dang

Readership has been declining steadily since January... and I want to know WHY DAMNIT WHY! TELL ME I WANT TO SELL OUT AND BE LOVED AND ADORED AND HAVE A BOOK DEALING AND WEB FOLLOWING AND LIKE MYSPACE FANCLUB.

[deep breath]

(one suspects its useless posts like this that are pushing people away. ah well.)

poss eye bility sev hen

Q. -

Yeah, its a homage to David Forster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous men.

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Ok, more of a borrowing than a homage.

Q. -

Ok, its a ripoff. Are you happy now, huh, huh?

Q. -

No. Well, sure, maybe.

Q. -

Not quite sure if I'd use that word exactly. Perhaps heinous instead.

Q. -

Delusions of significance perhaps.

Q. -

Well, I used to do this kind of experimental prose writing when I was a teenager.

Q. -

I'm not sure. It coincided with me stopping to write poetry.

Q. -

Embrassment, I think.

Q. -

Shame?

[...]

Q. -

Yeah, even now... especially now.

Q. -

Sometimes it feels like I'm trying to unclog my own emotional plumbing; which I blocked up in the first place.

Q. -

Yeah, shame I guess.

Q. -

I dunno? They're alienating for a lot of people, I think, especially.

Q. -

(Yeah, he's working on it today. We'll see something this afternoon.)

Sorry.

[...]

Q. -

Yeah, expression alienates. People want to believe its neat and tidy and can be gotten over.

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Yeah, ugly.

Q. -

That's probably true.

Q. -

Well, I'm worried that once the clog is unclogged, shit is going to go everywhere. Ten years of repressed refuse bubbling into the open.

Q. -

Good question.

Q. -

No, I'm not avoiding answering it.

Q. -

It was simply a statement; a simple statement.

Q. -

No, fuck you - you tell me more about your mother.

emotional hook

I think I may just discovered the emotional hook for my script, my way in:

Haunted by the future.

Let's see if it sticks...

possibilité numéro

quatre.

Mistaking cynicism for wisdom and employing self-sabotage to validate this worldview.

cinq.

Because its easier than a leap of faith.

six.

Subconsciously.

Time to stop.

top the lap ban

... a law professor in the US who has instituted a 'lap top ban' for her classes, in the belief that they detract from the learning/pedagogical experience. Kerr has a full explanation from the Law Prof of the policy, and a long, interesting comment thread with some academics but many, many students chiming in on their views of the policy and the role of laptops in law school classroom.

[...]

I've often wondered about the possibility of taking 'moments' in class - where you want the students to focus on solving a particular problem, or to think about the application - of asking students to put their screens down for some limited period. In the right circumstances, it could work. But I've not tried it yet.

-- Banning Laptops from Law School classrooms via Weatherall's Law

Weird. I always felt like a total fucking tool when I used my laptop in my law classes... even when I was external and thus surrounded by mature, working students. I would be the only student in a class of 30 with a laptop. This was 2003-2004. How things have changed, eh?

Personally, I like Kim's idea but think it should be just a 'drop pens' rule. "We are going to drop pens, not take any notes, and just talk, ok?"

Anywho. Back to scheduling. Hmm. Work on a Sunday afternoon.