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e hit of the evening this was the first thanksvegan in my own house and therefore i had no friends to really get nervous with gz usually leaves me to simmer in my own nerves on such occassions i usually take two showers spend an hour getting dressed changing my clothes taking off my makeup putting said clothes back on and then finally opening a bottle of wine and reapply my makeup into a bit of a devil may care expression parties like this make me nervous because inevitably there are many people whom i have invited whom i m not quite sure i like i invite them out of some miss manners sense of hospitality and then have to bite my tong ue when they show up with one plate and say yeah i didn t bring anything to your potluck except this plate but you can keep the plate the plate is usually one of those disgustingly plastic ones that may have at one point been red but seems to have become a dark shade of salmon it usually still has a few spots of brown crusty gunk on it from the thrift store or perhaps the person s inability to wash dishes properly i can only assume that s he had pulled it out of the trunk only moments before i grimace an insincere thank you and take a list out of my pocket 0n which to write this person s name later when i am by myself i divide the group into the invite again list and the shun in social situations list inevitably the latter is longer than the former and i have to take back all of those feelings of hatred that i have toward that person and send out another invitation the next year but i do it with a proud sense of reservation yet another characteristic of these parties is the inclusion of the crap dish and the local crazy boyfriend that happened to wander in because i forgot to ask probing questions the crap dish of thanksvegans past 1 crackers 2 carrots still in bag 3 warm carrots that were warm because they were sitting in a car all day 4 cheap store bought hummus that had been half eaten by the time it arrived 5 non vegan onion dip 5 non vegetarian soup 6 a plate there of course is always the i didn t bring anything group i m really torn on how to feel about this group they are much like the i didn t wear a costume group at the costume party s he will show up twenty minutes late empty handed except for the beer that s he brought for him herself and will proceed to eat as much as possible on the upside i feel free to blanket the person with as much derision as i please i am still unsure as to how i should feel about people who do not bring food to a potluck one year the night ended in some random hippie guy running through the living room with pretend horns on his head in imitation of an animal whose name i cannot recall he caused about half the party to relocate to a bedroom with a lock many took shelter in the room and refused to come out until the guy left his friend had spent the entire evening telling me that i would die if i traveled anywhere into mexico but the next year my boyfriend brought a dead mummified dog from the attic and onto the front porch thereby frightening most attendees most of these guests did not return the next year i belive that i will begin preparing for thanksvegan tonight recipes will follow posted by imogene at 11 16 am no comments labels thanksgiving vegan thursday november 05 2009 lolita with a pen knife i ve been away for quite some time obviously for the most part i ve been attempting to make some sense of how to throw myself into all of the separate parts of my life without transmogrifying myself into a lost sense of self or at the very least losing a finger so i ve decided to give this the old college try just in the non traditional student type of way i m now teaching english as a second language through my local university and i think i might have decided to stop caring yesterday most of my class trouble seemed to start around the day that i decided to buy new glasses i have large orange glasses now when i tried them on for the first time the lady at the eye doctor s office said to me you know when i looked at these i wasn t sure that you would be able to pull them off but look at you you re doing it she then motioned for her fellow employees to come over and take a look at how well i was wearing the glasses they ooo ed and ahh ed at appropriate times gesturing and nodding at my face glad that betsy had brought them over to see the new glasses one girl looked at me and then looked away i wondered if perhaps she thought that the glasses were ugly i wondered if she was thinking to herself that i should have stuck with my old scratched up glasses because now i looked like some extra from twin peaks rather than look at them all i chose to watch a young man who across the room was trying on his new glasses quietly looking at himself in the narrow mirrors turning left then right left then right posted by imogene at 4 36 pm no comments thursday december 07 2006 lambasting and the dead kennedys blogging i suppose that this is the moment when i should evaluate my place in all of this racey bloggetry and tie my ideas into those of barton in all of his rational critical debate all the while publicly openly using this public sphere in an attempt to sythezize my thoughts on the matter this won t be an epiphany entry i assure you dear reader so stop shuddering what is the future of rational critical debate can it be left up to the at large public to set up a self policing system for the internet the internet can serve either to reflect in every institution the logic of modern production or enable the flexible testing of possibilities and the development of the new not hierarchical and standardization but variety and growth of the capacities required to live in a more complex world i enjoy the idea of rational critical debate because it hints to me of that sometimes elusive productivity within a discussion session but can the public really operate with a non hierarchical system set up for communication and the distribution of ideas when i ask that question i m not asking if people can operate under a non hierarchical system but rather will it actually happen it seems that the idea of unrestrained freedom will begin to run into walls after a time someone will want to be able to own the popular idea it becomes pop culture owned by the rich and displayed on a mantle piece to me right now the internet is rebellious pop culture destined to go the way of the dead kennedys or cindy lauper except for the strength of the public so i guess what i m pondering around is that while i m not a huge fan of blogging and i don t have much experience or faith in the wiki at least we have it we have the option to contribute and correct and question we as a pubic have the right to our opinions and the right to post them no matter how crazy insightful or inane the web has become our own interpretive project posted by imogene at 6 24 am no comments saturday november 25 2006 wild purple roses and gnarly sticks and one of those electric can openers from ge what are we likely to carry with us when we ask that our relationship with all technologies should be like that we have with the technology of printed words what is the technology of printed words does this technology pertain to comprehension of writing in a technology based medium or does it merely delineate the dividing line between engine ering of thought and the human ity of thought the idea of computers in the writing classroom is one that has been lit upon a few