They Say It's Spring: Lounge LC Thread
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so odd we hippies burn hell against the likes of elle and other exploitive teen magazines
You mean Tiger Beat
t-beat the magazine wasn't frequently available during my early teens
but also do not question or doubt the importance of whatever emotions you may have experienced with your own personal copies
granted you peck, carry, bogart, and willingly hold on to that joint without sharing until thinking you're home free
Big win for the Celtics tonight. At least we get to see one more game.
Been a hard core Celtics fan ever since I started to watch them with my grandmother when I was seven years old.
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Big win for the Celtics tonight. At least we get to see one more game.
Been a hard core Celtics fan ever since I started to watch them with my grandmother when I was seven years old.
The O'Brien Trophy window is closed for the current group, You know it; I know it; THEY know it - but, last night they played with the heart of champions. It was a good night for the franchise.
Highly recommended if you haven't seen it yet:
Nine episodes that build to an emotional finale - at least for Celtics fans.
Rivalry week in MLB. All of the local teams are playing each other. For the White Sox these are the only games that matter! Thay have been playing a little better since he new Pope came in 😀 But losing right now 6-3 to the dreaded Cubs :( But its at Wrigley with the wind blowing out so anything can happen!
Graduation last night. Disappointing that so few faculty attend because it's enjoyable to see our community college students graduate. So many students of all ages who are here in RI from all over.
Out of over forty full time faculty in our department, ten showed up. But eight out of ten went out for dinner after, so we enjoyed ourselves.
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Graduation last night. Disappointing that so few faculty attend because it's enjoyable to see our community college students graduate. So many students of all ages who are here in RI from all over.
Out of over forty full time faculty in our department, ten showed up. But eight out of ten went out for dinner after, so we enjoyed ourselves.
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Graduations suck. Long, boring, stupid! Last weekend my Nephew got his doctorate and my Brother-in Law, Nephew, and Nephews son went to the ceremony. It was an online type of deal so they had to make a long road trip out to Virginia. Verdict was it was long, boring and stupid 😀 I never regretted skipping my grad school graduation. Just send me the diploma, thank you very much! Iv'e has too many graduations. Grade school, high school, college, boot camp, Officers candiate school, Surface Warfare Officer school, Grad school. Grad school was the one that was the one that had no repercussions for skipping so I jumped on that opportunity 😀
Side note: The speaker at my Surface Warfare School graduation was Admiral Stockdale. Famously Ross Perots running mate.
Walking through the parking lot of the preschool by my house today, there was a balloon tied to the fence for "Happy Graduation".
Sigh.
Nothing like a pre-school graduation. Ugh!
I skipped my three college graduations. High school graduation was fun.
But I really do enjoy our graduations. You see people in their sixties, young students who didn't speak or write English until they came to the US, and so many first generation graduates.
And I also had the opportunity to announce about 400 students twice at graduation. (Needed to practice names like Olufunlali Ofulabi.)
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seems a lack of faculty attendance at community college graduations speaks volumes about administrative influence
Yay Knicks!
Sorry, John, but I've been a low-key Knicks fan since my Dad used to take me to MSG to see Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley, Willis Reed, and Dave DeBusscher.
You forgot Cazzie Russell. Please don't make this mistake again.
seems a lack of faculty attendance at community college graduations speaks volumes about administrative influence
I doubt that's the case with most of them, but certainly an us/them mindset exists.
Having spent four years as an administrator, I know most complaints about administration are unfounded although some are valid.
Mostly, though, poor faculty attendance can be blamed on faculty not caring to celebrate our students, those same faculty who maintain that students are our main concern.
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The other day I heard a story on the radio that was saying older people are making up a more significant portion of the college-level students. Apparently people retiring and want to pursue something new.
Do you see that, John (or anyone else who's in secondary education)?
Last night, played in my group's season-ending poker tournament. Was quite tired and not playing well, I think I ended about 18/27. But it was fun, always good to see the gang.
Get home, thinking I'll check out TV, then go to bed. First thing I see is Aretha telling Matt he's not going out on the road, playing in those two-bit, sleazy dives with his white hoodlum friends.
OK, I guess I'll stay up a while.
i've always been a fan of paying a little bit of money (or nothing) to become a little smarter about something
Onions
By William Matthews
How easily happiness begins by
dicing onions. A lump of sweet butter
slithers and swirls across the floor
of the sauté pan, especially if its
errant path crosses a tiny slick
of olive oil. Then a tumble of onions.
This could mean soup or risotto
or chutney (from the Sanskrit
chatni, to lick). Slowly the onions
go limp and then nacreous
and then what cookbooks call clear,
though if they were eyes you could see
clearly the cataracts in them.
It’s true it can make you weep
to peel them, to unfurl and to tease
from the taut ball first the brittle,
caramel-colored and decrepit
papery outside layer, the least
recent the reticent onion
wrapped around its growing body,
for there’s nothing to an onion
but skin, and it’s true you can go on
weeping as you go on in, through
the moist middle skins, the sweetest
and thickest, and you can go on
in to the core, to the bud-like,
acrid, fibrous skins densely
clustered there, stalky and in-
complete, and these are the most
pungent, like the nuggets of nightmare
and rage and murmury animal
comfort that infant humans secrete.
This is the best domestic perfume.
You sit down to eat with a rumor
of onions still on your twice-washed
hands and lift to your mouth a hint
of a story about loam and usual
endurance. It’s there when you clean up
and rinse the wine glasses and make
a joke, and you leave the minutest
whiff of it on the light switch,
later, when you climb the stairs.
evocative ode to allium
now do it again with garlic
