I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
‘Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
Those veins must soon be dry;
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.’
‘Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,’ I cried.
‘My friends are gone, but that’s a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily [...]
Archive for May, 2008
29 May
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
28 May
Agora phobia
For the past thirty-six hours I have been dreading my Yahoo e-mail. It’s an account I opened ten years ago to handle internet purchases and the various stuff I signed up for in the heady youthful days of the internets. So what could have happened to make me start dreading the messages in this account [...]
16 May
Lucky Jane Talks with the Postal Carrier
I met the Postal Carrier on the road, and much said she and I.
She has been delivering my mail since my arrival in Funky City, where mail must be delivered on foot, because curbside mailboxes are not Funky. I adore her. We chat whenever we meet, though not so much of late because of my [...]
14 May
Senior moments
Befitting my moniker, I had the tremendous luck of drawing the first final exam time of Spring ‘08, as well as the last. As I graded the results of the latter yesterday, I found myself getting weepily nostalgic. Truth be told (and don’t tell anyone), I was getting nostalgic even as I was collecting the [...]
8 May
I am a maCHINE
Oh yeah. In a fifteen-hour sitting, I have graded 38 papers. Each was 2000 words long (though a few of the Fs were short by a substantial margin). For each I’ve filled in a rubric and typed up a 300- to 500-word paragraph of summary comments. In six hours I will trade these for 38 [...]
6 May
The Clap
That’s what my last class of Spring ‘08 gave me this afternoon, at the end of another quiet term at JPU. I hope it goes without saying that this is not the kind of clap caused by unseemly contact with my charges, but the kind that worries and confuses me and makes me perhaps even [...]