times this semester dusted discussed in brief and tossed aside and stored under the idea of academic progression my point of weapons isn t to chose a side in this argument diss ent con cussion it s merely to dazed bleary eyed stare at a screen through glasses which have been tinted so that i don t get a headache from the glare and think about what i am doing right now think about what i m posing posturing about the computer in the writing classroom could be seen as that annoying machine in the garden get it out it s ruining the ambiance of my nature al state i want to pull the weeds myself i want to till the land with my own scuffling tools until my hands become too dirty until my fingers are sore until i can t bend anymore then i retire to the sidelines to straighten my back to take off my gloves to put down my trowel upon my straightening my eyes regard intellect opinions fall again light upon that horrid machine gleaming in my organic primitivism it s a challenge we intelligentsia bow to progress with the lowered gaze of respect shame we ac knowledge what we are confronted with in this our organic classroom the room of holistic rubric as if that structure could be defined as such we cover our structure with the bright blooms of the moon flowers and the marigolds we cover the engine and the battery and the blades with sunflowers we drape our beautiful green ivy over the imposing steel we tried to adapt we try to use equal amounts of nature in our gardens but it is so easy to not dig by hand it is so easy to not use a pen click click click the scratches of the pen quill trowel are drowning in the marching tap of technology my hands won t be as calloused this spring no one will be able to tell how much i love my garden my potatoes my lettuce my corn but maybe i liked that my hands were sore maybe i liked that my muscles ached and that i had to spend hours in the blinding suffocating sun so that i could get the radishes in on time maybe that s why i plant my garden every year machine in the garden computers in the composition classroom posted by imogene at 6 32 pm no comments friday november 17 2006 i ve had a few days to think about what i wrote in class on wednesday and for the most part i ve decided that i don t really believe a word that i said wrote sure a teaching pedagogy is good to have it s good to identify yourself as having a certain type of teaching slant my fellow teachers i define myself as skew expressionist well class i lean subjectivly from my podium with just the smallest bit of objectivism for the grade assignation ability you understand should teachers really be content to pick a category and shoot for that aren t most decisions made arbitrarily in the first place based on the strength of a wind gust and whether or not a penny lands heads up i guess what i m stuck on is how we the royal we as teachers decide to teach or maybe how much of our learning style is pushed upon students i personally cannot stand fill in the blank therefore i will not teach it i would honestly like to type that i m a subjective teacher i would like to say that i change my mind constantly based upon every situation how horrible would that be would that be any better than looking at an essay and taking off ten points because one aspect of the mla format was not used i suppose consistence is a good idea consistency and clarity maybe i also suppose that i don t really know what my teaching pedagogy is maybe i get aggravated by the fact that i should even feel the need desire to be able to say that i identify with one or the other or the other or the other maybe i m assuming that picking a pedagogy has far too many implications i ve taught in one classroom and all i really took from those classes was that i could not teach everyone the same way some people needed specific attention others wanted group work some students couldn t stand to be helped so how do i as a teacher wade my way through that information through the individualized needs of thirty people ages 14 68 does it matter i m aware that all teachers are not inherently bad and neither are they inherently good and that most students aren t going to be ruined for academia simply because s he had a few bad experiences does good teaching require categorization but also can i vin diagram my thoughts in a sincere and unbiased manner posted by imogene at 8 19 pm no comments tuesday october 31 2006 you re right craig i should have said something i ll just write what i was thinking during those fifty minutes and maybe that will make up for some of it this is where we as intellectuals separate splinter and co llapse into our di tri vided subject ivisms i like ol vic you re right class he s not a man of clarity but is that such a bad thing does is everything need to be so c leaved and sapless as to render all readers prostrate with comprehension dare i say no dare i say that no one understands what i understand i wrote in another post when i say horse what do you think of i think of my youngest brother he had laryngitis when he was twelve we spent two weeks making up sign language in order to communicate but mainly to cast aspersions against my older brother when he was in the room of course the words horse and hoarse aren t spelled the same but that just adds something to my definition this individual response is what vitanza is digging for cultivating planting there is a state of individualism that goes into personal thought a state which is influenced by past experiences and vague fugue opines that i as i am not you will never under stand and i suppose that is quite alright because it drives me to try to understand it begs me to take my feelings and combine it with a dozen other thoughts which are floating aimless above my head i think that fuzzy gray condition is the shape spatial arrangement of something as different from its substance trapezoid from which vitanza is stuck and wandering wondering in class we spoke of sophistic argument as being manipulative and lacking a point maybe does it manipulate or simply present sometimes pre suming a unequi vocal answer to any question can be a shameless display of ignorance to expect someone to follow a recipe and an outcome of thought is not proliferating critical cerebration i think that it presents options it urges the reader to come to a conclusion or at least formulate an idea or at the very least think about it some more i honestly believe that vitanza uses the con muddled language because he wants to present something else he wants to present the in fin ite beginning options vitanza uses word play and metaphor to illustrate that every word is subjective and suggestive theyeorize what do you think of that word what does that word entail and presuppose for you the reader thinker its definition changes with each person because how could one person presume to hold the definite definition for any given word for any given emotion he uses political revolutions historical events to incur emotions to foster knowledge to find that lagging attention words foster emotions and the desire to understand so if a confusing sentencial relation makes the reader need to read and re read then maybe that is all he wanted in the first place i m not saying that i know what he was saying in his essay only that he was probably saying quite a few things well anyway that s how i feel about it posted by imogene at 1 05 pm 2 comments friday october 27 2006 le brouillard de l etude the 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