i really like teaching teenagers. teenage girls, especially. i first had this experience at Tyler (when i was barely out of my teens myself) when i taught the Weekend Workshop class, a Sunday morning (yes, Sunday morning) pre-college type class where i taught ceramics to a small group of somnolent teenagers. in between chasing them […]
how do i say this without sounding insufferable?
i kind of hate Nantucket.
i have been in an unbelievable funk since i got here. i have tried to logic my brain out of this depression, which works most of the time these days, thanks to a well-worn and hard-won mental pathway that i can force myself down […]
in early March, i went on my first date in two years.
i would have been more of a wreck about it if i wasn’t so busy with school. at that point, i was three weeks away from beginning the install for my MFA show, and i had so much shit on my plate that there […]
from the ferry, the water looks like dark, opaque corrugated glass. the night before was hazy, foggy and humid, and as i drove onto the Cape early this morning, it started to clear. from the window that i sit at now, on my way to the island of Nantucket, i can see no land or […]
i am jealous.
okay, this sounds like the oldest tale in the book of sibling relationships. i am jealous of her. it’s stupid that it took me nearly 29 years on the planet to not only figure this out that this is probably most of the root of the problems in our relationship.
what prompted this? she […]
on Friday, as Alek and i were driving back to his place, a memory suddenly surfaced, something i hadn’t thought about for a long time. i had been thinking about leaving, since i was flying back east the next morning.
“you know,” i said, “i don’t know what made me think of this, but during the […]
when i was in California, Alek and his boyf and i went to see (500) Days of Summer. i don’t go to the movies much, mostly because i live in an area that has no indie theaters, which pretty much all i would bother to see in the theatre anyway. i was mildly interested in […]
i was lucky enough to procure the use of a bike during the two and a half weeks i was in Davis. Davis is an unusually bike-friendly city, not only with bike lanes on every street, but also with dedicated bike paths that wind through many lovely areas, both on campus and off. i had […]
i have had a hard time writing here since i started Tweeting regularly (for those of you who are interested: my twitter feed is here). all my writing has become condensed into 140 characters or less, and i find this vexing. i come from an old, old school of online writing, where once upon a […]
i don’t know how this escaped my notice, but i realized tonight that i have significant amounts of gray hair. i gather that this has been happening for a while, but given that my hair has not been its natural color since around age 17, who knows for sure. my current fauxhawk means that the […]