ON ACCEPTING THE FRENCH IDEA OF GENIUS:

If the video doesn't imbed (seems to be having an on and off issue today) here's the link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1215240/James-Dean-lives-New-Allan-Gray-advert-gives-original-rebel-cause.html
(totally worth a look)


My first reaction: offended. As an eternal fan of James Dean, I am a bit miffed to see him raised from the dead to help garner recognition for a South African Investment firm.
My second reaction: my heart is breaking.

"Given more time, imagine the possibilities."

For fuck's sake. One of the last things I needed to see/hear today, as I'm sitting in my freezing cold office (it's hot outside, so the AC is cranked through the roof here at school), within eyeshot of a stack of portfolios almost 2 feet deep...and nary a one graded. It is overcast. I am annoyed. I want to sleep. I have a billion things to complete this week. My brain is being pulled in all directions: home/school/work/obligations/fascinations. Given more time, imagine the possiblities.

In honor of my no-time-having self, my todo lists:

Today:
prep 101
teach 10am
teach 11am
create discussion board for 06/08 sections
post Stephen King essay to all sections
update and reorganize course docs on blackboard
post power point on word choice to all sections
waste time by bitching about todo lists on LJ
grade 10 portfolios
do dishes
clean kitchen
walk dog (park??)--didn't happen.
grocery store
make dinner
wash jeans/towels
fold jeans/towels-put away
submission list/database update
ready submissions for 5 contests (find checkbook?)
shower
breathe
grade blackboard postings TR
check email for student issues
I guess if I don't do them I move them forward?

Tomorrow:
submissions in mail
complete proposal(s) for App Studies Conference
10 portfolios
check email for student issues
prep 101
teach 1:40
teach 3:05
prep MWF
Ketner lecture 6 pm
watch Project Runway
ready chapbook submissons
sleep

Friday:
Proposal(s) due App Studies Conf
prep 101
teach 10
teach 11
Blackboard postings for weekend
15 portfolios??
chapbook submssions in mail
ready more mms subs for Sat mailing
Zombie conference proposal
make dinner
gather notes for monday ethos/logos/pathos workshop at 1

Sat:
submissions
portfolios
presskit for roy, upcoming writers/book fests

Sun:
submissions
portfolios

I WANT to do the following things, but believe I might be nuts:
update squeefinity (I have 5 updates, but need to work on them before I post them)
start on invites/todolists for halloween
figure out if there is a way to get away for R and I's anniversary
start narrowing down poems for SAMLA presentation
get some things out to some people
finish my draw-a-cup
record some Blood+
work on fixing that quilt
work on some poems
write a bit

Things I need: time, James Dean, a massage, and (right now) something to eat.

Lee Pace--I agree brain, he is lovely as hell, and my be my new boyfriend. (Look him up ladies...oh, so loverly)

I also thought I should research why it is people had to get blood tests before marriage. (Turns out it was to detect syphillis. Who knew? Not I. )

Rh type and Pregnancy--which is why I thought people had to get blood tested.  I am RH negative and I really, really needed to know what that meant right now. Thank you internet. (And curse you stupid blood, stupid, stupid!)

Now I just discovered that only 6 percent of the world's population has my stupid stupid blood. Thanks again internets! And I just discovered that the highest percentage of A- blood (82 %) is found among the Blackfoot Nation. This blood thing is interesting.  

Right now the Japanese are really into Blood types as signifiers of personality (positive and negative RH doesn't factor in here).

Here's a breakdown from a Japanese culture site ( http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art22988.asp ):

Type O:
Type O's are outgoing, and very social. They are initiators, although they don't always finish what they start. Creative and popular, they love to be the center of attention and appear very self confident.

Type A:
While outwardly calm, they have such high standards (perfectionists) that they tend to be balls of nerves on the inside. Type A's are the most artistic of the blood groups. They can be shy, are conscientious, trustworthy, and sensitive.

Type B:
Goal oriented and strong minded, type B's will start a task and continue it until completed, and completed well. Type B's are the individualists of the blood group categories and find their own way in life.

Type AB:
Type AB's are the split personalities of the blood groups. They can be both outgoing and shy, confident and timid. While responsible, too much responsibility will cause a problem. They are trustworthy and like to help others.


Well, that seems weirdly likely. Weird.

From another site(http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/takemywings/bloodtypes.htm):

Type A

People with blood type A have a deep-rooted strength that helps them stay calm in a crisis when everyone else is panicking. However, they tend to avoid confrontation, and feel very uncomfortable around people. A types are shy and sometimes withdrawn. They seek harmony and are very polite, but all the same feel that they never really fit in with others. A types are very responsible. If there is a job to be done, they prefer to take care of it themselves. These people crave success and are perfectionists. They are also very creative, and the most artistic of all the blood types, most likely because of their sensitivity.

Perfectionist is equal to "control freak" right? If so...that's me! 

So, finally I'm starting to get tired. Hooray, hooray. Thank you internet. Thank you.

 

Why is that movie almost 3 hours of my life that I'll never get back? Was this REALLY nominated for an academy award? It was horrible. HORRIBLE! I HATED IT LIKE I HATED THE NOTEBOOK. No, the Notebook was better because it had James Garner in it, and I love that man. This. Well, the Benjamin Button was not my thing, no, sir, not...my...thing. Why do I even try to watch these tearjerker things? I guess I should have known. But I had hopes, because I know the F.Scott Fitzgerald story it's based off of (I read it years ago in "Tales of the Jazz Age," a perfectly dull collection, except there was a story about a mountain that I liked. ); as it turns out there is little connection between the story and the film except for the idea of aging backwards, which is not a very clever idea since the ancient britons had it first.

EH. Plus if they wanted Brad Pitt to look younger they should have stolen footage from Thelma and Louise, instead of CGI-ing him into some sort of mechanical looking man thing. The only thing I did like about this film--my girlfriend Tilde Swinton was in it. And she's lovely. (Although in the movie she is described as plain...how can a 6 foot tall, willowy, odd looking woman be "plain?")

Bless me lj for I have sinned, it's been like a month since my last confession, and so I will try to make up for it in record time by filling these here pages with useless none-senses and blabberfications.

Aw man, I got 8 holy craps and a bucket of fried gizzards. Shitty penance.