October, 2008

  1. Fin de semaine!

    October 12, 2008 by ms. xandra

    Oh, what a funny weekend it has been (please note that the “weekend” starts on Thursday night in these here parts.  Don’t let anyone ever tell you that graduate school is a bad idea).  Here is a largely disconnected list detailing said funniness:

    1.  As a result of boys and dead German philosophers, this weekend I have been taking a page from my dearest role model, Ms. Dot Parker, and have been rather excessively into the drink.  Thursday night was “let’s get drunk and watch movies and cry!” night and Friday night was “let’s get drunk and eat a gigantic pizza with friends!” night and last night was “let’s have one glass of red wine, try to get some work done, fail, and then fall asleep!” night.  Tonight I am limiting myself things that are only as strong as tea.

    2.  Yesterday was an amazing day!  Yesterday Shelina and I went to Guerilla Fest and heard bands play in parking lots and pumpkin patches and oil fields and made friends and found out about little hipstery performing arts spaces that I didn’t know existed and people gave us rides home and sandwiches and copies of their album and it was generally a great day and I think we are starting a band.

    3.  Lynda Carter (that would be Wonder Woman), who is, depressingly, terrifyingly Republican, has some surprisingly super things to say about how awful Sarah Palin is!

    4.  If one more student emails me and is all like “I didn’t do last week’s discussion assignment because I forgot/am confused/was busy/am a dumbass, can I post it today and still get credit,” I am gonna, like, punch someone in the face with my fists of justice.

    And I was going to include other things on this list, but having re-read what I’ve written, I think that it’s pretty important that I close with the phrase “fists of justice.”


  2. Sad! vs. Super!

    October 9, 2008 by ms. xandra

    1.  I kissed a boy and I liked it!  Too bad he is seeing someone else, which is, you know, pretty annoying.  Granted, he was honest about it and not a horrible human being like some people I have dated, so he gets big ups for that.  And I’m disappointed but, oh well.  It’ll be fine.  But do you know what I would like?  I would just like for someone I know to just hook me up with someone and for it to just work.  That is what I would like.  I am tired of effort, guesswork, despair, and the consequent hangovers.  Probably there will be one of those tomorrow because tonight I invented a little drink I like to call the “Is this seriously all the booze there is in the house?” which is made out of Grand Marnier and lemon mineral water.

    2.  One of my rock and roll students is writing her paper about the movie Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, which is an excellent film that I enjoy inflicting upon as may people as possible, so, you know, that sort of warms my heart and makes me glad.


  3. Oh, goodness.

    October 7, 2008 by ms. xandra

    There is just so much going on in my life right now that if I stop to think about it I will probably dissolve into hysterical laughter and/or tears, but not, like, sad tears, more like, “everything is ridiculous so here is an outpouring of no emotion in particular” tears.

    So I think that tomorrow I will go for lunch at the Apple Pan.  I might not even have a cheeseburger.  I might just have cherry pie (Official Food of Wishing My Eyebrows Looked Like Audrey Horne’s).

    Also, I’m sort of obsessed right now with Jimmy Scott‘s cover of Nothing Compares 2 U, which we listened to in class the other day.  Jimmy Scott is a jazz singer who has Kallmann syndrome, as a result of which, his voice never changed at puberty.  And his performance of that song is the most heartbreaking, lovely thing I have heard in ages.