My brain is having trouble getting jumpstarted this morning – I’m hoping this yummy hazelnut coffee from Bagel Bagel will kick in and soon. I’m having a few random thoughts this morning so bear with me.
My life would be slightly easier if every place that sold coffee to go would get the lids with the plastic opening that pulls back and attaches to the lid itself. This way, you don’t have it hitting you on the nose and getting in the way.
I watched a movie called Immortel the other night. Well, I caught the last 20 minutes. I had heard of it because it has Thomas Kretschmann in it, the guy who played the ship captain in Peter Jackson’s King Kong. This was a very trippy sci-fi adventure which I would like to catch from the beginning sometime. Because it was weird!
I know this will sound weird but I never saw Armageddon. But it happened to be on TV last night. I remember being in maybe, 3rd grade, and writing that I wanted to be an astronaut. Um, no. I believe I renig on that now. Space scares me. More like, the vastness of it, the uncertainty, really boggles my mind. And maybe boggles is too lax of a word. It f’n freaks me out. Imagine getting sucked out into space and just floating around until you died. God, it just irks the hell outta me. But the movie made me cry – because I’m sappy like that – and I am glad I finally got around to seeing it. Oh, and I didn’t realize that everyone and their mom was in that movie too; even Jason Isaacs, now known for his role in Harry Potter. Yeah well, I liked him back when he was the evil Cnl. Tavington in The Patriot.
I have to meet with 12 of my students today to discuss their first paper. I’m going to limit them to 10 minutes though – since I already read draft 1. I like the first conference because I get to know them a little better and they understand me more as a teacher and as a person. Kids just out of high school still have that mentality that teachers aren’t really people with lives and love and hobbies. They maintain a safe distance from the personal. But in college, that all changes. And in grad school, you can even have a beer with a teacher. Wow, I bet that blows their minds.
Happy Monday guys – be happy, be positive, and remember: October is just around the corner. And October rocks.
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October does rock, especially when in Florida, September still feels like freakin’ July. Good luck with meeting with your students. I’m going that next week about research proposals.
Sounds like a blast – we haven’t gotten to the research yet. But soon!
I love Jason Isaacs in the Potter movies. Very yummy in a prickley sort of way.
I still hide behind a window of propriety with my professors, which is unfortunate. There are several that I admire as people, not just a part of the educational institution, but I don’t know if there is an appropriate way to begin such friendships. So, I stick to taking their classes because that is where everyone relates comfortably.
Yay for October!
I note the you read my blog pretty regularly and comment every once in awhile. I ought to entitle it “Insights into the Mind of a Tortured Meathead” but I am afraid that I am not yet meat-headed enough to warrant such a title.
I actually liked Armageddon. I know that is scary for a guy to admit, but I did. I severely disliked the “pillow-talk scene” (largely because I like to pretend that I do not do such things for a girl… but, much to my chagrin, I will admit to it, here, on the world-wide web), but I liked Buscemi’s character the best. Comic relief in the form of psychotic genius. Brilliant!
I concur that October is quite a nice month. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Lourve are beginning their “exchange” and I will get the chance to see some “high-falutin” art that has been locked away for years in sealed French basements!
At least you get some decent art. Granted, Tallahassee got a few Warhols once, but we’re pretty low on the pole for famous works. Oh, and thanks for reading!