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Spider Strings
11/4/14. Day off but not. So here’s the strategy: 10 papers at a time, then break, back to writing, break it up and finish something today, either a standalone or .. something. I want a certain...
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Article 5
Like this new idea of a newsletter I have this morning, after talking to Katie last night about sitting in on a tasting at St Fran with her wine blogger and journalist friends. “In a perfect world,”...
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quick morning note–
Started novel writing for day and I’m restless, after one cup unfocused but evermore focused after seeing the house that could our house, yesterday. Have to get through the student papers– frustrated...
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Papers Ahead…..
And I’m here in the nook hiding behind my entry. But not so. I’ll get in there eventually I just need to keep the jazz playing and the coffee in cup.. this morning’s coffee, from the shop down the...
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Vintaged Mood Mud
Clocking in late, 9:51.. rough morning with little Kerouac and his unwillingness to go to school, get ready, just being defiant to I believe see how I’d react.. but I’m here now with my head in a...
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Chatty Adjunct, a thousand words
No writing yesterday but for some notes and now I’m here in the adjunct office… Saw something yesterday, a video by a guy I’m not so much a fan of but I certainly respect his entrepreneurial edginess....
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“a thing added”— a perspective by Mike Madigan (submitted to NPR)
Paper stack, stacks, still to be graded. The other day asked, after I said I was an Adjunct English Instructor, “What’s an ‘adjunct’?” Good question. What are adjuncts? Depends who you’d ask. Monikers...
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And like that, grading done.
In the adjunct cell, 10:39, and have two full hours to Self. TWO. to write and be me and be free.. and I love this feeling to the point of treating myself to another coffee! Need to upload content...
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Nouvelle Forme
Trying to grade but the distance campuses won’t upload. Of course, I thought.. even after the semester ends they have to offer their troubling troubles that contaminate not only mood but any attempt...
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Procure For
Again, coffee for tomorrow made. A double cup in the tumbler, awaiting my wake come morrow. Before anything, before anyone calls for me (babies, notably). Sipping some Italian Syrah, random as it...
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Timing Self… Two hours to write.
Time 8:40 let the students out a while ago, stopped in a classroom around the corner and talked to that one adjunct (can never remember her name), see how she was doing. “Sorry I asked,” I remember...
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Stacks on Desk
One more glass of wine. Why not. Been a long day. I work hard (or I tell myself I do, but if you saw the winery I work at you’d laugh at me, say something like “What the fuck, this isn’t work, this...
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Finished Grading
(just some adjunct professor thoughts…) Ahead of schedule for once. Ahead of my deadline of 3:50PM. Time now 3:46 and I have time to me. This feels odd, I won’t dodge. Why, ‘cause you know me, I’m...
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Back from walk. Have water. And papers..
so here I go, grading as I write and enjoy some time to self. Done with papers.. want to be in classroom in 9 minutes, and also need a coffee after the heat took what energy I had. So what now, back...
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I will let NO ONE dictate my pace. EVER.
On campus, in the adjunct cell, with my “lunch” if you could call it that. Haven’t told the department yet about my 1A, only ‘cause I wanted to come directly here to write, but I’m more than ever...
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