is a Family?

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This morning Mom and I were talking about last night's segment of 20/20 . In it, Barbara Walters interviewed the "man who gave birt...
15 November 2008

The Fifteenth

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It's rained through most of the day. The sun put in one of those appearances it makes when it's in the center of the storm, then the...
13 November 2008

Reading

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It's really odd sometimes to see what people notice, or don't notice. And what those same people say, and how it differs from what y...
12 November 2008

Sitting Still

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I find myself thinking now about how much time I have to spend lying down or sitting still. Hard life, right? But that reclining and motionl...
11 November 2008

Autumn Moon

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Tonight is one of those clear, chilly fall nights with the kind of full moon that's clear and bright without the starkness it reflects i...
10 November 2008

To Tomorrow, However Long it Lasts

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I am leaving puberty, perhaps even adolescence--and entering the last quarter, or third, of my life? I still feel as if, in some way, my lif...
09 November 2008

Coming to Life With the Dying of Light

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Thinking about Toni, again. The days are growing shorter and so there's less light. But sometimes, at this time of year, that light can ...
08 November 2008

The End of Rain

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"Sometimes I feel like the rain will never end." An 11-year-old girl wrote that. Theresa would be about 30 now. Where is she? D...
07 November 2008

Getting Used to Happiness

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Eight more months. They're what stand between this day and my surgery. Or between me now and the person I will be, whatever that may be....
06 November 2008

The Election. What Else?

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Over the past two days, it seems that all anybody has talked about is the election. At the college, of course, just about everyone is happy ...
02 November 2008

Turning, continued

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Yesterday I started to mention that a family friend molested me. The first instance of it that I recalled, just a couple of weeks before I ...
01 November 2008

Turning

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The first day of November...Another turning point? It's not that any major event happened for me today. But somehow, I feel something ...
31 October 2008

What Are You Doing On Halloween?

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So what were you for Halloween? During the past week or so, a few people--co-workers, mostly, as I've spent just about all of my waking ...
30 October 2008

Academic Dynamics

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Today I had a visitor to one of my classes: a professor who came to observe and evaluate me. He came to the most difficult class I have this...
29 October 2008

Life Unfurling

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You've heard about your life flashing in front of you? Lately, sometimes I feel like mine is unfurling like a film in very, very slow m...
28 October 2008

Midterm Week

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Another crazy two days in a crazy week at the college. There are midterms and "peer evaluaton" of faculty member. So on Thursday I...
26 October 2008

Babies? Blame the Hormones...

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Another quiet Sunday on which I slept later and got less done than I'd planned. I haven't even come close to reading all the papers ...