Hello Ms. Mentor, thank you for the advice |
At the present moment, it is 10:54 AM. I have been up since 9:21 AM. Since waking up and making coffee, I have read 12 reasonably sized articles by "Ms. Mentor," a columnist for The C...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:14:00 GMT |
I’m a PhD student, WHAT?! |
Essentially, I am INSANE in the MEMBRANE.Here is why:Yesterday, I was accepted into LSU’s PhD program in English with major funding, a free ride, and a teaching position. Dear Lord, I am a...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:47:00 GMT |
Uniform, White, and You Hear It Forever. |
When reading Don Delillo's White Noise, I made sure to dog-ear the section in which Jack and Babette Gladney discuss Babette's fear of death and observe exactly what that death might be. Babette...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:18:00 GMT |
"Hope" spelt with a "D." |
All the way from Maine, purple blue-blown glass shaped like some sort of spiral with that perfect word across the bottom, "HOPE." He had no idea what he was giving me, but it was the perfect Chr...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:07:00 GMT |
Wine Glasses are Eyeglasses for 1:57 AM Blogs |
As I leave the Art Bar, I realize how incredibly strange it is to be driving back to Columbia College. For some reason, arriving, parking, and living at the school just didn't fit for the moment...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT |
Whirling |
It was an accident. The most perfect accident.
I am printing copies of my notes on Anne Sexton and her poem "Her Kind." Busy, busy, busy as always, the world around me is lost in a ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:50:00 GMT |
The Article that Started Many, Many, Heated Discussions |
The other day, Dr. Mike Broome of the Columbia College English Department approached me with a question, "Brigman, do you know where I could find the most recent issue of the Post Script?" I told...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:15:00 GMT |
Notes from a "Subversive" College Student |
I normally don't blog back-to-back, but this time around, I think I have something to say.
Columbia College (my current undergraduate institution) is undergoing some serious press about the cur...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:40:00 GMT |
Blame It All On William... |
Smacking his brown plastic feet down against the hard surface of my desk, I yell, "TELL ME TO DO MY HOMEWORK! TELL ME TO WRITE THIS PAPER!" at my William Shakespeare action figure. More and more...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:18:00 GMT |
I was tired of the heartbreak of things.... |
We have curious ideas of our hearts.We think of our hearts as houses with love in them, or a house with a heart in it, or a house with potentous parts in it. The years drink up the wine, and at ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:19:00 GMT |
