http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/ Hey Smilin' strange, You lookin' happily deranged en-us 2005-09-06T21:18:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/026512.html So, I have to be honest and say that it has been one doozy of a week. I am infuriated with the response our government has had to the hurricane; I am angered at Barbra Bush’s announcement that for many... Biking woodw032 2005-09-06T21:18:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/026230.html I went to the bike shop today with a friend who is looking to get a bike after not having had one for awhile. He fits the demographic of people who come into bike shops around here quite well; he... Biking woodw032 2005-08-31T22:02:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/026152.html Tomorrow classes start and I am rather nervous. Part of me finds this funny because I have been teaching this area for a long time and co-taught these classes last year, so the only real change this year is teaching... Holy Hell I am a teacher woodw032 2005-08-29T23:05:33-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025953.html So nothing in the world can remind one of the feelings of being an errant high school kid much like attending an all-school faculty meeting. For a little over 2 hours today I sat in a huge auditorium with many... Bad teacher woodw032 2005-08-22T21:46:52-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025887.html Yesterday was the new faculty orientation and I was confronted with way too many decisions concerning things I know very little about. First, I had to pick my annuity fund. That wasn't terribly difficult since I had sone some research... Being Old woodw032 2005-08-20T23:48:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025757.html Things feel disjointed today and my stomach has ached since the middle of last night when I woke up in thought. Today has just been an ongoing movement of things feeling not quite right.... woodw032 2005-08-17T00:30:47-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025708.html I think that the boy secretly slipped the catnip form of LSD into Dae's bowl last night, because today has just been a bonanza of bizzarre cat behaviors. I was woken up numerous times by her coming into the bedroom... woodw032 2005-08-15T21:49:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025663.html The cat and I are suprisingly similar -- both of us like to sleep around people who are awake. Dae will come up to where I am working and fall asleep a few feet away. If I get up to... woodw032 2005-08-14T16:48:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025661.html I got home Friday night and everything since then has had the wonderful feeling of being slightly drunk and perfectly okay with the world, or involving way too much adulthood. Yesterday as soon as I awoke from jetlagged stupor, we... woodw032 2005-08-14T16:35:48-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025529.html I just wrote a long post about my mother's new book that I am reading, which explicitly details my grandmother's suicide. I had written a long, involved, fairly well written post on the nature of the other and distance, but... woodw032 2005-08-10T02:00:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025420.html I am ready to be home. For the last few days I am almost constantly reminded that I am (thankfully) no longer in college and no longer debating. I do not worry about what classes to take, getting a good... woodw032 2005-08-07T02:00:19-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025401.html Which is "Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase diplomatic and economic pressure on the People's Republic of China in one or more of the following areas: trade, human rights, weapons nonproliferation, Taiwan. " Pressure pushing down on... Pop-Culture Madness woodw032 2005-08-06T01:28:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025400.html Before you do anything else, you should go read this. Star Wars captions. I have only a week left at camp and though I have finally (after 2 weeks here), started working hard, I am still very ready to go... Lots of Random Nothingness woodw032 2005-08-06T01:23:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025394.html From my Simpsons quote genrator in Dashboard Lisa: "Nuke the whales? You don't really believe that do you?" Nelson: "I dunno. Gotta nuke something."... woodw032 2005-08-05T17:12:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/woodw032/main/025279.html Today is chock-full of rounds for this kids and I am seeing my third round of the day. It is between two novice teams and they are slightly happless but pretty damn cute, in the "AWW puppy" sort of way.... woodw032 2005-08-03T19:00:02-06:00