My friend Marvin read my post on “Male Sexuality and the Ogle” and came up with a poem titled Doggerel on a Theme from Eclexys.
Author: gordsellar
My Crazy Day
Today was a day of relentless little disasters; shoelaces tearing on the way out of the house, dropped containers, stubbed toes, malfunctioning CD-burners, a whole restaurant mysteriously torn down, a surprising lack of cherry blossoms, foolish restaurant orders, dangling jacket buttons, all capped off with a shocking movie experience. And it was also wonderful, and happy, and good.
Exhaustion and Relief
It’s funny. Yesterday morning I met one of my cool friends downtown for a coffee before work. I normally never meet anyone before lunch, partly because of my work schedule, and partly because nobody ever seems interested in meeting in the morning. So it was something different, anyway. But our conversation is a clue to something: one of the first things we talked about was how we both felt incredibly tired. Well, after coffee and lunch, I headed to work. Work was alright, I suppose. My classes were mostly okay. The theology/travel-tourism kids tried a little harder this time, and …
More April Foolery
Gord: “Hey Dad, what time is it there?” Dad: “Uh, 4:30am.” Gord: “Oh, damn, sorry. I didn’t mean to wake you.” Dad: “It’s okay. What’s up?” Gord: “Well… I don’t know how to say this… uh, I’m going to just come out and say it. I guess.” Dad: “What?” Gord: “You know how Marie’s pregnant? And you thought Marie was gonna give you your first grandchild?” Dad: “Yeah.” Gord: “Well… wrong.” Dad: “What?” Gord: “Um… she’s not the first. It’s me.” Dad: (serious tone)”When?” Gord: “Um… last week. I didn’t know.” Dad: “I see.” Gord: “I don’t know what I’m …
A Conversation I Had In Class Today…
Translated from Korean: Gord: Why is your homework the same as his? Student: It’s not. Gord (from one book): “I live is by red house and one is sister. I live near The World Cup Stadium. My house so is very good.” (from other book) “I live is by red house and two is brother. I live near The World Cup Stadium. My house so is very good.” Student: It’s different. One sister, two brother. Different. Gord: Do I look stupid to you? Student: No. Gord: It’s the same homework. Student: We’re neighbours. Gord: So you did your homework together …
Baewugoshipneun geotdeuleun (Things I Want To Learn)
The Friday Five for this week comes from the fingertips of the illustrious Adrienne: If time and money were infinite, what are the five things you’d love to learn how to do? Which of these do you think you’ll do anyway, no matter what the economic and temporal restraints are? It’s a tough question, because of course there are zillions of things I would like to learn. I hope I’m not cheating by the way I answer this. I’m going to assume a couple of things: that sets of things are acceptable, like languages categorized in one set, since I …
One Hour Doesn’t Seem Enough
Not for my LEC class. Ah well, the exercises do at least result in some interesting discussion. But I am working on ways to streamline the exercises to make sure students spend more time practicing useful structures and less time constructing way too complicated structures wrong in an attempt to “speak really well”. Ah, the endless challenge. I think I also have this problem in Korean. I guess I need a teacher to kick my ass into following simple useful structures when I sray, to get me into the habit. At least for now… Ah, the endless struggle of study…
Two April Fool’s SMS Conversations
Some of this is translated from Korean. My sorta-ex-girlfriend messaged me first: “Gord! Guess what! I’m going abroad in one month!” “Really?” “Yeah. I will go to Australia.” “How long?” “Maybe one year, or two. And Gord… I miss you. T.T” [T.T is a sad face—tears streaming down from eyes on either side of a little closed mouth] “Ah! That’s great! It’s good for you!” “But don’t you miss me?” (Awkwardly, somewhat obviously saying a white lie to spare her feelings:) “Um… uh… a little, I guess.” “Gord, I’m disappointed with you. Do you know what day it is today?” …
Life This Week
Life’s been so busy lately, and I forgot my computer plug at the office last night so I actually got something approaching a decent amount of sleep. But I didn’t get to post. So last night, I taught until 6:30pm. Then, I killed time at the office waiting to meet a student who wanted to get some help revising her speech for a speech contest. It’s not something I do everyday, but this kid is a really good student and I want to encourage that kind of thing, so I agreed to meet her. We worked until about 8pm, and …
Cox & Forkum
I linked to this in a previous post, but I think it’s worth highlighting by itself anyway… actually, I find their politics repugnant at times, but at other times I can’t help but think they’re not completely wrong… here’s a blog of political cartoons by Cox & Forkum.