Someone wrote this somewhere on the web:

"Nothing is ever difficult or complicated. Think less."

Apparently that's both *advice* + *axiom.*

Maybe only one who believed in the axiom could afford to give the advice. Maybe only someoe who had followed the advice could even come up with the axiom.

The Secret Contents of My Ambiguous Case

I carry this case around campus this year -- it's two toned, orange and tan and was probably produced in 1955 or thereabouts. It effectively functions as my "briefcase" (a term / idea / object that doesn't really "turn my crank" -- I swore I'd never carry one)...which is great because it's much larger than any "briefcase" i've ever seen...so i can replicate the chaos/hope/&possibility with which my desk is replete --

(or... "it's messy inside my briefcase like it is on my desk.")

But what's interesting to me is that I get all these comments about it from other faculty.

"You got a record player in there?"

"Bringing your trumpet to class?"

"Mmmm." (with a shaking head -- Julia eventually told me that her dad carried an identical case when he travelled -- and filled it with his hard liquor)

"You look like some kind of salesman."

"What *is* that?"

I love the idea that the objects and relations of a person's everyday self could act as a sort of stimuli for questions....

My mom always said that I was confused about the point of clothes; that I was under the impression that clothes were costumes.

Well, she was at least right about the second part. I certainly think that clothes are costumes.

For everybody, though, I think they are. I just happen to think the character I'm playing should probably be a little more quirky than the rest of the cast...

peace~

okay after this one -- NO MORE QUIZ RESULTS -- but after being so frivolous on the last one -- I had to do something to promote truth in my world...

I'm loaded. It's official. I'm the 53,957,565 richest person on earth! How rich are you? >>

today is my first meeting with my tenure and promotion committee -- hence the silence for the last little while. The front burner is dominating.

Actually lots of little backburners are going and going strong, but I don't have time to write them into community...

sorry to all whose email remains unanswered -- hopefully *part 2* of my week will yield a little more connection - time.

my brother turned me on this blogger quiz -- I'm not usually about such quizzes -- but I must admit bloggings been a bit of an obsession for the last few months.

the whole experience has illumined for me, though, a little bit, how and when i'm devoted to face to face. When i do and don't feel okay about making personal boundaries.

but i'd better stop...i'm launching into a little burner. don't have time. gotta work on appendix 2A B -- dealing with Criterion 2 a. (2.) (f.) -- gotta love life in bureaucracy...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGELA! (my little sister -- not so little any more is turning twenty two, buying a house and succeeding at her first real job. Well she hasn't said she's succeeding -- but -- c'mon! She's a Rudd!)

18.75 %

My weblog owns 18.75 % of me.
Does your weblog own you?

Lynn will be relieved to know that its not a more significant portion of me.