Our litigious society: A warning on a small tractor that reads “Danger: Avoid Death” has been chosen as the nation’s wackiest warning label by an anti-lawsuit group. The $250 second place was given to Carrianne, Jacob and Robby Turin of Greensburg, Pa., for a label they found on an iron-on T-shirt transfer that warns: “Do … Read more
I spent all day on my final paper for ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology, and finished it up around 5:30. Well, the writing’s finished—I can edit something to death, so that remains to be seen. And, I have to do all the citation work for it. Here’s the title: Strategic Rhetorical Language in … Read more
Today is World AIDS Day. Hugs to my beautiful friend Adam who died in August of 2002. I spent the majority of the day holed up in the NCSU campus library, where I had hoped to get a key to one of the two Graduate Student Study Rooms, but both of them were booked all … Read more
I was up at 4:15 and served Irene breakfast consisting of coffee, a hard-boiled egg, a sausage patty, and an English muffin. I dropped her off at the United curbside check-in at 5:35 for her 6:15 flight. Since I was so close to the office, I stopped by IBM, where I converted my Rhetoric and … Read more
I was up and at ’em early, determined to meet my goal of getting a heavy weight off my shoulders today. I caught the bus to campus and spent from 10:00AM to 7:00PM locked up in a graduate study room in the D.H. Hill Library, rewriting my first ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology paper, … Read more
I had my lab work done this morning—in anticipation of my physical which is a week from today, for which all of my lab results will be available. After fingering the crook of my arm for a minute or more, I said to the phlebotomist, “Don’t see anything you like?” She smiled. “This one right … Read more
Here are the last four cards to trickle in, the ones that I mentioned all had women on the covers: From my friend Sharon: Card Front: [Woman (in color) dancing in the middle of the floor of a bar with people (all in black and white) sitting around the dance floor watching her] “As long … Read more
From my parents, they sent two cards: I’ve mentioned before in this blog that my mother is a huge underliner in cards. I’m going to mark up this rendition so that you can see it for yourself. When a word is underlined like this, that means she underlined the word once. When it’s like this(2), … Read more
I slept in this morning. Glorious. I met Myra at Helios for lunch. She brought me a card, a monster Slim Jim, and a gift certificate to Quail Ridge Books & Music. I have such wonderful people in my life. Card synopsis and affirmation: Front: Policeman writing out a ticket. Inside: “Impersonating a young person… … Read more
I know my body is screaming, “What in the hell is going on?” After traveling for 20 hours, and getting to sleep in its own bed, for a glorious 10 hours, it thought it was back on track. And then what do I go and do? Pull an all-nighter. I was awake the entire night, … Read more