I am so awake right now.
Being awake at 7:55 AM means that I’ll be tired by 10.
Caffeine is so bad for me.
felixnation :: Feb.16.2007 :: Addictions, Conversations, Odysseys, The Coal Mine :: No Comments »
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That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
My co-worker D– was organizing a departmental social at a Turkish food and music extravaganza, and she sent out an email to all members of our department and members of our ancillary department (ie, people we like).
When I saw her, she stopped me and said “Felix, YOU haven’t responded.”
felixnation :: Feb.13.2007 :: Conversations, Hermit Cave, The Coal Mine, coworkers, friends, strangers :: No Comments »
My other tie
“Don’t you ever wear something other than a black tie?” my students asked.
“Why sure,” I told them, “I do, in fact, have one other tie that I’ll wear to work.”
felixnation :: Feb.13.2007 :: Conversations, Fashion Police, The Coal Mine, family, students :: No Comments »
Which cowboy are you?
My wife and I watched Brokeback Mountain the other day. No, she didn’t twist my arm to watch. No, I wasn’t silently signaling something secret about my relationship with her. The movie won awards and had Anne Hathaway and Linda Cardellini. I don’t think I needed more of a reason to watch it, and those two last reasons are enough to overcome any uncomfortable/awkward love scenes.
After the movie, we watched the entire run of special features in which someone presented the idea that Jack and Ellis represented different sides to a romantic pair, or something like that. One is romantic and impetuous (Jack). The other is secretive and sullen (Ellis).
felixnation :: Feb.03.2007 :: Conversations, Hermit Cave, wife :: No Comments »
Save the wabbits, save the wabbits!
So D– and C– were telling rabbit stories at work today. In the course of telling us all the cute stories about how their children cared for dying rabbits they taught me an interesting factoid about the little cottontails.
The mother’s hide their young in nests.
felixnation :: Jan.11.2007 :: Conversations, Mad Schemes, The Coal Mine, coworkers :: No Comments »
But do I have to?
My nose is red and bright from the tissue. I’m tired, physically tired, from the job, from the travel, from the yelling and screaming and talking and cajoling, from the teaching, from the grading, from the reading, and marking attendance, from the day.
And she tells me what to do.
“Sleep,” she says.
felixnation :: Jan.08.2007 :: Conversations, Hermit Cave, wife :: No Comments »
I need 1000 excuses before summer.
I didn’t know that a phone call to the West coast could be so dangerous.
It’s my friend’s birthday tomorrow. We hadn’t talked in years, so I picked up the phone and called her. From our end, my wife told me that I sounded like our very first date– I wouldn’t stop talking.
felixnation :: Jan.04.2007 :: Conversations, Mad Schemes, Odysseys, friends :: No Comments »