Me: This is how I’ve been for days. Just holed up in my apartment watching The L Word and drinking tea. Reminding myself to not overexert or I get exhausted and feverish.Donta: OK Proust.
Author: Jesse Rice-Evans
Tired and hydrated disabled lesbian, Educational Technologist, and digital humanist into medical rhetorics, Pokémon, harm reduction, and mutual aid
Taped Faces
Totally into these Taped Faces. Making the everyday strange.
Tower
When I wrote my poetry thesis, it felt like everyone else was writing about Greek mythology, getting drunk at house parties, and repressed childhood memories. Now I can’t go anywhere without seeing a themed journal about magic and astrology. Or, perhaps stranger, at the Lucky Funeral reading in Asheville a few weeks back, JD Scott read Tarot poems…… Continue reading Tower
Snow
It just started snowing. My iPhone weather app is such a liar.
Work
How do I apply for jobs in a city that I’ve never visited? I have to rely so heavily upon the internet and the integrity of the two-page document by which potential employers may gauge my abilities. I feel uneasy about leaving anything up to others, but are my resume and cover letter others? Or…… Continue reading Work
Journal
A writing consultant just mentioned journaling. I admit that I have a terrible memory. I should journal, just like I should keep a dream diary and a biorhythmic chart. I know he’s right. I would journal on the computer since I am on the internet all day long, but I always want to talk about…… Continue reading Journal
Statements
Been consumed by my personal statement. Decided, almost whimsily, to apply to a graduate English program in Seattle. Thinking a lot about what I can and cannot plan for when we travel so far west. Saving money. Wondering where it will come from next. Trying to refresh my memory of the course I taught as an…… Continue reading Statements
Thoughts on Indigenous Peoples Day
If any of y’all Americans are still celebrating Columbus Day, you need to get a grip and go read a book. Howard Zinn, “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” the internet. Here’s a good start: Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) – The Oatmeal.
Candles Galore
Helping a friend sell candles downtown. The gentleman at the booth next to me sounds 100% like an android. Also, tourists don’t know how to read parking meters! Good thing I brought my research bag: almonds, mate, legal pads, and 200 pages of postcolonial goodies.
What We’re Reading: October 2013 – Identity Theory
What We’re Reading: October 2013 – Identity Theory. Lots of delicious literature y’all.
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